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29 january 1979 laholm , sweden swedish 21 october 1892 alf ahlberg.jpg alf ahlberg
 alf ahlberg writer , humanist and philosopher
alf ahlberg

alf ahlberg -lrb- 21 october 1892 -- 29 january 1979 -rrb- was a swedish writer , humanist and philosopher .
ahlberg was born in 1892 in laholm , sweden , the son of axel ahlberg and anna lindskog , and the brother of the architect hakon ahlberg .
he studied at the university of lund and came to know in particular sigfrid lindstrom and gunnar aspelin .
in the summer he stayed in lund to read schopenhauer in the botanical garden of lund at the foot of aagardhs statue .
he took the mba in 1911 and his ph.d in 1917 with the thesis material problems of platonism : plato , aristotle , plotinus , bruno : a historical-critical study .
later was a senior teacher at a college in stockholm and was a lecturer at the arbetarinstitutet .
in 1927 , he became a teacher at the workers educational institute , brunnsvik , and in 1932 he became the headmaster , which he remained until his retirement in 1959 .
for several years he wrote frequently in the newspaper `` dagens nyheter '' .
in 1933 , he married edith larsson , who died in 1944 .
1946 he remarried with ma rut davidsson .
ahlberg was mainly known for his scientific works on philosophy .
one of the most noted works , '' '' the social and political myths '' '' -lrb- 1937 -rrb- , is about nazi propaganda and mythology .
in '' '' escape from loneliness '' '' -lrb- 1949 -rrb- he investigated why the contemporary citizen is so susceptible to propaganda .
his main work of the '' `` history of philosophy '' '' was excellent as it was the first of its kind and sold in several editions -lrb- the last and fifth revised edition was published in 1967 -rrb- .
in 1935 it was followed up by `` history of psychology '' .
he also wrote several biographies on , for example , augustine , john malmberg , nietzsche and schopenhauer , and made translations of josé ortega y gasset .
