10 Facts About Eric Hermelin

Eric Axel Hermelin, Baron Hermelin was a Swedish author and prolific translator of Persian works of literature.

Eric Hermelin went with his regiment to India in the following year.

Eric Hermelin was much troubled by disease, and by then his drinking had developed into full-blown alcoholism, possibly in combination with the use of narcotic drugs.

Eric Hermelin turned up in London in the autumn of 1907 and returned to Sweden in early 1908.

Eric Hermelin began as a conservative and patriotic writer of verses, commentaries, and translations in local daily newspapers; but through his reading of, among others, the English socialist Robert Blatchford, he gradually adopted a more liberal and even radical attitude.

Eric Hermelin's first publication was a Swedish translation of an English work by Alexander Whyte on Jakob Bohme.

However, the greatest achievement of Eric Hermelin was his translation of works by Farid al-din 'Attar and Jalal-al-Din Rumi.

Eric Hermelin made liberal use of capitals for emphasis and excelled in some quasi-etymological erroneous conjectures.

In 1943 Eric Hermelin received the Imperial Order of the Lion and the Sun from Masud Ansari, the representative of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in Stockholm.

The film entitled "Sufismen och Eric Hermelin" explores Hermelin's biography, translations of Persian literature as well as his views on literature, religion and politics, and contains interviews with Carl-Goran Ekerwald, Ashk Dahlen, Johan Hermelin och Marika Lagercrantz.