Lars Gyllenhaal
Encyclopedia
Lars Herman Folke Gyllenhaal (born July 9, 1968) is a Swedish
author, mainly writing on military history
and especially on Swedes in 20th century wars. He is the only child of former press counselor to the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Herman Gyllenhaal and nurse Monica Gyllenhaal, née Wennerholm. He is married to Ann-Sofie Gyllenhaal, née Svensson. They have one son and one daughter. He is a member of the Gyllenhaal family
of Swedish nobility
. He lives with his family in Piteå in North Sweden. He was awarded the honor "Citizen of the Year" of Piteå in 2011 for his research in military history.
at the University of Savoy in France
, and Russian
at a language institute in Moscow
, USSR.
Gyllenhaal began writing as a freelance journalist. From 1992 to 1994 he was employed by local government authorities in the Russian county of Murmansk
on the Kola Peninsula
.
He returned to Sweden in 1994 and was recruited by Centek, an industry and management development foundation. He was employed as a project manager at Centek until he left on his own accord in 2000 to become a full-time author specializing in military history and the history of the Barents Region
.
Gyllenhaal has done research work for several documentary films on WWII such as "Krieg in der Arktis" (War in the Arctic) by Jens Becker and Ralf Daubitz and the prize-winning "Blood Road" and "Under a Rusty Star", both by Gunilla Bresky.
Since 2005 he has been an elected member of the Swedish Military History Commission. He has been engaged in the development of the Swedish Defense Museum in Boden
.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
author, mainly writing on military history
Military history
Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships....
and especially on Swedes in 20th century wars. He is the only child of former press counselor to the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Herman Gyllenhaal and nurse Monica Gyllenhaal, née Wennerholm. He is married to Ann-Sofie Gyllenhaal, née Svensson. They have one son and one daughter. He is a member of the Gyllenhaal family
Gyllenhaal family
Gyllenhaal is a Swedish noble family descended from the cavalry Lieutenant Nils Gunnarsson Haal , ennobled in 1652 with a change of surname to Gyllenhaal...
of Swedish nobility
Swedish nobility
The Swedish nobility were historically a legally and/or socially privileged class in Sweden, part of the so-called frälse . Today, the nobility is still very much a part of Swedish society but they do not maintain many of their former privileges...
. He lives with his family in Piteå in North Sweden. He was awarded the honor "Citizen of the Year" of Piteå in 2011 for his research in military history.
Biography
Gyllenhaal studied FrenchFrench language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
at the University of Savoy in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, and Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
at a language institute in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, USSR.
Gyllenhaal began writing as a freelance journalist. From 1992 to 1994 he was employed by local government authorities in the Russian county of Murmansk
Murmansk
Murmansk is a city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It serves as a seaport and is located in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland...
on the Kola Peninsula
Kola Peninsula
The Kola Peninsula is a peninsula in the far northwest of Russia. Constituting the bulk of the territory of Murmansk Oblast, it lies almost completely to the north of the Arctic Circle and is washed by the Barents Sea in the north and the White Sea in the east and southeast...
.
He returned to Sweden in 1994 and was recruited by Centek, an industry and management development foundation. He was employed as a project manager at Centek until he left on his own accord in 2000 to become a full-time author specializing in military history and the history of the Barents Region
Barents Region
The Barents Region is a name given, by political ambition to establish international cooperation after the fall of the Soviet Union, to the land along the coast of the Barents Sea, from Nordland in Norway to the Kola Peninsula in Russia and beyond all the way to the Ural Mountains and Novaya...
.
Honors and awards
In 2005 his book Swedes at War 1914-1945 (co-written with Lennart Westberg) was nominated "Swedish History Book of the Year".Gyllenhaal has done research work for several documentary films on WWII such as "Krieg in der Arktis" (War in the Arctic) by Jens Becker and Ralf Daubitz and the prize-winning "Blood Road" and "Under a Rusty Star", both by Gunilla Bresky.
Since 2005 he has been an elected member of the Swedish Military History Commission. He has been engaged in the development of the Swedish Defense Museum in Boden
Boden, Sweden
Boden is a locality and the seat of Boden Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden with 18,680 inhabitants in 2005.- History :The town of Boden started as a railway junction where the Northern Line met with the Ore Line from the rich iron ore fields in northern Sweden.The town experienced...
.
Works
- Kola - en guide published 1993 by AmuGruppen Norr, ISBN 91-630-2240-0
- Slaget om Nordkalotten (The Battle of the North Calotte), with James F. Gebhardt. ISBN 91-88930-68-8, published 1999 by Historiska Media (first paperback edition 2001) ISBN 91-89442-26-1
- Svenskar i krig 1914-1945 (Swedes at War 1914-1945), with Lennart Westberg. ISBN 91-85057-08-8, published 2004 by Historiska Media
- Svenskar i krig 1914-1945 revised and expanded. Paperback edition published by Historiska Media 2006, ISBN 91-85377-98-5, ISBN 91-85377-98-5.
- Victims, Victors (as the book's editor) by Roman Kravchenko-Berezhnoy, published 2007 by The Aberjona Press, ISBN 0-9717650-6-5
- Elitförband i Norden (Élite military units in the Nordic countries), published 2009 by Fischer & Co. ISBN 978-91-85183-76-0
- Swedes at War - Willing Warriors of a Neutral Nation, 1914-1945, with Lennart Westberg, translated by Carl Gustav Finstrom published 2010 by The Aberjona Press, ISBN 978-0-9777563-1-5
- Tyskar och allierade i Sverige - Svensk krigshistoria i nytt ljus (Germans and Allies in Sweden - Swedish War History in a New Light) Published 2011 by Fischer & Co. ISBN 978-91-86597-08-5