Hustvedt, Sigurd B.

Hustvedt was born in 1882; a native of Iowa, he graduated from Luther College; began graduate work at UC Berkeley in 1911, and in 1912 began studying at Harvard Univ., receiving his Ph. D in 1915; awarded the Parker Fellowship in Comparative Literature (1914-15) for ballad study in Britain and Scandinavia; returned to teach at the Univ. of Illinois, but left to serve as captain in WWI; resumed teaching at the Univ. of Minnesota, and in 1921 left to join the English dept. at the University of California's newly established Southern Branch; helped to found the California Folklore Society in 1942 and served as editor of its journal; wrote Ballad criticism in Scandinavia and Great Britain during the eighteenth century (1916), Ballad books and ballad men : raids and rescues in Britain, America and the Scandinavian north since 1800 (1930), and A melodic index of Child's ballad tunes (1936); retired in 1949; he died on Oct. 4, 1954.

From the description of Papers, 1930-1950. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 38989137

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