{{Short description|Swedish literary scholar}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}} {{Infobox person | name = Martin Lamm | image = Martin Lamm.jpg | caption = | othername = | birth_name = | birth_date = 22 June 1880 | birth_place = | death_date = 5 May 1950 | death_place = | burial_place = | alma_mater = | occupation = Comparative literary scholar | years_active = | known_for = Swedish Academy membership | spouse = Greta Wawrinsky | children = [[Esther Lamm]] | mother = Lisen Philipson | father = Herman Lamm }}

'''Martin Lamm''' (22 June 1880 – 5 May 1950) was a [[Swedes|Swedish]] [[Comparative literature|literary scholar]] elected to a lifetime membership of the [[Swedish Academy]] (seat number 2).

==Life and work== Lamm was the son of businessman [[Herman Lamm (businessman)|Herman Lamm]] and Lisen Philipson. He became [[associate professor]] of literature at [[Uppsala University]] in 1908. Lamm was a professor at [[Stockholm University]] 1919–1945.

In 1928, he became a member of the [[Swedish Academy]]. Lamm was the first scholar to systematically edit the unpublished papers of [[August Strindberg]] and to conduct serious studies on the works of [[Carl Jonas Love Almquist]]. He also wrote a biography on [[Emanuel Swedenborg]]. Lamm died in a tram accident on [[Skeppsbron]] in Stockholm.

Lamm was married to Greta Wawrinsky and had a daughter, psychiatrist [[Esther Lamm]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Psychoanalytikerinnen in Skandinavien |url=https://www.psychoanalytikerinnen.de/skandinavien_biografien.html#Lamm |access-date=2023-11-12 |website=www.psychoanalytikerinnen.de}}</ref>

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== Bibliography == * Svenska Dagbladets årsbok : 1950, ed. Erik Rudberg, Edvin Hellbom, Stockholm 1951 p.&nbsp;286. * Lamm 5, Herman Fredrik in Nordisk familjebok (2nd ed., 1911).

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