Qvarnstrom, S(ven) Birger (1897-?)

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Qvarnstrom, S(ven) Birger (1897-?)

Swedish teacher and journalist active in the field of parapsychology. He was born on June 22, 1897, at Vissefjärda, Kalmer län, Sweden. He studied at University of Lund and later held positions as an instructor in languages and political economics at colleges in the Swedish cities of Hälsingborg, Eskilstuna, Malmö, Orebro, and Norrköping.

He contributed to a number of Swedish newspapers as a columnist and literary critic, and as a member of the Swedish Society for Psychical Research he spent some years investigating psychic phenomena such as clairvoyance, telekinesis, and pre-cognition.

Sources:

Qvarnstrom, S. Birger. Parapskologi Resultat och Perspecktiv (ParapsychologyResults and Perspectives). N.p., 1959.

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