Swedish literary scholar
Martin Lamm (22 June 1880 – 5 May 1950) was a Swedish 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 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 Lamm was the first scholar to systematically edit the unpublished papers of August Strindberg and to conduct serious studies on the works of Carl Jonas Love Almquist.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. 
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