De­cem­ber 15, 1861, Lin­kö­ping, Swe­den.

Oc­to­ber 23, 1939, Lin­kö­ping, Swe­den.

A-der.

Daughter of a high school tu­tor, Ölan­der moved to Svans­hals, Swe­den, at age 10 when her fa­ther be­came vicar there. She moved back to Lin­kö­ping after her father’s death. Ear­ly in life she started to write po­ems and stor­ies; she ed­it­ed near­ly 50 books, in­clud­ing 3 po­e­try col­lect­ions. The others were Christ­ian stories and novels. She al­so trans­lat­ed hymns in­to Swed­ish from Eng­lish and Ger­man, and wrote some orig­in­al hymns.

• Erickson, p. 361

1. Det brister en sträng
   • A Quivering Chord Is Brok­en
2. Om jag ägde allt, men icke Je­sus
   • If I Gained the World
3. Varför icke i dag, varför tve­kar du än