Johan Henrik Kinberg who was born 1/11 1782 married Margareta Lovisa Schlyter and got five children. One of them became doctor Johan Gustaf Hjalmar (1 2) who sailed around the world with the Swedish warship Eugenie (1 2 3). Johan Gustaf Hjalmar had two sisters, the oldest was Lovisa Wilhelmina.

Lovisa Wilhelmina married a priest, Jacob Petersson. They got eight childrens, among them my grand grandfather Wilhelm Henrik Jakob.

Wilhelm Henrik Jakob Peterson Kinberg married Selma Constance Kull and got five childrens. One of the boys was Willy and one of the girls was Rut.

Willy (look at his driver license) married Edla Elisabeth Charlotta Schenström and became the father of my father.
Rut married Frits Robert Sigmund Geiges and became the mother of my mother.

So Wilhelm Henrik Jakob and Selma Constance Kull are my gran granparents twice. And my father Ragnar and mother Signe were cousins. My parents were born in Freiburg in Breisgau but my father grew up in Prag while my mother grew up in Germany. They met in Sweden after the war.

I am especcially intrested in Willy Kinberg, the father of my father as he wrote a book in German called “Wie entstanden Weltall und Menschheit?” (1) published 1906. As it was sold in 20000 copies in a few month (according to C.A. Claus, the german-Swedish translator) Willy decided to translate it to Swedish with the title “Världens och Människans Uppkomst“. The English title could be “The Creation of the World and Human kind“.

I have the Swedish book that Willy gave to his parents with the signature “Tillägnat Föräldrarna av förf. Freiburg den 28/11 2008″ (”Dedicated to the parents from the writer.”) the same year the book was published. This is of course a very special book not only because of its content but also because of the family story it holds.

I have all my life been intrested in the subject Creation. This spring I dedicated a blog to this (1). But I got this book in my hands only when I found it in the library of my deceased father in Vienna. And this morning I became obsessed about doing something with it.

Well, I must first read the book…