I have become very intrested in a book called “Wie entstanden Weltall und Menschheit?” published 1906 and written by my grandfather Willy Kinberg. 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“.

I have the Swedish book that Willy gave to his parents with the signature “Tillägnat Föräldrarna av förf. Freiburg den 28/11 1908″ (”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 the family story it holds but also because of its theme. The English title could be “The Creation of the World and Human kind“.

Creation has been a recurrent interest since I were eighteen year old. I found this book in the library of my father in Vienna, took it to Göteborg and then forgot it. This morning, almost two years later, I became really aware about the existence and value of this book. I wake up at five o’clock in the morning and couldn’t sleep anymore. My brain was cooking, I became obsessed about doing something with it. So at seven I went up looking for information about Willy on Internet, ordered the German translation on a second hand German bookshop and started reading the Swedish version of the book.