August Klingsey

Born as August Emil Georg Lind in 1891, August Klingsey was a Danish writer and bank clerk who published adventure stories in the 1910s and 1920s. Available reference sources describe him as the author of several boys’ books, some of them connected to the scouting movement.

He is best known today for Med Luftskib til Mars, an early Danish science-fiction novel written with Niels Meyn and first published in 1911. The book has remained visible through Project Gutenberg, which has helped keep his name in circulation for modern readers interested in vintage fantastical fiction.

Sources differ a little on the background of the name Klingsey: at least one reference notes that it may have been a pseudonym rather than a family name. What is clear is that he wrote in a spirited popular style and belongs to that fascinating generation of early 20th-century authors who mixed youthful adventure with dreams of new worlds.