Abstract
Like the majority of Icelanders of his generation, Sigurður Þórarinsson was born and brought up at a farm, in Vopnafjörður, NE-Iceland. Being a precocious child he was enrolled in the Akureyri Gymnasium from which he matriculated in 1931. Influenced by his natural-science teacher Pálmi Hannesson, he entered the Copenhagen University the following fall to study geology. After one winter in Denmark, however, he transferred to Stockholm to continue his studies, now in geography and botany as well as geology. After receiving his doctoral degree at the University of Stockholm in 1944, he returned to Iceland and worked for a while with the Research Council. In January 1947 he became Director of the Department of Geology and Geography, Museum of Natural History in Reykjavik, a position he held until 1968 when he became Professor of Geology and Geography at the University of Iceland. While Director of the Natural History Museum he was twice appointed Professor and Director of the Geographical Institute of Stockholm, in the years 1950–1951 and 1953
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