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FAHLCRANTZ, CHRISTIAN ERIK (179o-1866)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 126 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FAHLCRANTZ, See also:CHRISTIAN ERIK (179o-1866) , See also:Swedish author, was See also:born at Stora Tuna in See also:Sweden on the 3oth of See also:August 1790. His See also:brothers, Carl Johan- (1774–1861), the landscape-painter, and Axel See also:Magnus (1780-1854), the sculptor, became hardly less distinguished than himself. In 1804 he entered the university of See also:Upsala; in 1821 he became See also:tutor in Arabic, and in 1825 See also:professor of See also:Oriental See also:languages. In 1828 he entered the See also:church, but earlier than this, in 1825, he published his Noachs See also:Ark, a successful See also:satire on the See also:literary and social See also:life of his See also:time, followed in 1826 by a second See also:part. In'1835 Fahlcrantz brought out the first part of his epic of Ansgarius, which was completed in 1846, in 14 cantos. In 1842 he was made a member of the Swedish See also:Academy, and in 1849 he was made See also:bishop of See also:Vesteras, his next literary See also:work being an archaeological study on the beautiful See also:ancient See also:cathedral of his See also:diocese. In the course of the years 1858–1861 appeared the five volumes of his Rom forr och nu (See also:Rome as it was and is), a theological polemic, mainly directed against the See also:Jesuits. He died on the 6th of August 1866. His See also:complete See also:works (7 vols., See also:Orebro, 1863–1866) were issued mainly under his own superintendence.

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