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RYDBERG, ABRAHAM VIKTOR (1828-1895)
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See also:RYDBERG, See also:ABRAHAM VIKTOR (1828-1895) , See also:Swedish author and publicist, was See also:born in See also:Jonkoping on 18th See also:December 1828. He was educated at the high school of Vaxio, and passed on to the university of See also:Lund in '1851. While at school he was See also:publishing See also:verse and See also:prose in the See also:periodicals; some of these See also:early miscellanies he collected in 1894 in the volumes called *See also:Varia. As a student he turned to more precise labours, and devoted himself to See also:science. He had almost determined to adopt the profession of an engineer, when he was offered in 1855 a See also:post on the See also:staff of one of the largest Swedish See also:news-papers. This caused his thoughts to return to imaginative literature, and it was in the See also:feuilleton of this See also:journal (the Goteborgs Handels-och sjofartstidning) that Viktor Rydberg's romances successively appeared; he was editorially connected with it until 1876. The Freebooter on the Baltic (1857) and The Last of the Athenians (1859) gave Rydberg a See also:place in the front See also:rank of contemporary novelists. It was a surprise to his admirers to see him presently turn to See also:theology, but with The See also:Bible's Teaching about See also:Christ (1862), in which the aspects of See also:modern Biblical See also:criticism were first placed before Swedish readers, he enjoyed a vast success. He followed this up by a number of contributions to the popular See also:philosophy of See also:religion, all inspired by the same reverent and yet searching spirit of inquiry. The modernity of his views led to his being opposed by the orthodox See also:clergy, but by the wider public he was greatly esteemed. Nevertheless, it is said that it was his religious criticism which so See also:long excluded him from the Swedish See also:Academy, since he was not elected until 1877, when he had long been the first living author of See also:Sweden. See also:Roman Days is a See also:series of archaeological essays on See also:Italy (1876). He collected his poems in 1882; his version of See also:Faust See also:dates from 1876. In 1884 he was appointed See also:professor of ecclesiastical See also:history at See also:Stockholm. He died, after a See also:short illness, on the 22nd of See also:September 1895. In Viktor Rydberg Sweden possessed a writer of the first See also:order, who carried on the tradition of See also:Bostrom and See also:Geijer in See also:philo-:lophy and history, and possessed in addition a glow of See also:imagination and a marvellous See also:charm of See also:style. He was an idealist of the old romantic type which Sweden had known for three-quarters of a See also:century; he was the last of that See also:race, and perhaps, as a See also:mere writer, the greatest. In See also:personal See also:character Rydberg was extremely like his writings—stately, ardent and ceremonious, with a fund of amiability which made him universally beloved. His premature See also:death was the subject of nationalmourning, and had even a See also:historical significance, for with him the old romantic See also:influence in Swedish literature ceased to be See also:paramount. (E. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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