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STJERNHJELM, GEORG (1598–1672)

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STJERNHJELM, GEORG (1598–1672) , See also:Swedish poet and See also:scholar, whose See also:original name was Goran Lilja, was See also:born at Wika in See also:Dalecarlia on the 7th of See also:August 1598. He took his degree at Greifswald, and spent some years in travelling over every See also:quarter of See also:Europe. On his return in 1626 he maintained a See also:correspondence with See also:Salmasius, See also:Heinsius, and other scholars. He taught at See also:Vesteras, and then at See also:Stockholm, attracting the See also:notice of Gustavus See also:Adolphus, who gave him a responsible See also:post at Dorpat in 1630, and raised him next See also:year to the See also:nobility. After the See also:king's See also:death, See also:Christina attached him, as a See also:kind of poet See also:laureate, to her See also:court in Stockholm. His See also:property See also:lay in See also:Livonia, and when the Russians plundered that See also:province in 1656 the poet, who was in temporary disgrace at court, was reduced to extreme poverty for two or three years. He subsequently became See also:judge at See also:Trondhjem, member of the See also:council of See also:war (1661), and See also:president (1667) of the See also:College of Antiquities at Stockholm. He died at Stockholm on the 22nd of See also:April 1672. His greatest poem See also:Hercules, is a didactic See also:allegory in hexameters, written in very musical See also:verse, and with almost See also:Oriental splendour of phrase and imagery. The Hercules, which deals with the See also:familiar See also:story of the dispute for the See also:hero between See also:Duty and See also:Pleasure, was first printed at See also:Upsala in 1653 but was finished some years earlier. Brollops-Besvars Ihugkommelse, a sort of serio-comic See also:epithalamium in the same measure, is another very brilliant See also:work. His masques, Then fhngne Cupido (See also:Cupid Caught) (1649), Freds-afl (The See also:Birth of See also:Peace) (1649), and See also:Parnassus triumphans (1651), were written for the entertainment of See also:Queen Christina.

He can scarcely be said to have been successful in his See also:

attempt, in the first two of these, to introduce unrhymed See also:song-See also:measures. Stjernhjelm was an active philologist, and See also:left a See also:great number of See also:works on See also:language, of which only a few have been printed. He also wrote on See also:history, See also:mathematics, See also:philosophy and natural See also:science, producing original and valuable work on every subject he attempted. Among his numerous works are See also:Letter A of the See also:Lexicon vocabulorum antiquorum gothicorum (1643, &c.), See also:Archimedes reformatus (1644), Rana suetica (L(ibeck, 1700), and an edition of Wdst See also:Gotha Lagbok (1663). His works were partially edited by P. Hanselli (Samlade vitterhets arbeten of Svenska Forfattare, vol. i., 1871), by L. Hammarskt ld (Stockholm, 1818), by F. Tamm (Upsala, 1891). See also C. J. Lenstrom, Litterart Portrattgalleri (Upsala, 1838); there is a full See also:list of his writings in the Svenskt biographiskl Lexikon, vol. xv. (Upsala, 1848).

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