August Blanche

August Blanche, born in Stockholm on 17 September 1811, the natural son of a military chaplain who became a pastor and of a servant who married a farrier whose name he took, obtained a law degree at Uppsala in 1838. Editor-in-chief of the liberal journal Freja from 1839 to 1842, then of an illustrated newspaper from 1857 to 1863, he wrote or adapted thirty-six plays in about ten years. Deputy for Stockholm in the Diet from 1859 to 1866, then in the second chamber, he died in his native city on 30 November 1868, the day the statue of Charles XII was unveiled.

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• TheatreEtt resande teatersällskapAugust Blanche · 1848not translated into EnglishLiterature