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Carl Jonas Love Almqvist

Died in 1866

Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, born in Stockholm on 28 November 1793, the son of a war commissary, studied at Uppsala and was employed in the administration of the capital. At the beginning of 1824 he settled in Värmland, with friends who were disciples of Rousseau, to live there as a farmer; there he married Anna Maria Lundström. Back in Stockholm, he ran an experimental school from 1829 to 1841, was ordained a pastor, and then lived by journalism. Suspected in 1851 of fraud and of attempting to poison a moneylender, he fled to the United States, returned in 1865 as far as Bremen and died there on 26 September 1866.

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