Carl Snoilsky

Carl Snoilsky, born in Stockholm on 8 September 1841, son of Count Nils Snoilsky, a judge and chamberlain, and of the painter Sigrid Banér, studied at Uppsala from 1860 and entered the Foreign Ministry, which sent him to Madrid and Paris in 1864 and 1865. A member of the Swedish Academy, he left his posts and his marriage in 1879 for Florence, with Countess Ebba Piper, whom he married in 1880. Back in 1891, he headed the Royal Library and died in Stockholm on 19 May 1903.

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• PoetrySvenska bilderCarl Snoilsky · 1886not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain