Erik Johan Stagnelius

Erik Johan Stagnelius, born on 14 October 1793 in Gärdslösa, on the island of Öland, the son of a pastor who became bishop of Kalmar, was taught by his father, studied at Lund and then at Uppsala, and in 1815 entered the department of ecclesiastical affairs of the royal chancellery in Stockholm as a clerk. A solitary man, with a weak heart, resorting to opiates, he published in his lifetime, without his name, only a small part of his verse, and died in Stockholm on 3 April 1823. The manuscripts left at his death, published afterwards, founded his reputation.

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• TheatreBacchanterna eller FanatismenErik Johan Stagnelius · 1822not translated into EnglishLiterature