Esaias Tegnér

Esaias Tegnér, born on 13 November 1782 at the parsonage of Kyrkerud, in Värmland, the son of a pastor of peasant stock, lost his father at the age of nine and was placed as a clerk with a bailiff, who noticed his gifts. Entrusted at fourteen to his elder brother Lars Gustaf, a tutor, he entered the University of Lund in 1799. Professor of Greek at Lund, member of the Swedish Academy in 1819, bishop of Växjö in 1824, he suffered a mental crisis in 1840, was treated at Schleswig, and died in Växjö on 2 November 1846.

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