Georg Stiernhielm

Georg Stiernhielm, born Göran Olofsson on 7 August 1598 in Vika, in Dalarna, the son of a mining master and bailiff, studied at Uppsala and then at the universities of Wittenberg, Greifswald and Helmstedt, and lived mostly abroad until 1626. A professor at Västerås and then at the Collegium illustre in Stockholm, a judge at the court of appeal in Dorpat, ennobled in 1631, he lived in Livonia until the Russian invasion of 1656, was court poet to Queen Christina and from 1667 presided over the College of Antiquities. He died in Stockholm on 22 April 1672.

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• PoetryHerculesGeorg Stiernhielm · 1658not translated into EnglishLiterature