Gustaf af Geijerstam

Gustaf af Geijerstam, born on 5 January 1858 at the manor of Jönsarbo, in Västmanland, the son of an ironmaster who became head of a teacher training college, studied at Uppsala, where he was one of the founders of the radical association Verdandi, and published survey notes on the condition of workers in Stockholm. A journalist and literary adviser to theatres, he directed from 1897 to 1902 the literary department of the Gernandt publishing house, where he drew in Strindberg, who in 1907 made a mocking portrait of him. Married in 1885, remarried in 1902, he died in Stockholm on 6 March 1909.

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• NovelThe Book about the Little BrotherBoken om lille-brorGustaf af Geijerstam · 1900LiteraturePublic domain