Josef Julius Wecksell

Josef Julius Wecksell was born in Turku on 19 March 1838, the son of the hatter Johan Wecksell. He wrote poems, tales and plays from childhood, and a comedy of his was performed in his town at the beginning of the 1850s. A student in Helsinki from 1858, he published in 1860 a first collection of verse that was acclaimed. A psychosis appeared around the age of twenty-four and never left him. After a stay in an asylum in Bonn in 1863, he was admitted in 1865 to the Lappviken hospital in Helsinki, where he lived for forty-two years and died on 9 August 1907.

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• TheatreDaniel HjortJosef Julius Wecksell · 1862not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain