Olof von Dalin

Olof von Dalin, born Olof Dahlin on 29 August 1708 at the parsonage of Vinberg, in Halland, the son of the pastor, entered the University of Lund at thirteen, became in Stockholm tutor to the sons of Councillor Rålamb, then a clerk in the royal archives and, in 1737, the king's librarian. In the early 1730s he founded a weekly written by himself alone, on the English model of the Spectator. Tutor to the crown prince in 1750, ennobled in 1751, historiographer of the realm, then chancellor of the court, he died at Drottningholm on 12 August 1763.

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• PoetrySvenska frihetenOlof von Dalin · 1742not translated into EnglishLiterature