Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, born on 19 January 1790 in Åsbo, in Östergötland, the son of a curate, a pupil at Linköping, entered the University of Uppsala in 1805 and there founded in 1807, with fellow students, a literary society soon called Aurora, whose journal, from 1810 to 1813, earned the young Romantics the name of Phosphorists. German tutor to the crown prince, he taught history and philosophy at Uppsala and then, from 1835, aesthetics; he entered the Swedish Academy in 1839 and died in Stockholm on 21 July 1855.

In the catalogue 1

• TheatreLycksalighetens öPer Daniel Amadeus Atterbom · 1827not translated into EnglishLiterature