Viktor Rydberg

Viktor Rydberg, born on 18 December 1828 in Jönköping, the son of a former soldier who had become a prison guard, lost his mother to cholera at the age of five; his father sank into drink and the child was placed with others. He studied at Växjö and briefly at Lund, then in 1855 joined the editorial staff of a Gothenburg daily, where he stayed for more than twenty years; in 1862, an essay in which he denied the divinity of Christ made him one of the most discussed authors in the country. A member of parliament from 1870 to 1872, a member of the Swedish Academy in 1877, a professor at the Stockholm University College in 1884, he died in Djursholm on 21 September 1895.

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• NovelSingoallaViktor Rydberg · 1865LiteraturePublic domain