Anders Fryxell - Wikipedia Anders Fryxell From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Anders Fryxell, portrait by Alexander Wetterling [sv] Anders Fryxell (7 February 1795 – 21 March 1881) was a Swedish historian. Life[edit] Fryxell was born at Edsleskog, Dalsland, (now part of Åmål Municipality, Västra Götaland County) on 7 February 1795. He was educated at Uppsala University, took holy orders in 1820, was made a Doctor of Philosophy in 1821, and in 1823 began to publish the great work of his life, the Stories from Swedish History. He did not bring this labor to a close until, fifty-six years later, he published the forty-sixth and crowning volume of his vast enterprise.[1] Fryxell, as a historian, appealed to every class by the picturesqueness of his style and the breadth of his research; he had the gift of awakening to an extraordinary degree the national sense in his readers. In 1824 he published his Swedish Grammar, which was long without a rival. In 1833 he received the title of professor, and in 1835 he was appointed to the incumbency of Sunne, in the diocese of Karlstad, where he resided for the remainder of his life. In 1840 he was elected to the Swedish Academy in succession to the poet Johan Olof Wallin (1779–1839). In 1847 Fryxell received from his bishop permission to withdraw from all the services of the Church, that he might devote himself without interruption to historical investigation.[1] Among his numerous minor writings are prominent his Characteristics of Sweden between 1592 and 1600 (1830), his Origins of the Inaccuracy with which the History of Sweden in Catholic Times has been Treated (1847), and his Contributions to the Literary History of Sweden.[1] It is now beginning to be seen that the abundant labors of Fryxell were rather of a popular than of a scientific order, and although their influence during his lifetime was unbounded, it is only fair to later and exacter historians to admit that they threaten to become obsolete in more than one direction.[1] Fryxell was the founder of the progressive pioneer school Wallinska skolan, the first serious secondary education girl school in Stockholm, and was its principal in 1831-1834.[2] On the 21 March 1881 Anders Fryxell died at Stockholm, and in 1884 his daughter Eva Fryxell (born 1829) published from his MS. an interesting History of My History, which was really a literary autobiography and displays the persistency and tirelessness of his industry.[1] He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1847.[1] References[edit] ^ a b c d e f Gosse 1911. ^ Heckscher, Ebba, Några drag ur den svenska flickskolans historia: under fleres medverkan samlade, Norstedt & söner, Stockholm, 1914 Attribution:  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gosse, Edmund (1911). "Fryxell, Anders". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 271. Cultural offices Preceded by Johan Olof Wallin Swedish Academy, Seat No 1 1840–1881 Succeeded by Hans Forssell Authority control BIBSYS: 90322619 GND: 116843446 ISNI: 0000 0001 0875 7743 KulturNav: 729350cc-ede4-405d-814b-e0081025f9a1 LCCN: n88648024 MBA: 324e5197-a7d5-4e42-8ee6-2631ace9e156 NKC: js2015857637 NTA: 069705992 PLWABN: 9810599125105606 SELIBR: 234230 SUDOC: 180656775 VcBA: 495/129507 VIAF: 17984055 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n88648024 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anders_Fryxell&oldid=872430386" Categories: 1795 births 1881 deaths People from Åmål Municipality Members of the Swedish Academy Swedish historians Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 19th-century Swedish people Hidden categories: Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with KULTURNAV identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VcBA identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica articles with no significant updates Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikisource Languages Dansk Deutsch مصرى Nederlands Norsk bokmål Русский Slovenščina Svenska Українська Edit links This page was last edited on 7 December 2018, at 05:51 (UTC). 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