id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5422 Anders Chydenius - Wikipedia .html text/html 3306 439 65 Anders Chydenius (Swedish: [ˈânːdɛʂ kʏˈděːnɪɵs]; 26 February 1729 – 1 February 1803) was a Finnish priest and a member of the Swedish Riksdag, and is known as the leading classical liberal of Nordic history. He was elected as an ecclesiastic member of the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates in 1765–66, in which his Cap party seized the majority and government and championed Sweden's first Freedom of the Press Act, the most liberal in the world along with those of Great Britain and the Seven United Provinces. Following Gustav III's coup d'état in 1772, which meant the end of parliamentary rule for another century, Chydenius briefly returned to prominence and worked to increase civil liberties and economic freedom as part of Gustav's doctrine of enlightened despotism, and contributed the abolishment of torture as means of interrogation, the limitation of capital punishment, and the legalisation of Jewish and Catholic immigration into Sweden. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5422.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5422.txt