FRYXELL, ANDERS (1795-1881)

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FRYXELL, ANDERS (1795-1881) , Swedish historian, was born at Hesselskog, Dalsland, Sweden, on the 7th of February 1795. He was educated at

Upsala

UPSALA, or UPPSALA

, took holy orders in 182o, was made a

doctor

DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

of philosophy in 1821, and in 1823 began to publish the

great

GREAT

work

WORK

of his life, the Stories from Swedish History. He did not bring this labour to a close until, fifty-six years later, he published the

forty

FORTY

sixth

SIXTH

and crowning volume of his vast enterprise. Fryxell, as a historian, appealed to every class by the picturesqueness of his style and the breadth of his research; he had the

gift

GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

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

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

in succession to the poet 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. Among his numerous

minor

writings are prominent his Characteristics of Sweden between 1592 and z600 (183o), his Origins of thee In-accuracy with which the History of Sweden in Catholic Times has been Treated (1847), and his Contributions to the Literary History of Sweden. It is now beginning to be seen that the abundant labours 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

FAIR

to later and exacter historians to admit that they threaten to become obsolete in more than one direction. On the 21st of 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. (E. G.)

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