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BARON BERNHARD VON BESKOW (1796-1868)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 821 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON BERNHARD VON See also:BESKOW (1796-1868)  , See also:Swedish dramatist and historian, son of a See also:Stockholm See also:merchant, was See also:born on the 19th of See also:April 1796 . His vocation for literature was assisted by his See also:tutor, the poet Johan See also:Magnus Stjernstolpe (1777-1831), whose See also:works he edited . He entered the See also:civil service in 1814, was ennobled in 1826 and received the See also:title of See also:baron in 1843 . He held high appointments at See also:court, and was, from 1834 onwards, perpetual secretary of the Swedish See also:academy, using his See also:great See also:influence with tact and generosity . His See also:poetry is over-decorated, and his plays are grandiose See also:historical poems in dramatic See also:form . Among them are " Erik XIV." (2 parts, 1826); and four pieces collected (1836-1838) as Dramatiska Studier, the most famous of which is the tragedy of " Thorkel Knutsson." His works include many academical See also:memoirs, volumes of poems, See also:philosophy and a valuable historical study, Om Gustav den Tredje sdsom konung och menniska (5 vols . 186o-186q, " Gustavus III. as See also:king and See also:man "), printed in the transactions of the Swedish Academy (vols . 32, 34, 37, 42, 44) . He died on the 17th of See also:October 1868 . See also a See also:notice by C . D. of Wirsen in his Lefnadsieckningar (Stockholm, 1901) .

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