MAGNUS

See also:

• JAKOB, LUDWIG HEINRICH VON (1759—1827)

JAKOB

See also:

• MAGNUS JAKOB CRUSENSTOLPE (1795-1865)

CRUSENSTOLPE (1795-1865)  , Swedish historian, early became famous both as a political and a historical writer . His first important work was a History of the Early Years of the Life of King Gustavus IV . Adolphus, which was followed by a series of monographs and by some politico-historical novels, of which The House of Holstein-Gottorp in Sweden is considered the best . He obtained a great influence over King Charles XIV . (Bernadotte), who during the years 1830–1833 gave him his fullest confidence, and sanctioned the official character of Crusenstolpe's newspaper Fdderneslandet . In the last-mentioned year, however, the historian suddenly became the king's bitterest enemy, and used his acrid pen on all occasions in attacking him . In 1838 he was condemned, for one of these angry utterances, to be imprisoned three years in the castle of Waxholm . He continued his literary labours until his death in 1865 . Few Swedish writers have wielded so pure and so incisive a style as Crusenstolpe, but his historical work is vitiated by political and personal bias .