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MAGNUS JAKOB CRUSENSTOLPE (1795-1865)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 552 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAGNUS JAKOB CRUSENSTOLPE (1795-1865)  ,
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Swedish historian, early became famous both as a
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political and a
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historical writer . His first important
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work was a
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History of the Early Years of the
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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
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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
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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
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literary labours until his
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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
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personal bias .

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