GUNNO See also:

• GUNNO DAHLSTJERNA (1661-1709)

DAHLSTJERNA (1661-1709)  , See also:

• SWEDISH

Swedish poet, whose See also:

• ORIGINAL

original surname was Eurelius, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 7th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1661 in the See also:

• PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish of Ohr in Dalsland, where his See also:

• FATHER

father was See also:

• RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, " rule ")

rector . He entered the university of See also:

• UPSALA, or UPPSALA

Upsala in 1677, and after gaining his degree entered the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of See also:

• LAND

land-See also:

• SURVEYING

surveying . He was sent in 1681 on professional business to See also:

• LIVONIA, or LIVLAND (Russian, Liflandia)

Livonia, then under Swedish See also:

• RULE

rule . A dissertation read at See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig in 1687 brought him the offer of a professorial See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair in the university, which he refused . Returning to See also:

• SWEDEN
• SWEDEN [Sverige]
• SWEDEN, NORWAY AND

Sweden he executed commissions it land-surveying directed by See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles XI., and in 1699 he became See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the whole See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department . In 1702 he was ennobled under the name of See also:

• DAHLSTJERNA, GUNNO (1661-1709)

Dahlstjerna . He wandered • over the whole of the See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of the Baltic, Livonia, Riigen and See also:

• POMERANIA (German, Pommern)

Pomerania, preparing 'maps which still exist in the office of public land-surveying in See also:

• STOCKHOLM

Stockholm . His See also:

• DEATH

death, which took See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in Pomerania on his See also:

• FORTY

forty-eighth birthday, 7th of September 1709, is said to have been hastened by the disastrous See also:

• NEWS

news of the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of See also:

• POLTAVA

Poltava . Dahlstjerna's patriotism was touching in its pathos and intensity, and during his See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long periods of professional See also:

• EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

exile he comforted himself by the See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition of songs to his beloved Sweden . His See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius was most irregular, but at his best he easily surpasses all the Swedish poets of his See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time . His best-known original See also:

• WORK

work is Kungaskald (See also:

• STETTIN

Stettin, 1697), an See also:

• ELEGY

elegy on the death of Charles XI . It is written in alexandrines, arranged in ottava rima .

The poem is pompous and allegorical, but there are passages -full of See also:

• MELODY (Gr. ,ueXw3ia, a choral song, from name, tune, and gi6i, song)

melody and high thoughts . Dahlstjerna was a reformer in See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, and it has been well said by See also:

• ATTERBOM, PER DANIEL AMADEUS (1790-1855)

Atterbom that in this poem " he treats the Swedish speech just as dictatorially as Charles XI. and Charles XII. treated the Swedish nation." In 1690 was printed at Stettin his See also:

• PARAPHRASE (Gr. irapa¢pavis, from rrapa4p4av, to relate something in different words, 'raga, beside, and ¢pai"eav, speak, tell)

paraphrase of the Pastor Fido of See also:

• GUARINI
• GUARINI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1537-1612)

Guarini . His most popular work is his See also:

• GOTHA

Gotha kampavisa om Konungen och Herr Peder (The Goth's Battle See also:

• SONG

Song, concerning the King and See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

Master See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

Peter; Stockholm, 1701) . The King is Charles XII. and Master Peter is the See also:

• TSAR, or CZAR

tsar of See also:

• RUSSIA
• RUSSIA (Rossiya)

Russia . This spirited ballad lived almost until our own days on the lips of the See also:

• PEOPLE

people as a folk-song . The See also:

• WORKS

works of Dahlstjerna have been collected by P . Hanselli, in the Samlade Vitterhetsarbeten of svenska Forfattare fr¢n See also:

• STJERNHJELM, GEORG (1598–1672)

Stjernhjelm till Dalin (Upsala, 1856, &c.) .