CHRISTIAN ERIK

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• CHRISTIAN ERIK FAHLCRANTZ (179o-1866)

FAHLCRANTZ (179o-1866)  , Swedish author, was born at Stora Tuna in Sweden on the 3oth of August 1790 . His brothers, Carl Johan- (1774–1861), the landscape-painter, and Axel Magnus (1780-1854), the sculptor, became hardly less distinguished than himself . In 1804 he entered the university of Upsala; in 1821 he became tutor in Arabic, and in 1825 professor of Oriental languages . In 1828 he entered the church, but earlier than this, in 1825, he published his Noachs Ark, a successful satire on the literary and social life of his time, followed in 1826 by a second part . In'1835 Fahlcrantz brought out the first part of his epic of Ansgarius, which was completed in 1846, in 14 cantos . In 1842 he was made a member of the Swedish Academy, and in 1849 he was made bishop of Vesteras, his next literary work being an archaeological study on the beautiful ancient cathedral of his diocese . In the course of the years 1858–1861 appeared the five volumes of his Rom forr och nu (Rome as it was and is), a theological polemic, mainly directed against the Jesuits . He died on the 6th of August 1866 . His complete works (7 vols., Orebro, 1863–1866) were issued mainly under his own superintendence .