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FRANS MIKAEL FRANZEN (1772-1847)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 37 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANZEN (1772-1847)  , See also:Swedish poet, was See also:born at See also:Uleaborg in See also:Finland on the 9th of See also:February 1772 . At thirteen he entered the university of See also:Abo, where he attended the lectures of H . G . Porthan (1739-1804), a See also:pioneer in the study of Finnish See also:history and See also:legend . He graduated in 1789, and became " eloquentiae docens " in 1792 . Three years later he started on a tour through See also:Denmark, See also:Germany, See also:France and See also:England, returning in 1796 to accept the See also:office of university librarian at Abo . In r8or he became See also:professor of history and See also:ethics, and in 18o8 was elected a member of the Swedish See also:Academy . On the cession of Finland to See also:Russia, See also:Franzen removed to See also:Sweden, where he was- successively appointed See also:parish See also:priest of Kumla in the See also:diocese of Strengnas (,8,o), See also:minister of the See also:Clara See also:Church in See also:Stockholm (1824) and See also:bishop of See also:Hernosand (1831) . He died at Sabra parsonage on the 14th of See also:August 1847 . From the autumn of 1793, when his Till en ung Flicka and Menniskans anlete were inserted by Keligren in the Slockholmspost, Franzen See also:grew in popular favour by means of many See also:minor poems of singular simplicity and truth, as Till See also:Selma, Den gamle knekten, Riddar St GOran, De Send blommorna, Modren vid vaggan, Nyarsmorgonen and Stjernhimmelen . His songs Goda See also:gosse glaset tom, Sorj ej den gryende dagen forut, Champagnevinet and Bevdringssang were widely sung, and in 1797 he won the See also:prize of the Swedish Academy by his Sang ofver grefve Filip Ovule . Henceforth his muse, touched with the See also:academic spirit, grew more reflective and didactic .

His longer See also:

works, as Emili eller en afton i Lappland, and the epics Svante See also:Sture eller See also:motet vid Alvastra, Kolumbus eller Amerikas upptdckt and Gustaf Adolf i Tyskland (the last two incomplete), though See also:rich in beauties of detail, are far inferior to his shorter pieces . The poetical works of Franzen are collected under the See also:title Skaldestycken (7 vols., 1824–1861) ; new ed., Samlade dikter, with a See also:biography by A . A . Grafstrom (1867–1869); also a selection (Valda dikter) in 2 vols . (1871) . His See also:prose writings, Om Svenska drotlningar (Abo, 1798; See also:Orebro, 1823), Skrifter i obunden stil, vol. i . (1835), Predikningar (5 vols., 1841–1845) and Minnesteckningar, prepared for the Academy (3 vols., 1848-186o), are marked by faithful See also:portraiture and purity of See also:style . See B . E . Malmstrom, in the . Handlingar of the Swedish Academy (1852, new See also:series 1887), vol. i.; S . A .

Hollander, Minne of F . M . Franzen (Orebro, 1868) ; F . Cygnaeus, Teckningar ur F . M . Franzins lefnad (See also:

Helsingfors, 1872) ; and Gustaf See also:Ljunggren, Svenska vitterhetens hafder efter Gustaf III.'s dOd, vol. ii . (1876) .

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