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ANDERS FRYXELL (1795-1881)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 271 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRYXELL (1795-1881)  , See also:Swedish historian, was See also:born at Hesselskog, Dalsland, See also:Sweden, on the 7th of See also:February 1795 . He was educated at See also:Upsala, took See also:holy orders in 182o, was made a See also:doctor of See also:philosophy in 1821, and in 1823 began to publish the See also:great See also:work of his See also:life, the Stories from Swedish See also:History . He did not bring this labour to a See also:close until, fifty-six years later, he published the See also:forty-See also:sixth and crowning See also:volume of his vast enterprise . See also:Fryxell, as a historian, appealed to every class by the picturesqueness of his See also:style and the breadth of his See also:research; he had the See also:gift of awakening to an extraordinary degree the See also:national sense in his readers . In 1824 he published his Swedish See also:Grammar, which was See also:long without a See also:rival . In 1833 he received the See also:title of See also:professor, and in 1835 he was appointed to the incumbency of Sunne, in the See also:diocese of See also:Karlstad, where he resided for the See also:remainder of his life . In 1840 he was elected to the Swedish See also:Academy in See also:succession to the poet Wallin (1779-1839) . In 1847 Fryxell received from his See also:bishop permission to withdraw from all the services of the See also:Church, that he might devote himself without interruption to See also:historical investigation . Among his numerous See also:minor writings are prominent his Characteristics of Sweden between 1592 and z600 (183o), his Origins of thee In-accuracy with which the History of Sweden in See also:Catholic Times has been Treated (1847), and his Contributions to the See also:Literary History of Sweden . It is now beginning to be seen that the abundant labours of Fryxell were rather of a popular than of a scientific See also:order, and although their See also:influence during his lifetime was unbounded, it is only See also:fair to later and exacter historians to admit that they threaten to become obsolete in more than one direction . On the 21st of See also:March 1881 Anders Fryxell died at See also:Stockholm, and in 1884 his daughter Eva Fryxell (born 1829) published from his MS. an interesting History of My History, which was really a literary autobiography and displays the persistency and tirelessness of his See also:industry . (E .

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