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ANDERS See also: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
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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
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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
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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
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In 1824 he published his Swedish See also:Grammar, which was See also:long without a See also:rival
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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
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In 1840 he was elected to the Swedish See also:Academy in See also:succession to the poet Wallin (1779-1839)
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In 1847 Fryxell received from his See also:bishop permission to withdraw from all the services of the See also:
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