Carl Jonas Love Almqvist

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Almqvist around 1835
Drawing by Almqvist, 1823

Carl Jonas Love Almqvist ( pronunciation : [ ˌkɑːɹl ˌ ʝuːnas ˌluːvə ˈalːmkvist ], born November 28, 1793 in Stockholm , † September 26, 1866 in Bremen ) was a Swedish writer and composer .

Life

Carl Jonas Love Almqvist was an extremely versatile writer whose style can be classified as romantic on the one hand , but who on the other hand is still considered one of the most modern authors of the Swedish language . He was a feminist and social reformer who was condemned by the Church as a dangerous revolutionary for his work.

Among his numerous works is Det går an von 1839, which made it onto the bestseller list in 2004 under the German title Die Woche mit Sara . The work caused a scandal because it propagated living together without marriage. Several authors wrote counter-drafts, including August Blanche ( Det går an ), Sophie von Knorring ( Så går det ), Malla Montgomery-Silfverstolpe ( Månne det gå an? ), JV Snellman ( Det går an ) and Wilhelmina Stålberg ( Eva Widebeck eller Det går aldrig an ).

Almqvist has been charged with murder and prosecuted - he was accused of killing a shady business acquaintance, the usurer Jakob von Scheven, with arsenic . It can no longer be reconstructed today whether the allegations were justified. Almqvist panicked and fled to the United States . In 1865 he changed his identity and returned to Europe. He lived under the name "Professor Carl Westermann" until his death in Bremen, Seemannstrasse 7. He was initially buried in a poor grave in Herdentorsfriedhof, but exhumed a few days later at the instigation of his daughter and was buried for the last time in the family grave in Solna, Sweden, in 1901 .

As a pianist , Almqvist was famous for his free fantasies . In addition to piano fantasies, he composed a large number of songs that were stylistically based on the Viennese classic , and the texts of which he wrote himself.

Works

Literary works

  • Murnis , 1819; revised in 1845
  • Om bread dough , 1821
  • Amorina , Epistle Novel 1822; revised in 1839
  • Törnrosens bok compilation 1833–51; in this:
  • Jaktslottet , story 1832 (German The Hunting Lodge , 1912)
  • Ramido Marinesco , Drama 1834 (German Ramido Marinesco , 1913)
  • Kapellet , narration 1838 (Eng. The Chapel , 1925)
  • Palatset , narration 1838 (German: The Palace , 1913)
  • New edition: German by A. Mens, Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-88243-406-6
  • Svenska fattigdomens betydelse , 1838
  • Drottningens juvelsmycke , Roman 1834 (German: The Queen's Jewelery , 1927; also published as The Queen's Jewelery )
  • Ormus och Ariman , Satire 1839
  • Grimstahamns nybygge , epistle novel 1839; revised version of Amorina
  • Mannniskoslaktets saga , 1839
  • Om poesi i sak , 1839
  • Det går an , Roman 1839 (Eng. The week with Sara , 2004)
  • Om uppfostringsväsendet i Sverige , 1840
  • Amalia Hillner , 1840
  • Gabrièle Mimanso , 1841–42
  • Tre fruar i Småland , 1842–43
  • Monographs , 1844-45
  • De dödas sagor , 1845; revised version of Murnis
  • Songes , 1849
  • Europeiska missnöjets Grunder , 1850
  • Om svenska rim

Dramatic works

  • Amorina , 1822, reading drama / novel
  • Drottningens juvelsmycke , 1834, novel / reading drama
  • Ramido Marinesco , 1834, verse drama
  • Dialog om Sättet att sluta Stycken , 1835, Dialog
  • Signora Luna , 1835, drama
  • Colombine , 1835, drama
  • Godolphin , 1838, drama
  • Skaldens natt , 1838, lyrical prose monologue
  • The Sansade Reviews , Drama
  • Ferrando Bruno , 1839, drama
  • Isidoros af Tadmor , 1839, drama
  • Marjam , 1839, drama
  • Nyniannes Röst , 1839, play with music
  • De doftar i Skogen , 1839, play with music
  • Svangrottan på Ipsara , 1839, drama
  • Silkesharen på Hagalund , 1850, drama
  • Purpurgrefven , 1850, drama

Musical works

  • Fria fantasier för pianoforte , 1847–49
  • Songes , 1849

filming

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann-Günther König : Bremen. Literary walks. Frankfurt and Leipzig: Insel, 2000, pp. 64–66.

literature

  • Anders Burman: Politics i sak. CJL Almqvists samhällstänkande 1839-1851 . Östlings Bokförl., Stockholm u. a. 2005. ISBN 91-7139-744-2
  • Magnus Jacobson: Almqvist. Dictars och hans tid . Historiska Media, Lund 2002. ISBN 91-89442-14-8
  • Per Mårtenson: Stylist i Carl Jonas Love Almqvists exilförfattarskap . Almqvist et al. Wiksell Internat., Stockholm 2005. ISBN 91-22-02125-6
  • Klaus Müller-Wille: writing, writing and knowledge. On a theory of the archive in texts by CJL Almqvist . Francke, Tübingen u. a. 2005. (= contributions to Nordic philology; 39) ISBN 3-7720-8086-3
  • Eivor Persson: CJL Almqvists slottskrönika och det indirectly skrivsättet . Univ., Litteraturvetenskapliga inst., Lund 2003. (= Critica literarum Lundensis; 4) ISBN 91-970946-3-3
  • Jakob Staberg: Att skapa en ny man. CJL Almqvist och MannaSamfund 1816-1824 . Brutus Östlings Bokförl. Symposium, Stockholm / Stehag 2002. ISBN 91-7139-597-0
  • Johan Svedjedal: Kärlek är. Carl Jonas Love Almqvists författarliv 1793-1833 . Wahlström et al. Widstrand, Stockholm 2007. ISBN 978-91-46-21582-0
  • Jon Viklund: Ett vidunder i sitt sekel. Retoriska studier i CJL Almqvists kritiska prosa 1815-1851 . Gidlunds förl., Hedemora 2004. (= Almqviststudier; 4) ISBN 91-7844-664-3
  • Laura Marholm : KJL Almquist. In: Deutsche Zeitung (Vienna), No. 7875, November 28, 1893, pp. 1–2.

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personal data
SURNAME Almqvist, Carl Jonas Love
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish writer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1866
Place of death Bremen