Frans Michael Franzén
Frans Michael Franzén (born February 9, 1772 in Oulu in Finland , † August 14, 1847 in Härnösand , Sweden ) was a Finnish-Swedish Lutheran bishop , poet and writer.
Life
Franzén studied theology and philosophy in Turku under Henrik Gabriel Porthan , became a lecturer there in 1792 and, after traveling through Denmark, Germany, England and France in 1796, university librarian at the Academy of Turku , in 1798 professor of literary history and in 1801 of history and morals .
After Finland became part of Russia in 1809 , he turned to Sweden, where he was appointed chief pastor ( kyrkoherde ) in Kumla in 1811 , in 1824 at the Klarakirche in Stockholm and in 1831 Bishop of Härnösand . Since 1808 a member of the Swedish Academy , he became its secretary in 1824 and soon afterwards also its historian. From 1815 he was also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . Between 1823 and 1841 he was also (with brief interruptions) a member of the parish of the Swedish State Council .
As a poet with a Swedish mother tongue, Franzén first distanced himself from the unnatural, pompous manner that was almost universally applied to poetry in Sweden at the time, and instead revealed a natural, naive, childlike, idyllic sense that was enhanced by graceful form and language. His hymns were particularly popular, 13 of which can still be found in the current Swedish hymn book from 1986.
Works
His collected poems were published under the title:
- Skaldestycken (Örebro 1824–36, 5 volumes; new edition, Stockholm 1867–69, 7 volumes; selection 1871, 2 volumes).
Published in German translation of his poems:
- The rabulist and the country preacher (Lübeck 1842) and the cycle
- Selma and Fanny (1843).
literature
- Gösta Lundström: Frans Michael Franzén, Liv och diktning under Kumlatiden . Antonson, Göteborg 1947 (dissertation).
- Frans Michael Franzén . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 8 : Feiss-Fruktmögel . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1908, Sp. 1228 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Franzén, Frans Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Franzén, Frans Mikael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finland-Swedish poet and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1772 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oulu , Finland |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 14, 1847 |
| Place of death | Harnösand , Sweden |