Jon Olof Åberg

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Jon Olof Åberg (born July 2, 1843 in the municipality of Ås, Kalmar Lan , † May 20, 1898 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish writer who achieved a certain fame with his romanticizing stories about Swedish history.

Life

Åberg's father Olaus Åberg was a pastor in Förlösa parish and married to Anna Maria Bonell. The bright boy took an early interest in patriotic history. After attending elementary school, he tried his hand at writing historical novels and short stories . When he settled in Stockholm in the 1860s, he published a number of small-scale works in the field. The easy-to-read, fresh stories, written for the general public, treated the simple motifs in a suspenseful manner, so that they appealed to a not insignificant readership and appeared in several editions. His subjects include, for example, the Engelbrekt Liberation War , the Swedish great power period or the Russo-Swedish War (1808-1809) .

Works (selection)

  • Carl XV: s skyddsling (1872)
  • Hjeltarne Jr ån Savolaks (1875)
  • Baner i säcken (1876)
  • Karl XILs värja (1878)
  • Snapp-hanarne (1882)
  • Svenskarne på Hammershuus (1882)
  • Om tiden (1890)
  • Filosofisk sedelära (I, II, 1893)
  • Gengangere (1882)
  • Om darwinismens betydelse för sedliga och religious frågor (1881)
  • I äktenskapsfrägan (1883)
  • Svenska bragder, skildrade för folket. (1883–84)
  • Olika dagrar, Religösa samtal upptecknade af Amicus Veritatis (1884)
  • Mannens akten-skapsålder af Styrbjörn Starke (1888)
  • Stat och kyrka (1890)
  • Carl Pontus Wikner. Hans lef nåd och läror (1889)
  • Fyra föreläsningar i Gothenburg (1891)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jon Olof Åberg . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 766 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  2. ^ Jon Olof Åberg . In: John Rosén (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 1st edition. tape 18 : Värja – Öynhausen . Gernandts boktryckeri, Stockholm 1894, Sp. 356 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Åberg, Jon Olof
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Åberg, Johann Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Ås municipality ( Kalmar län )
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1898
Place of death Stockholm