Lars Wivallius
Lars Wivallius (* 1605 in Vivalla near Örebro ; † April 5, 1669 there ) was a Swedish poet.
Life
Lars Wivallius was actually named Lars Svensson from birth. He took the surname Wivallius from his place of birth. Wivallius came from a farming family. In 1623 he began studying at Uppsala University . Out of a thirst for adventure and possibly also to study foreign languages, he went to Central Europe after two years at university. In Germany he pursued various activities, including as a soldier in the Thirty Years War . In Nuremberg he was tried for embezzlement. Wivallius pretended to be the Danish "Freiherr Erik Gyllenstierna" and thus received a Danish passport. He succeeded in that - then Danish - Scania to escape. Here Wivallius married the daughter of a nobleman. As he was about to seize the family fortune, his imposture was exposed and Wivallius was sentenced to death in 1631. However, Wivallius was able to flee to Sweden. However, there was a new trial against him because of his imposture, and until 1641 he was imprisoned in the Kajaneborg fortress near Kajaani ( Finland ). After his release he practiced as a lawyer in Stockholm and Vivalla.
meaning
Wivallius is considered one of the first important Swedish poets. His poems are the oldest Swedish poems that are still read today. In contrast to his contemporaries Georg Stiernhielm and Skogekär Bergbo , Wivallius wrote less scholarly and more personally and individually. His poems are predominantly shaped by his own life situation, for example when he addresses his judges in the form of a poem and asks for a mild judgment or sings about freedom. Wivallius feels like an outsider, which sometimes gives his poems an almost modern tone. Wivallius' nature poetry, in which he praises nature in an unusually detailed manner for the time, is particularly important. His lamentation-Wijsa öfwer thenna torra and kalla wåhr (lament for this dry and cold spring), written in prison, is particularly famous .
literature
- Bernt Olsson, Ingemar Algulin: Litteraturens historia i Sverige . 4th edition. Norstedt, Stockholm 1995, ISBN 91-1-943632-7 .
- Göran Hägg: Den svenska literaturhistorien . Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm 1996, ISBN 91-46-16928-8 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wivallius, Lars |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1605 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vivalla, Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 1669 |
| Place of death | Vivalla |