Sven Lagerbring

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Sven Lagerbring

Sven Lagerbring , actually Sven Bring, wrote himself Sven Lager Bring, (* February 24, 1707 at Klinta farm in the parish of Bosjökloster, in today's municipality of Höör ; † December 5, 1787 in Lund ) was a Swedish historian. The Bring family came from old Norwegian nobility from the time of King Sverre .

His parents were the pastor Ebbe Bring in Bosjökloster, later in Brönnestad and his wife Abela Klinthæus. In 1745 he married Maria Beata Lagercreutz, daughter of the general auditor Jacob Johansson Lagercreutz and his wife Maria Rosensparre.

Lagerbring studied at Lund University . In 1731 he was "Juris Adjunct" there. A few years later he was employed by the President of the Swedish court Hans von Fersen in Stockholm as a teacher for his son Axel von Fersen - who later became Field Marshal. This also gave him access to the Reich Archives .

In 1741 he became the academy secretary in Lund. In 1742 he became professor of history there, and in 1748 and 1755 he was rector of the university. In 1751 he received his doctorate from the law faculty. In 1755 Lagerbring was one of the first to be appointed by Queen Lovisa Ulrika to the Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies . In 1769 he was ennobled and given the title of "Chancellery". In 1770 he was exempted from lecturing so that he could devote himself to writing Swedish history. For this he received a grant of 4,000 thalers. When he was awarded the title of nobility, he was also given the name "Lagerbring", which he himself always wrote as "Lager Bring".

Bust of Sven Lagerbring at the University of Lund

Lagerbring is one of the founders of modern critical research on Swedish history. He also used foreign sources and was in correspondence with the Danish historians Jacob Langebek and Peter Frederik Suhm . He thought of the king in his writings and described the Swedish nobility so critically that he was referred to as the founder of the "damnation of the nobility" in Swedish historiography.

His main work is Svea rikes historia in four volumes (1769–1783). In this work, Lagerbring created a description of the Swedish state, its administration and its organization that was unique at the time. He was also very interested in archeology and historical documents about his home province. So he published the Monumenta scanensia .

Works (selection)

  • Historia literaria, eller Inledning, til wetnskaps historien ,: uti hwilken korteligen anföres wetnskapernas tilstånd ifrån deras första början til närwarande tid. Lund 1748.
  • Dissertatio gradualis, de Carlshamnia, urbe Blekingiæ . Lund 1749.
  • Samling af åtskilliga handlingar och påminnelser, as promoted kunna gifva lius i svänska historien. 3 volumes. Lund 1749-58.
  • Kongl. Rådets, general gouverneurens och fält-marskalkens, gref Rutger von Aschebergs lefwerne, efter trowärdiga och tilförlåteliga handlingar, upsatt och utgifwit Lund 1751.
  • Valley, då hans kungl. Höghet Svea rikes cron prins prins Gustaf första gången benådade kongl. Carolinska academien med sin Höga närvaro d. October 3, 1766. Lund 1766.
  • Monumenta scanensia, quibus varia ad antiquitates Sviogothicas pertinenta capita continentur, academicis ante disputationibus ventilata nunc in unum collecta fasciculum edidit notisque illustravit Sven Bring . 2 volumes. Lund 1744-1751.
  • Nya stats-historien i sammandrag. Til swenska ungdomens tjenst . Stockholm 1777
  • Swea Rikes Historia, Ifrån De äldsta Tidar Til De närwarande. Five volumes (the last unfinished). Stockholm 1769-1786.
  • Sammandrag af Svea-rikes historia . Volumes 1-6. Stockholm 1778-80. The work has also been translated into French.
  • an autobiography edited by Weibull

Many unprinted manuscripts on legal and philosophical topics, lecture concepts, and transcripts of documents are stored in the university libraries of Lund and Uppsala and in the Abbey Library of Linköping.

Remarks

  1. a b Carl Fridrik Rothlieb: Matriculation öfwer Swea rikes ridderskap och adel… Stockholm 1807. P. 290.
  2. "General Auditor" was the highest official in the military justice system. He was a member of the royal supreme court.
  3. "Juris adjunkt" was a teacher at the law school, but still not a professor. He led seminars and gave introductory lectures.
  4. The academy secretary was the head of the university chancellery and was appointed by the king.
  5. Kanzleirat (Kansliråd) the title of the members of the law firm was college. These had the right to speak before the king. The chancellery also had administrative tasks in various areas and was directly subordinate to the Reichsrat. The Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon names the year 1770 for this appointment.

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