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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: People from Huskvarna, People from Jonkoping, Viktor Rydberg, Dag Hammarskjold, Agnetha Faltskog, Amy Diamond, Johan Davidsson, Fredrik Stillman, Bernhard Karlgren, Jonas Johansson, Carl Peter Thunberg, Nina Persson, Goran Malmqvist, Bjorn Melin, Johan Bjornsson Printz, Johan Halvardsson, Gideon Sundback, John Bauer, Per Engdahl, Tobias Krantz, Felix Rosenqvist, Bjorn Afzelius, Peter David Edstrom, John Edvard Lundstrom, Denni Avdi, Stefan Ornskog, David Petrasek, Sven Olov Lindholm, Carl von Essen, Birger Cederin, Martin Thornberg, Joakim Andersson, Peter Svensson, Holger Lowenadler, Torsten Lilliecrona, Ludde Gentzel, Lars-Olof Johansson. Excerpt: Abraham Viktor Rydberg (Jonkoping, December 18, 1828 - Djursholm, September 21, 1895) was a Swedish writer and a member of the Swedish Academy, 1877-1895. "Primarily a classical idealist," "Viktor Rydberg, poet, novelist, essayist, idealist philosopher and one of the prominent figures in Swedish intellectual life in the latter half of the nineteenth century," has been described as "Sweden's last Romantic" and by 1859 was "generally regarded in the first rank of Swedish novelists." "The leading cultural figure of his day, he also wrote works on philosophy, philology, and aesthetics." As "an idealist faithful to the Romantic tradition in poetry and thought, but with a mind receptive to the ideas of a new age, he achieved an unequalled position of authority in Swedish literature" and "with his broad range of achievements, greatly influenced Swedish cultural life" He came to be described by subsequent biographer Judith Moffett as "a 'man of letters' a journalist, novelist, poet, religious historian, an expert on Norse mythology and the history of ideas, an all-around cultural leader." Of him, a trio of scholars at the University of Cambridge in 1951, write: "One writer, pa...
