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Viktor Rydberg

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Abraham Viktor Rydberg
Born:
Dec. 18, 1828, Jönköping, Swed.
Died:
Sept. 21, 1895, Djursholm (aged 66)
Movement / Style:
Romanticism
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Viktor Rydberg (born Dec. 18, 1828, Jönköping, Swed.—died Sept. 21, 1895, Djursholm) was an author of the Romantic school who, with his broad range of achievements, greatly influenced Swedish cultural life. Rydberg grew up among strangers, with no home of his own; his mother had died in a cholera epidemic, and his father became an alcoholic. He had to break off his studies for lack of money. In 1855 he began to work for the liberal newspaper Göteborgs handelstidning, in which Den siste Atenaren (The Last Athenian), the novel that made his name, appeared serially in 1859. Its description of ...(100 of 420 words)

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