Anton Niklas Sundberg

Anton Niklas Sundberg ( born May 27, 1818 in Uddevalla, † February 2nd 1900 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish Lutheran theologian and Archbishop of Uppsala.

Life

Sundberg studied Protestant theology at Uppsala University and was ordained in 1845 after Kandidatexamen. In 1849 he was an adjunct at the Theological Faculty of the University of Lund and in 1852 obtained a professorship of dogmatics and moral theology ibid. In 1857 he moved to the chair of church history and was, according to the degree of Dr. theol. 1860, 1861 part-time dean in the diocese of Lund, and Rector of the University. From 1864 to 1870 he was bishop in Karlstad and represented as such the minister stand in the last stands the Reichstag 1866. 1870 he appeared as a successor of Henrik Reuterdahl his service as Archbishop of Uppsala and served until his death more than the highest representative of the Church of Sweden (as each other after the Reformation ). As an elected representative, he also belonged to the Reichstag (with interruptions ) until 1892 and was from 1867 to 1872 Parliament President of the Second Chamber, 1877-1880 the first chamber.

Importance

Even in the time as a professor in Lund was Sundberg as one of the most important representatives of the High Church Lutheranism in Sweden. In the low tide with Gustaf Bring (1814-1884) and Wilhelm Flensburg (1819-1897) published Swensk Kyrkotidning (1855-1864), he argued for a close connection between church and state, and thus against the Freikirchentum. As archbishop, he called for a Christian social policy to combat the materialism of the labor movement.

Honors

Sundberg received in 1873 the Royal Seraphinenorden, and later the North Star Medal ( as a commander ). In 1874 he was elected to the Swedish Academy and the Kungliga och Vitterhets History Antikvitets Academies, 1877 in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 1879 awarded him the Law Faculty of the University of Copenhagen with an honorary doctorate.