Erik Gustaf Geijer

Erik Gustaf Geijer ( born January 12, 1783 Court Ransäter, community Munkfors, † April 23, 1847 in Stockholm) is one of the most important Swedish writers of romance, and was active as a composer.

Erik Gustaf Geijer was born the son of a factory owner in Värmland. After a happy youth, he came in 1799 to Uppsala to study. His studies dragged on because he was not clear about what he wanted to do. From 1809 to 1810 he worked as a tutor in England. After his return he published the font Om inbillningskraftens canting på uppfostran ( On the influence of the imagination on the education ), in which he turned to the ideal of the Enlightenment reason and from the imagination of romance. He began to work as a private tutor in Stockholm.

Erik Gustaf Geijer in 1817 received a professorship in history at the University of Uppsala. As a poet, he fell silent, the more he devoted himself to history. The study of history, a journey through Germany in 1825 and the contact with liberal writers brought Geijer to reconsider its reactionary - conservative point of view in politics and presentation of history. Even literary he withdrew gradually from Romanticism and bowed a more on realism -oriented literature, such as his memoirs Minnen ( memories ) from the 1834 show. In 1838 he took officially the waste from the conservatism and the transition to liberalism in the first issue of the journal literature - Bladet.

His later lyrical production consisted of a number of short simple poems to music, which he composed himself. Geijer also composed instrumental pieces, including piano sonatas, string quartets and choruses wrote.

Geijers importance for the Swedish language lies in the fact that he is one of the biggest creators of winged words and phrases that still occur in everyday language. Even today's Swedish greeting Hey probably dates from the goetic covenant.