Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom ( pronunciation: [ ˌ PAE ː ɹ ˌ dɑ ː ˌ niəl ama de ː ː ɵs at əɹbʊm ], born January 19, 1790 at the parish Åsbo; † July 21, 1855 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish poet and literary historian.

Life

Atterbom attended high school and moved from Linköping 1805, the University of Uppsala. With several friends he founded here in 1807 Aurora Bund, a poetic and critical company whose main purpose was to free the patriotic literature from the bonds of French classicism and the academic rigidity and giving it a national revival. Your organ was the magazine Phosphorus ( 1810-15 ), of which the followers of the new literary movement called " Phosphorists " received

Atterboms genii and prosaic essays worked for the purposes of the leaf with strong, but also helped that the bitterness of the academics taught mainly against him. From 1812 to 1822 Atterbom gave the Poetisk out calendar. He traveled in Germany and Italy in 1817-19, upon his return to the Crown Prince Oskar teacher in the German language and literature, on 1821 professor of history at the University of Upsala in 1828 and received the professorship of philosophy there, which he exchanged in 1835 with the aesthetics.

Through his 1839 was included in the Academy of the old dispute between the Phosphorists and the Academy was completely enclosed. Atterbom died July 21, 1855 in Uppsala.

Work

Atterbom was a major, preferably lyrical poetic talent, which was strongly affected only by the influence of Schelling's philosophy and a certain hyper romance, how, especially in the time of his much admired Romance Cycle The Flowers ( " Blommorna " ) shows. Where it occurs naturally and true to nature, as in many of his smaller poems, for example, in the letter addressed to his mother lyrical idyll My wishes ( " Mina önskningar " ) and the cycle minstrel in Sweden ( " minstrelsy Arne i Sverige " ), appears to be talent of high amiability. His main works are the dramatized stories:

  • The island of bliss ( " Lycksalighetens Ö", Upsala 1824-27, 2 vols, . Neus German, Leipzig, 1831-1833, 2 ​​vols ) and
  • Blue Bird ( " Fogel Bla " ), of which latter, however, only be fragments.

From a dramatic point of view, they are not very satisfactory, but contain numerous lyrical effusions of the greatest poetical beauty. Of great merit Atterbom acquired by its literary- historical accounts of

  • Sweden seers and poets ( " Sveriges och Siare skalder ", Uppsala 1841-49, 5 vols ) and the ingenious work
  • Poesiens historia ( Örebro 1861-62, 4 vols ). his
  • Hike memories ( " Vandringsminnen " ), in which he reflects his impressions of the trip, contain a lot of excellent things. A complete edition of his works * Samlade dikter, 6 vols;
  • Samlade Skrifter i obunden style, 7 vols ) appeared Örebro 1854-70.
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