LC control no. | no2011140038 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Crusenstolpe, Magnus Jakob, 1795-1865 |
Birth date | 17950311 |
Death date | 18650118 |
Place of birth | Jönköping, Sweden |
Place of death | Stockholm, Sweden |
Profession or occupation | historian political writer |
Found in | Der Versailler Hof, 1855-62: title page (Magnus Jakob Crusenstolpe) FacsNet.org, via WWW, September 7, 2011 (Magnus Jakob Crusenstolpe; a Swedish political writer; born March 11, 1795 in Jönköping; pursued a legal career, but was compelled to resign the offices he held in 1831; he then supported himself on the profits of his literary works and from the winning of a lottery he won in 1837; for one of his works, which contained a series of observations reflecting on the government, he was tried in 1833 and condemned to three years imprisonment in the fortress of Vaxholm) Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911 (Crusenstolpe, Magnus Jacob (1795-1865); Swedish historian; became famous both as a political and a historical writer; his first important work was a History of the Early Years of the Life of King Gustavus IV Adolphus (1837) which was followed by a series of monographs and by some politico-historical novels, of which The House of Holstein-Gottorp in Sweden is considered the best; in 1838 he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for his bitter attacks on the Government; died in Stockholm on January 18, 1865) |