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Crusenstolpe, Magnus Jakob, 1795-1865

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Personal name headingCrusenstolpe, Magnus Jakob, 1795-1865
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Birth date17950311
Death date18650118
Place of birthJönköping, Sweden
Place of deathStockholm, Sweden
Profession or occupationhistorian
political writer
Found inDer 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)