Axel Gabriel Sjöström
Axel Gabriel Sjöström (16 August 1794 – 11 December 1846) was a Finnish educator and poet. [1]
Biography
[edit]He was born in Janakkala, and became professor of Greek Literature at the Imperial Alexander University in Helsinki in 1833. He married Margareta Sofia Helsberg in 1828. During his lifetime a few of his poems earned him a high, but short-lived, reputation in Finnish literary circles. Aside from original poetry, Sjöström also did translations from Greek (Homer, Euripides, Anacreon, Theocritus, and Johan Paulinus-Lillienstedt's Magnus Principatus Finlandia) and German (Goethe and Romantic poets).
References
[edit]- ^ "Sjöström, Axel Gabriel (1794–1846)". kansallisbiografia. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
Other sources
[edit]- Schoolfield, George C. A History of Finland's Literature, p. 300. University of Nebraska Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-8032-4189-3
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