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Erik Gustaf Geijer - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | ERIK GUSTAF GEIJER (1783-1847), Swedish historian, was born at Ransater in Varmland, on the 12th of January 1783, of a family that had immigrated from Austria in the 17th century. |
 | | Geijer's researches in its preparation had severely strained his health, and he went the same year on a tour through Denmark and part of Germany, his impressions from which are recorded in his Minnen. |
 | | Geijer came to the writing of history fresh from researches in the whole field of Scandinavian antiquity, researches whose first-fruits are garnered in numerous articles in Iduna, and his masterly treatise Om den gamla nordiska folkvisan, prefixed to the collection of Svenska folkvisor which he edited with A. Afzelius (3 vols., 1814-1816). |
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