Axel Gabriel Sjöström
Axel Gabriel Sjöström (16 August 1794 – 11 December 1846) was a Finnish educator and poet. [1]
Biography[]
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 's Magnus Principatus Finlandia) and German (Goethe and Romantic poets).
References[]
- ^ "Sjöström, Axel Gabriel (1794–1846)". kansallisbiografia. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
Other sources[]
- 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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- 1794 births
- 1846 deaths
- Finnish male poets
- People from Janakkala
- 19th-century Finnish poets
- 19th-century male writers
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