Carl Gustaf af Leopold

Carl Gustaf af Leopold (born March 26 (?), 1756, Stockholm, Sweden—died November 9, 1829, Stockholm) was a Swedish court poet in the service of the enlightened monarch Gustav III. After study at Uppsala and Greifswald, Leopold began his career in 1792 with skillful articles and polemical essays propagating the rational ideas of the Enlightenment and parrying the criticism of the younger generation of Romantics. He was disliked by the early Romantics in Sweden because of...