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Also Known As Abraham Viktor Rydberg
Born December 18, 1828 • Jönköping • Sweden
Died September 21, 1895 (aged 66) • Sweden
Notable Works “Bibelns Lära om Kristus” • “The Last Athenian”
Movement / Style Romanticism
Almqvist, detail of an oil painting by C.P. Mazer, 1836, in the Nordiska Museet,Stockholm
Carl Jonas Love Almqvist
Swedish author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
Scottish writer
Alessandro Manzoni, oil painting by Francesco Hayez; in the Brera Gallery, Milan.
Alessandro Manzoni
Italian author
Bernhard Severin Ingemann, detail of a pencil-and-watercolour drawing by H. Olrik, 1860; in the Nationalhistoriske Museum at Frederiksborg, Denmark.
Bernhard Severin Ingemann
Danish author
Heidenstam
Verner von Heidenstam
Swedish author
Levertin, oil painting by C.O. Larsson, 1906; in the Bonniers' Collection, Stockholm
Oscar Ivar Levertin
Swedish poet and scholar
Atterbom
Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom
Swedish author
Lidner, detail of an oil painting by Carl-Fredrik von Breda; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden
Bengt Lidner
Swedish poet
Stagnelius, portrait by Julius Alexis Wetterbergh
Erik Johan Stagnelius
Swedish poet
Lermontov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lermontov
Russian writer
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Théophile Gautier
French author
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Alexandre Herculano
Portuguese historian
Hendrik Conscience, oil painting on wood by Henri de Pondt; in the Stedelijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Kortrijk, Belg.
Hendrik Conscience
Belgian novelist
Alexandre Dumas.
Alexandre Dumas, père
French author [1802–1870]
Garrett, João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida, visconde (viscount) de Almeida Garrett
João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, viscount de Almeida Garrett
Portuguese writer
Eichendorff, Joseph, freiherr von
Joseph, baron von Eichendorff
German writer
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José de Espronceda y Delgado
Spanish poet

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