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Swedish prelate, poet, and dramatist

The Reverend
Johan Börjesson
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Johan Börjesson in Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon.Johan Börjesson
in Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon.
Born(1790-08-30)30 August 1790
Tanum, Sweden
Died6 May 1866(1866-05-06) (aged 75)
OccupationPrelate, poet, and dramatist
LanguageSwedish
NationalitySwedish
EducationTheology
Alma materUppsala University
Literary movementPhosphorism
Romanticism
Years active1814–1866
SpouseFredrika Gustava Fock
Children2, including Agnes Börjesson
RelativesBishop Johan Wingård (uncle)
Archbishop Carl Fredrik af Wingård (cousin)
Freiherr sv:Berndt Wilhelm Fock (father-in-law)

Johan Börjesson (30 August 1790 – 6 May 1866) was a Swedish prelate, poet, and dramatist, associated with the Swedish phosphorist and romanticist movements. He was holder of chair 3 of the Swedish Academy.

Biography

Johan Börjesson was born in Tanum, Bohuslän, in 1790 to Börje Hansson and Agneta Wingård. His uncle was Bishop Johan Wingård, his cousin Archbishop Carl Fredrik af Wingård. He enrolled at Uppsala University in 1808, graduated in 1815, and was ordinated priest in the Church of Sweden in 1816. While in Uppsala, Börjesson was admitted to the romanticist society Aurora, where he initiated his poetic endeavours, although he never quite embraced the movement's ideals.

Johan Börjesson married Fredrika Gustava Fock, the daughter of Freiherr sv:Berndt Wilhelm Fock, in 1823. They had two daughters, of which one survived into adulthood, the artist Agnes Börjesson, who became one of the four first women admitted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.

Later in life, in the early 1860s, his manse was visited by the British novelist Horace Marryat who subsequently published a travelogue, One year in Sweden (published 1862; Swedish translation 1863), based in his impressions and findings while staying with the family.

After a long time on the countryside, towards the last few months of his life he returned to Uppsala.

Presbytariate

Johan Börjesson as prelate in Uppsala (circa 1820).

Following his ordination into priesthood, he was designated adjunct [sv] in Uppsala parish, Archdiocese of Uppsala, and in 1820 its attorney. His preaching gained reputation, and in 1821 he was admitted as preacher at the Royal Court of Sweden. He was appointed vicar in three parishes in the Archdiocese of Uppsala in 1828, whereafter elevated to provost in 1840. At the time of the Coronation of King Oscar I of Sweden in 1844, he was promoted to Doctor of Theology.

Literature

Already in 1814 he won the Grand Prize of the Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Gothenburg, its highest prize, for the work Aphrodite. The same year, he was admitted to the Poetisk Kalender of Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom.

Around the time of his initiation to the presbytariate, he published Skapelsen i sånger (1820), which however was not well met by the critics.

In 1846 he published the historic play Erik den fjortonde, reportedly the first modern historical play in Sweden, which was set up on scene with pleased reviews. After this followed plays like Erik den fjortondes son (1847), Solen sjunker, Gustaf I:s sista dagar (1856), Ur Karl XII:s ungdom (1858), Brödraskulden, and Erik den Fjortonde, senare avdelningen (1861). He also resumed his lyrical writings; in 1849 Kärlek och poesi was anonymously published, in 1854 Blommor och tårar på en dotters grav, the latter after the death of his daughter Amanda. Börjesson had just finished another play, En sammansvärjning i Rom, including his very last poem Afsked till publiken och kritiken, when he died in the spring of 1866.

Bibliography

Writings in selection

  • Johan Börjessons valda skrifter med författarens biografi af N. Arfvidsson; utgifne af L. Dietrichson. Stockholm: Bonnier. 1873–1874. SELIBR 8208293.

Distinctions

References

  1. Johan Börjesson, författarpresentation hos Litteraturbanken
  2. Kungs-Husby i Trögd Kungsgård, kyrka och socken, Studier till Det Medeltida Sverige 6, RAÄ

Further reading

  • Ahlquist, Otto (1920). "Skalden Johan Börjesson : tal vid Vikarfstinget i Lysekil den 10 aug. 1918". Vikarvet. 1920 (4): 7–15. ISSN 0349-0351. SELIBR 9002279.
  • Arfvidsson, Nils (1873). Johan Börjesson : lefnadsteckning. Stockholm: Bonnier. SELIBR 10698302.
  • Dahlgren, Lotten (1907). Ett blad ur den svenska dramatikens historia :  : med 7 bilder. Stockholm. SELIBR 2606774.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Hippel, Oscar (1921). Ur skalden Johan Börjessons student- och uppsalatid. Uppsala. SELIBR 1989376.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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Cultural offices
Preceded byAlbrecht Elof Ihre Swedish Academy,
Chair No 3
1859–1866 		Succeeded byHans Magnus Melin
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