Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom

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Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom
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Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790 - 1855) was a Swedish romantic poet, and a member of the Swedish Academy.

Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy at the University of Uppsala, he represents one of the most subversive tendencies of Swedish Romanticism, reflecting the aesthetic-religious revolution and the conservative-nationalistic devolution up to the medieval utopias.

He maintained the spiritual and linguistic superiority of the German peoples by the image of an eroic north against a sensual and musical south – in which Italy, even if painted with romantic Sehnsucht, appears as a Deadland.

[edit] Poetry:

"Lisbeth playing the wicked princess" by Carl Larsson -- depicting an enactment of "Blue Bird"
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"Lisbeth playing the wicked princess" by Carl Larsson -- depicting an enactment of "Blue Bird"
  • Blommorna (The Flowers)
  • Fågel Blå (Blue Bird) 1813
  • Lycksalighetens Ö (The Island of Happiness) 1824-27
Preceded by
Pehr Henrik Ling		 Swedish Academy,
Seat No 18
1839-1855		 Succeeded by
Johan Henrik Thomander
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