Anders Leonard Bygdén

Anders Leonard Bygdén
Born Anders Leonard Bygdén
(1844-03-03)March 3, 1844
Spånga, Sweden
Died November 22, 1929(1929-11-22) (aged 85)
Uppsala, Sweden
Education Uppsala University

Anders Leonard Bygdén (3 March 1844 – 22 November 1929) was a Swedish historian and author. He founded the Swedish Literature Society in 1880.[1][2]

Biography

He was born on 3 March 1844 in Spånga, Sweden to Olof Bygdén.[3] Bygdén enrolled at Uppsala University in 1863 and graduated with a B.A. in 1870 and Ph.D. in 1872.[3] The university then hired him as an associate professor of philosophy. He founded the Swedish Literature Society with Henrik Schück in 1880. He was made a member of the Royal Faculty of Science Society in Uppsala in 1890 and the Royal Society for the Issuance of Manuscripts Relating to Scandinavian history in 1899. He published Hernösands Stifts Herdaminne from 1923 to 1928. He died on 22 November 1929 in Uppsala, Sweden.[1][4]

Publications

References

  1. 1 2 "Anders Leonard Bygdén". Svensk biografisk handbok. 1925. p. 116.
  2. ↑ Erik Lindorm (1979). Gustaf V och hans tid: en bokfilm (1928-1938). Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand. p. 99. ISBN 91-46-13379-8.
  3. 1 2 "Anders Leonard Bygdén". Retrieved 2015-08-19. F. i Spånga, Stlilms län, 1844/3/3. Stud. i Upps. 63; fil. kand. 70; fil. dokt. 72. Docent i teor. filosofi vid Upps. univ. 72; lidénsk aman. vid univ.-biblioteket 75; fil. fakultetens notarie 77-91; förste åman. vid biblioteket 81; vice bibliotekarie fr. 84.
  4. ↑ Anders Leonard Bygdén. 1929.
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