Johan Börjesson

The Reverend
Johan Börjesson
RDDO, LVVS
Born (1790-08-30)August 30, 1790
Tanum, Bohuslän
Died May 6, 1866(1866-05-06) (aged 75)
Occupation Prelate, poet, and dramatist
Language Swedish
Nationality  Sweden
Education Theology
Alma mater Uppsala University
Literary movement Phosphorism
Romanticism
Years active 1814-1866
Spouse Fredrika Gustava Fock
Children 2, including Agnes Börjesson
Relatives Bishop 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. He was holder of chair 3 of the Swedish Academy.[1]

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 initatied 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.[2]

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 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 crowing 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.

At the same time of his initiation in the presbytariate, he published Skapelsen i sånger (1820), which rendered critique from fellow writers.

In 1846 he published the historic play Erik den fjortonde, 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

  • Erik den fjortonde. Stockholm: Bagge. 1846–1861. LIBRIS 1592016.
  • Erik XIV:s son : sorgespel i fem akter. Stockholm: Rylander. 1847. LIBRIS 1591902.
  • Kärlek och poesi. Stockholm: Bagge. 1849. LIBRIS 1591903.
  • Blommor och tdatear på en dotters graf. Stockholm: Bonnier. 1854. LIBRIS 671796.
  • Solen sjunker, Gustaf I:stes sista dagar : historisk tragedi i fyra akter. Stockholm: Bonnier. 1856. LIBRIS 1592025.
  • Ur Carl XIIs ungdom : ett äfventyr i fem akter. Stockholm: Bonnier. 1858. LIBRIS 1591907.
  • Inträdes-tal hållet i Svenska akademien [över C.G. von Brinkman] den 19 mars 1861. Stockholm. 1861. LIBRIS 2985990.
  • En statshvälfning i Rom : sorgespel i fyra akter. Upsala: Schultz. 1866. LIBRIS 1579128.
  • Solen sjunker : historisk tragedi i 4 akter. Svenska teatern, 99-1250025-3; 205. Stockholm: Bonnier. 1873. LIBRIS 1585508.
  • Flera bidrag i Poetisk kalender dateen 1815-1819 i fulltext på Litteraturbanken.

Writings in selection

  • Johan Börjessons valda skrifter med författarens biografi af N. Arfvidsson ; utgifne af L. Dietrichson. Stockholm: Bonnier. 1873–1874. LIBRIS 8208293.
    • 1, Dramatiska dikter. 1873. LIBRIS 8208294.
    • 2, Lyriska dikter. 1874. LIBRIS 8208295.

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. LIBRIS 9002279.
  • Arfvidsson, Nils (1873). Johan Börjesson : lefnadsteckning. Stockholm: Bonnier. LIBRIS 10698302.
  • Dahlgren, Lotten (1907). Ett blad ur den svenska dramatikens historia : [Börjesson]  : med 7 bilder. Stockholm. LIBRIS 2606774.
  • Hippel, Oscar (1921). Ur skalden Johan Börjessons student- och uppsalatid. Uppsala. LIBRIS 1989376.
Cultural offices
Preceded by
Albrecht Elof Ihre		 Swedish Academy,
Chair No 3
1859–1866		 Succeeded by
Hans Magnus Melin
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