Axel Gabriel Sjöström

Axel Gabriel Sjöström (16 August 1794 – 11 December 1846) was a Finnish educator and poet. [1]

Biography

He was born in Janakkala, and became professor of Greek Literature at the Imperial Alexander University in Helsinki in 1833. He married Margareta Sofia Helsberg in 1828. During his lifetime a few of his poems earned him a high, but short-lived, reputation in Finnish literary circles. Aside from original poetry, Sjöström also did translations from Greek (Homer, Euripides, Anacreon, Theocritus, and Johan Paulinus-Lillienstedt's Magnus Principatus Finlandia) and German (Goethe and Romantic poets).

Publications

  • De poetica facultate Coluniellae (1815)[2]
  • Juliets uppvaknande och död (1825)
  • Sorgetal öfver Hans Kejserliga Majestet Alexander I, hållet uti Åbo Universitets Solennitets-sal den 4 April 1826 (1826)
  • Taflor af vådelden i Åbo. (1827)
  • Olympiorum ex Pindaro adunibratio (1832)
  • Circa Pindari Pythiorum quartum animadversaria (1845-46)

References

  1. ^ "Sjöström, Axel Gabriel (1794–1846)". kansallisbiografia. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
  2. ^ "Sjöström, A.G.". Writers in Finland 1809-1916 (in Finnish). Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura och Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland. 1993. pp. 708–709. ISBN 951-717-714-3.

Other sources

  • Schoolfield, George C. A History of Finland's Literature, p. 300. University of Nebraska Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-8032-4189-3
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