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THE‘SWEDISH POET TEGNER.
We have already announced the death of this highly
gifted man. The Berlingsche Zeitung of the 12th says:—
" The Skald (Swedish bard) of Axel and Frithioff,
Bishop Eialas Tegriar, is no more. After having expe-
rienced s*,, indifferent health for several years, and
after having been exposed to not less than six strokes
of apoplexy, he fell asleep without pain, tranquilly and
peacefully, on the 11th day after the last attack, viz.,
on Monday, the 2d of November, at half-past eleven at
night, aged 64. Esaias Tegrer was born on the 13th of
Novembel., 1782, at Hyfkerad, in the Bishopric of Carl-
stadt. At the age of 17 he was a student in Lund; in
the year 1800 he was amanuensis there in the Academi-
cal Library; he received the best character (laudatur) at
the examination of the candidates for philosophical de-
grees from all the professors, and was in this way
magisier prirnus, and soon after a professor of cesthetics.
Some time afterwards he was academical adjunct in Lund.
In 1806 he was simultaneously appointed to the vice-
bibliothecal chair, and notary to the Philosophical Fa-
culty. He thereupon married a young lady belonging
to the family in which he had at an earlier period of his
life been domestic tutor, Mademoiselle A. M. G. Mylir-
man and in 1811 the Swedish Academy honoured his
Skald poem, Swea, with their high approbation. A year
afterwawith a suspension of all the cus-
tomaryrfdors,msh,e was,elected Professor of Greek Literature to
the University of Lund, and appointed pastor-prebend
of Staelje. It was on his induction into holy orders
that he wrote the poem, so resplendent with celestial
beauty, on The Ordination of Priests. Axel was now
composed, and niiblished ; then The Night Watchtower
Sentry's Child; subsequently his " epilogue to the pro-
motion in Lund in 1820,' and " Sorg on the Tun,"
which Leopold places in the first rank amongst all his
minor poems, as well as the celebrated Frithioff Saga,
which, according to Franzen's judgment, raised Tegier
to the rapk of the most eminent poets of modern times,
and diffused his name, not only throughout Europe, but
even to the other extremities of the globe. The poet
now assumed Oxenstiern's place in the Swedish Aca-
demy; and in 1824, the same year in which his Frithigif
immortalised his name, he was made Bishop of Wexio.
Of the manner in which, as president of the schools and
churches, he fulfilled his sacred calling, evidence is af-
forded by several of his discourses, and the remarkable
proceedings of the assemblies of preachers in 1836. Im-
mediately after his appointment to the bishopric he be-
came a Knight-Commander of the Order of the Northern
Star, the small cross of which he had already received
when professor. From this period he only sound his
tuneful lyre on casual occasions; but there is gro for
hope that a by no means inconsiderable number of new
and longer poems will be found bequeathed by him to
posterity. Francis Michael Franzen, who some years
ago wrote a biography of Tegnar, concluded it in these
words:---‘ Although the northernly element forms partly
the spirit, and partly the staple of his poems, his poesy
is nevertheless deeply imbued with southern luxuriance
and beauty. With respect to his fresh and brilliant co-
louring, and the richness of his imagery and ideas, he
might be compared to an orange tree, whose powerful
and wholly green tints are adorned with ripe fruit by the
side of newly-burst blossoms. In short, Tegnar's death
is an alnynt irreparable loss to the lovers of Swedish
literature, the most beautiful, of its kind, that exists in
a language.'"