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gunnar olof hyltén-cavallius -lrb- 1818-1889 -rrb- was a swedish scholar of cultural history , librarian , theatre director , and diplomat .
gunnar was the son of a clergyman from vislanda .
while he was a student at the uppsala university , he was impressed with the late currents of gothicismus .
he was an employee at the swedish royal library in the period 1839-1856 , the director of the royal theatres , 1856-1860 , and the chargé d'affaires in empire of brazil , 1860-1864 .
gunnar was early interested in the collection of fairy tales and legends , and together with george stephens , he published the first collection of `` svenska folksagor och äfventyr '' in 1844-1849 .
his main work was `` wärend och wirdarne '' -lrb- 1-2 , 1863-1868 -rrb- , which was inspired both by jacob grimm 's `` deutsche mythologie '' -lrb- 1835 -rrb- and evolutionist theories of sven nilsson .
`` wärend och wirdarne '' can be seen as the foundation of swedish ethnology .
during his last years , he lived in the parish of skatelöv in småland , and his collections were the foundation of the museum of småland in växjö .
