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A Swedish poet; born at Goteborg (Gothenburg), March 16, 1757; died at Stockholm, Jan. 4, 1793. He published a volume of "Fables" after the manner of Lafontaine (1799). In 1781 he was secretary to the Swedish envoy at Paris, and there wrote the tragedy "Erik the Fjortonde". He lost his secretaryship through his dissipations. He was a highly gifted poet; but his poems were, like his life, irregular, lacking sobriety and dignity. The best of them are: "Spastaras Dod" (1783); "Aret", (1783); "Ythersta Domen"; and the opera "Medea".