Author · Finland
Frans Michael Franzén
Died in 1847
Frans Michael Franzén was born in 1772 in Uleåborg, the son of a merchant. A student at Åbo from 1785 and a pupil of Henrik Gabriel Porthan, he took his master of arts in 1789, edited the town's newspaper from 1794, then travelled in 1795 and 1796 to Denmark, Germany, France and England. Librarian of the academy, professor in 1798 and again in 1801, he was ordained a priest in 1803 and moved to Sweden in 1811. Elected to the Swedish Academy in 1808, he was its secretary for ten years, became bishop of Härnösand in 1831 and died in 1847.
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- PoetrySång öfver grefve Gustaf Philip CreutzFrans Michael Franzén · 1797not translated into EnglishLiterature