Gustaf Fröding

Gustaf Fröding was born on 22 August 1860 at the Alster ironworks, in Värmland, into a family rooted in the world of ironworks and manor houses, and grew up in Kristinehamn from 1867, in a home darkened by illness. He studied at Uppsala without taking a degree, then joined the Karlstads-Tidningen, which employed him until 1896, between long stays in sanatoriums, at Görlitz, then near Lillehammer. Prosecuted in 1896 for a poem judged indecent, he was acquitted; after the collapse of 1898, he hardly wrote any more. He died in Stockholm on 8 February 1911.

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• PoetryGuitar and ConcertinaGuitarr och dragharmonikaGustaf Fröding · 1891LiteraturePublic domain