Jacob Frese

Jacob Frese was born in Viborg around 1690, the son of the town councillor Jochum Frese, from a family of merchants of German origin, and in 1703 was enrolled with his elder brothers at the Academy of Åbo. The capture of his town by the Russians in 1710 swept away the family fortune; he reached Stockholm in 1711 and served there as a supernumerary clerk of the royal chancery, was for a year secretary to the governor of Scania, and obtained a permanent post only in 1724. Ill every spring since 1712, unmarried and poor, an admirer of Charles XII, he died in Stockholm on 31 August 1729.

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• PoetryAndelige och werldslige dikterJacob Frese · 1726not translated into EnglishLiterature