Almqvist, KARL JONAS LUDVIG

Almqvist, KARL JONAS LUDVIG, a Swedish author, was born at Stockholm in 1793, and died in 1866 at Bremen, after a singular career, in which he once had to flee as a forger and a suspected would-be assassin to America, where he became Abraham Lincoln's secretary. His works, a selection from which fills 4 vols. (1875), included his masterpiece, Törnrosens Bok, and other poems, besides novels, plays, and historical, critical, and philosophical writings.