Atterbon

Atterbon, PETER DANIEL AMADEUS, Swedish poet, was born at Asbo in East Gotland in 1790, and in 1805 proceeded from the gymnasium of Linköping to the university of Upsala, where he was appointed professor of Logic (1828) and of Aesthetics (1835). He died 21st July 1855. Atterbon was the leader of the Swedish Romanticists, called 'Fosphoristerna' from their organ Phosphorus (1810-14), of which he was editor, as also of the Poetisk Kalender (1812-22). His works, which present a curious blending of the hyper-romantic with German philosophy, fill thirteen volumes (1854-70). The best are Lycksalighetens O ('Island of Happiness'), and a cycle of romances, Bloommorna ('The Flowers').