Dahlgren

Dahlgren, KARL FREDRIK, Swedish poet and humorist, born at Stensbruk in Ostergötland, 20th June 1791, studied at Upsala, and acted from 1815 as preacher at Stockholm, where he died, 2d May 1844. As a writer he made his début in Atterbom's Phosphorus, and afterwards published novels, humorous tales, poems, and dramas. His works fill 5 vols. (1847-52).