Nils Johan Ekdahl
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Theology
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, political writer and cultural historian.
Student in Lund
Lund
-Main sights:During the 12th and 13th centuries, when the town was the seat of the archbishop, many churches and monasteries were built. At its peak, Lund had 27 churches, but most of them were demolished as result of the Reformation in 1536. Several medieval buildings remain, including Lund...
in 1820, ordination as pastor in 1822, employed as a preacher in Stockholm in 1825. In his spare time, he devoted himself to historical and archaeological research, and traveled from 1827 to 1830 through the landscape of Norrland
Norrland
Norrland is one of the three lands of Sweden , the northern part, consisting of nine provinces. The term Norrland is not used for any administrative purpose, but it is common in everyday language, e.g...
in the north of Sweden, about which he reports in his treatise Om vattuminskningen i norra poltrakterna (1865).
In his last years of life Ekdahl was also a staunch supporter of the Iceland
Iceland
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ic theologian Magnús Eiríksson
Magnús Eiríksson
Magnús Eiríksson was an Icelandic theologian and a contemporary critic of Søren Aabye Kierkegaard and Hans Lassen Martensen in Copenhagen....
(1806–1881), of whom he translated two books into Swedish
Swedish language
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Main works
- Några data ur en 13:årig embetsverksamhet till förklarande af en 6 månaders ofrivillig overksamhet, Stockholm 1851.
- Högmesso-predikan på klagodagen, den 14 augusti 1859, hållen i Adolf Fredriks kyrka, Stockholm 1859.
- Den norska frågans historik, Stockholm 1860.
- Predikan vid Jubelfesten den 4 november 1864, Stockholm 1864.
- Om vattuminskningen i norra poltrakterna, dess orsaker och dess följder : embetsberättelse, Stockholm 1865.
- Om osedligheten i Stockholm och dess botemedel, Stockholm 1866.
Secondary literature on Ekdahl
- Harald Ossian Wieselgren, "Ekdahl, Nils Johan," in Nordisk Familjebok: Konversationslexikon och Realencyklopedi, vol. 4, Stockholm 1881, cols. 294-295.
- P. A. Wallmark, "Ekdahl, Nils Johan," in Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon, 2. ed. 1906, vol. 1, p. 283.