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Abraham Viktor Rydberg

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Abraham Viktor Rydberg , 1828-95, Swedish philosopher and writer. Singoalla (1857), a romantic and mystical story of medieval times, was his first major work. His polemical novel The Last Athenian (1859, tr. 1869) contrasted Hellenic tolerance and humanism with Christian dogmatism and bigotry. In The Teaching of the Bible about Christ (1862), he opposed fundamentalist Christian views. Rydberg's verse is distinguished for its majestic lyricism and for its sense of the mystery of human existence. ... Read more
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...author, and activist for women's rights. Another major spokesman for an idealistic vision was the philosopher Abraham Viktor Rydberg . The first true realism appeared with the dramatist August Strindberg and a group of writers called the Young... Read more

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