1. Viktor Rydberg was the son of a soldier turned prison guard, Johan Rydberg, and a midwife, Hedvig Duker.
18 Facts About Viktor Rydberg
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Viktor Rydberg's death broke the spirit of his father, who yielded to hypochondria and alcoholism, contributing towards his loss of employment and the family's apartment, forcing authorities to board young Viktor out to a series of foster homes, one of which burnt down, further traumatizing the youth.
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From 1838 to 1847, Rydberg attended grammar school, and studied law at the University of Lund from 1851 to 1852.
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Viktor Rydberg soon became a central figure of late Romanticism in Sweden, and Sweden's most famous living author.
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Around this time, he advocated a more Germanic spelling of his own name: Viktor Rydberg, as opposed to Victor.
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Viktor Rydberg served from 1883 as teacher, from 1884 as professor, of the History of Culture at Stockholms hogskola, now Stockholm University, and from 1889 as the first holder of the J A Berg Chair of the History and Theory of Art there.
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Viktor Rydberg died at the age of 66 on 21 September 1895 due to complications from diabetes and arteriosclerosis.
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Viktor Rydberg's works are widely read in schools throughout Sweden, and his poem "Tomten" is a Christmas favorite, as well as the lyrics for Glans over sjo och strand.
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Viktor Rydberg is still listed in many English language encyclopedias as an individual entry.
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Svanberg and Stolpe suggested that Viktor Rydberg had a homosexual orientation, based on their interpretations of Viktor Rydberg's published works.
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Viktor Rydberg's next work, Medeltidens Magi 1865 is an exposition of the magical practices and beliefs of the Medieval period.
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From this point forward, Viktor Rydberg was economically successful as a writer.
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Viktor Rydberg's ideas are not the shadows of others, they are his by strong conviction.
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Viktor Rydberg shared this anxiety: he was very critical to industrialism and unhealthy milieu of the big European metropolises,.
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In contrast to Kidd's optimistic Darwinism, Viktor Rydberg foresaw the possibility of European culture being overcome by the more industrious and more prolific Chinese nation.
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Viktor Rydberg predicted that the downfall would come in the very near future and would come about because of moral degeneration, demographic conditions, and the ensuing defects in the population.
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Viktor Rydberg has been mentioned as one of several writers who proposed analogs of Ask and Embla in comparative mythology, and who sought Indo-Iranian analogs for the Poetic Edda poem, Voluspa.
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The sagacious Swedish scholar V Rydberg argued in the same way, considering him only more particularly to be connected with the heavenly fire, the lightning; this seems to be shown by the etymological meaning of the names Byleistr and Farbauti both parents of Loki.