WENNERBERG, GUNNAR Swedish poet, musician and politician, was born at Lidkoping, of which place his father was parish priest, on Oct. 2, 1817. In his twentieth year he became a student at Upsala. In 1843 he became a mem ber of the musical club who called themselves "The Juvenals," and for their meetings were written the trios and duets, music and words, which Wennerberg began to publish in 1846. In the following year appeared the earliest numbers of Gluntarne (or "The Boys"), thirty duets for baritone and bass, which continued to be issued from 1847 to 1850. These remarkable productions, masterpieces in two parts, presented an epitome of all that was most unique and most attractive in the curious university life of Sweden. In 1850 Wennerberg travelled through Sweden, singing
and reciting in public, and his tour was a long popular triumph. In 186o he published his collected trios, as The Three. He suc ceeded Fahlcrantz in 1866 as one of the eighteen of the Swedish Academy. He was minister for education (Ekklesiastikminister) in the Adlercreutz government (187o-75), and sat first in the lower, then in the upper house of the legislature until he was nearly eighty. He died, on Aug. 24, 1901, at the royal castle of Lecko.