CREUTZ, GUSTAF FILIP, COUNT Swedish poet, was born in Finland and educated at Abo. He received a post in the court of chancery at Stockholm in 1751. Here he met Count Gyllenborg, with whom his name is indissolubly connected. They were closely allied with Fru Nordenflycht, and their works were published in common. Creutz's greatest work is contained in the 1762 volume, the idyll of Atis och Camilla; the exquisite little pastoral entitled "Daphne" was published at the same time, and Gyllenborg was the first to proclaim the supremacy of his friend. In 1763 Creutz practically closed his poetical career; he went to Madrid as ambassador, and after three years to Paris in the same capacity. In 1783 Gustavus III. recalled him and heaped honours upon him. He died on Oct. 30, .1785. Atis och Camilla was long the most admired poem in the Swedish language. Creutz introduced a melody and grace into the Swedish tongue which it lacked before, and he has been styled "the last artificer of the language." See Creutz och Gyllenborgs Vitterhetsarbeten (Stockholm, ; A. Hultin, Gustaf Filip Creutz, hares leovnad och vittra skrifter (Helsingfors, 1886 etc.) . Selections of Creutz's work are also to be found in E. P. L. Meyer, Svenska Parnassen, vol. 2 (1889) and 0. Levertin, Sveri'zes National-Litteratur, 1500-1900, vol. 3 (1907, etc.).