CRUSENSTOLPE, MAGNUS JAKOB Swedish historian, was born at Jonkoping on March 11, His first important work was a History of the Early Years of the Life of King Gustavus IV. Adolphus (1837) which was followed by a series of monographs and by some politico-historical novels, of which The House of Holstein-Gottorp in Sweden is considered the best. In 1838 he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for his bitter attacks on the Government. Few Swedish writers have wielded so pure and so incisive a style as Crusenstolpe, but his historical work is vitiated by political and personal bias. He died at Stockholm on Jan. 18, 1865.