FRYXELL, ANDERS, a Swedish historian, was b. in 1795, at Hesselskog, in Daisland; studied at Upsala; took priest's orders in 1820; and in 1828, became rector of St. Mary's school, Stockholm. He afterwards became provost of North Vermland, but resigned this post in 1847. F. first required a reputation by his Ber(Weiser ur Svenska. Histarien, (Narratives from Swedish History, vols. i.-xviii., Stoekh. 1832-52). These narratives, strung together on something of the same plan as sir Walter Scott's Tales of a Grand father. are marked net only by their patriotic sentiment, but by their fresh and natural cohccption, their richness of biographic detail, their naive and vivacious execution, and soon obtained a wide popularity in Sweden. The first volumes of this truly national work have bean repeatedly published, and have been translated into almost all European lan guages; for example, into English by SchouHz (1844), and into German by Homberg (1843). The part devoted to the history of Gustavus Adolphus has also been translated
into German by Homberg (184243), into French by Mlle. N. du Puget (1839), and into Dutch by Radijs (Utrecht, 1844); and that devoted to the history of Gustavus Vasa into German by Ekendahl (1831). F.'s Characteristics of the Period from 1592 to 1000 in Sweden obtained a prize offered by the Swedish academy. Another work, entitled Um i Svenska Historian (4 vols., Upsala, 1845-50), in which he endeavors to clear the Swedish aristocracy from the accusations urged against them by Geijer and others, involved him in a keen controversy with the democratic liberal party in Sweden. F. has also addicted himself to poetry and music; and an opera of his, called Vermland's Fliekan (or " The Lass of Vermland"), has proved very attractive to his countrymen, on account of its fine national melodies.