CRUSENSTOLPE, MAGNUS JAKOB, a Swedish political and miscellaneous writer, was born at Joukapiug March 11th, 1795. His grandfather, who had been eunubled by King Adolphus Frederic and raised to a judicial post, was degraded and redneed to the bar in 1773 by Gustavus III., on account of his political opiuions, which were adverse to the ' regal revolution,' as it has been called, which had been effected by that monarch. The grandson pursued for some time a legal career, but was compelled to resign the offices he held in 1831, and has since supported himself on the profits of his literary works, and of a.prize in the lottery which lie was fortunate enough to win in 1837. For one of his works, Stallningar och Forhallanden ' (' Positions and Relations'), which contained a series of aneedotea and observations reflecting on the government, he was tried in 1833, and condemned to three ye irs' imprisonment in the fortress of Waxliolm. His con demnation gave rise to a series of riots, which led to loss of life.
While undergoing his imprisonment, he composed his most popular work, 'Morianen,' which, in the form of a romance, comprises in fact an embellished history of the house of Holstein Gettorp on the throuo of Sweden. Another of his works, ' Carl Johau och Sveuskarne ' (' Charles John and the Swedes '), presents a picture of the times of Bernadotte, extremely entertaining to read, hut in which the reader is continually at a loss to knew how much is fact and how much fiction. Another, the 'Historical Picture of the First Years of Gustavus IV.,' is more satisfactory in this ref pect, as avowedly and entirely historical; its materials are chiefly taken from the manuscripts of the Tessin library, which Crusenatolpe had purchased. A list of the whole of his works, which arc numerous, is given in Palmblad's 'Biographical Lexicon.'