Lorenzo Hammarsköld

Lorenzo Hammarsköld (b. Lars Hammarskjöld, 7 April 1785 – 15 October 1827) was a Swedish critic and literary historian.

He therefore accepted a humble post at the royal library at Stockholm, with which institution he remained connected for many years.

[1] In 1804 he published an article on Ludwig Tieck and Novalis, which attracted much attention, and was the means of founding the “Phosphoric School,” as it was called, of poetry in Sweden.

Hammarsköld became the friend of Atterbom and antagonist of Wallmark, and in due time, by the bitterness of his tone, brought down on himself the scathing anger of Esaias Tegnér.

In 1818 appeared the first part of Hammarsköld's chief contribution to literature, his famous Svenska Vitterheten, a history of polite letters in Sweden, a book that was revised and republished after his death by Sondén, in 1833.