Magnus Jacob Crusenstolpe

Magnus Jacob Crusenstolpe (11 March 1795, Jönköping – 18 January 1865, Stockholm) was a Swedish historian.

[1] Crusenstolpe won considerable distinction with a series of historical-romantic tales, (Little Stories) but his fame rests mainly on his works as a journalist, historian, biographer, and politician.

In 1838 he was condemned for one of these angry utterances to be imprisoned three years in the Vaxholm Castle on the charge of lèse-majesté, culminating in the Rabulist riots.

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.

[3] Crusenstolpe's first important work was a History of the Early Years of the Life of King Gustavus IV Adolphus (1837),[4] 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,[3] the 5th volume of which was published in 1844.