Nordisk familjebok

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[2] Linder drew up a plan for the work, designed the editorial team and created a large circle of experts and literary figures, who submitted article proposals and wrote and reviewed them.

Much attention was paid to Nordic subjects, mainly Swedish and Finnish, where sources and models were often lacking, so extensive and time-consuming pioneering work had to be done.

The author continues by complaining about there being a very lazy interest in religious matters and concludes: "to all these joint circumstances, one can hardly defend oneself against the thought of future threatening dangers".

[6] Linder was editor until 1880, when he was succeeded by lexicographer John Rosén [sv], first archivist at the National Archives Theodor Westrin, and B. F.