Pontus Wikner

Carl Pontus Wikner (19 May 1837 – 16 May 1888) was a Swedish lecturer in philosophy and professor of aesthetics in Oslo (Christiania) from 1884.

[citation needed] After studying at Uppsala University, he became an associate professor of theoretical philosophy and senior lecturer there.

In 1884 he was appointed professor of philosophy at Royal Frederick University in Oslo (Christiania) and took up this chair the following year.

Among the latter are a series of philosophical and religious lectures, such as The Sacrifice of Culture, The Narcissus Saga and some historical novels influenced by Viktor Rydberg's style art, excellent for richness of thought, beauty of form and a warm religious spirit: My mother's testament, Mantegna's angel.

Wikner wrote that he had penned the frank confessions for the benefit of fellow homosexuals: "I must speak: I must cry from my grave for mercy for my brothers.