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<date by Hegel himself. Anders Lidbeck (177-2—1829), the first professor of
aesthetics at Lund (appointed 1801) discussed the new aesthetics in a number
of dissertations, and attempted to compare their chief result with English
empiricism. The study of the aesthetics of Kant and Schiller acquired decisive
importance for the poet Esaias Tegner (1786—1846), who acted as lecturer and
.assistent professor in aesthetics from 1803 to 1812, and it was from this source
that he took the inspiration for his own views on art. Another disciple of
Kant and Schiller was Samuel Grubbe (1786—1853), who, in his lectures on
"Det sköna och konstens filosofi" (The Beautiful and the Philosophy of Art),
which were published posthumously, treated aesthetic problems with uncommon
lucidity.
Swedish romanticists took a keen interest in the aesthetic science. They
gave a metaphysical interpretation of the beautiful and regarded it as the
.supreme revelation of the divine. Shelling exercised a powerful influence on
Hammarskjöld, Atterbom, and Geijer. Lorenzo Hammarskjöld (1785—1827)
appeared as the defiant controversialist of the new school and combated reflective
poetry in the pamphlets which he levelled at Schiller, Leopold and Tegnér.
He also rendered great service to the history of literature by his "Svenska
vitterheten" (Swedish Literature), which was the first work of its kind. Per
Daniel Atterbom (1790—1855) at an early age entered deeply into aesthetic
[speculation. A great number of his works — "Fågel Blå" (Blue Bird),
"Lycksalighetens ö" (The Isle of Bliss) — are poetryr about poetry. In 1835 he became
professor of aesthetics at Uppsala and published several discussions of aesthetic
principles, such as "Ästhetiska betraktelser" (Aesthetic Reflections) in 1836, and
"Ästhetiska begrepp" (Aesthetic Conceptions) in 1837. His delicately executed
■essays on literature, "Svenska siare och skalder" (Swedish Seers and Bards),
are also of great importance. Erik Gustav Geijer (1783—1847) has enriched
Swedish aesthetic literature with some of its most important dissertations,
:such as the clever prize essay "Om inbillningsgåvans betydelse för uppfostran"
<(On the Importance of Imagination in Education), which is a Swedish
counterpart to Schiller’s "Briefe iiber die ästhetisclie Erziehung"; "Inledningen om den
gamla nordiska folkvisan" (Introduction to the Old Northern Folk Song); and
"Betraktelser i avseende på de nordiska myternas användande i skön konst"
(Reflections on the application of Scandinavian Myths to Fine Art). Towards
the end of his life Geijer advanced to a more realistic view of poetry. K. J. L.
Almquist (1793—1866), a curious mixture of romantic mysticism and realism,
•discussed aesthetic questions in a number of works which bear witness to the
brilliant acuteness of his perception. Mention may be made in particular of
his essay "Om poesi i sak" (On Matter in Poetry), together with "Den sansade
kritiken" (Moderate Criticism), in which the metaphysical interpretation of mental
^analogies contains a system of aesthetics in nuce.
The aesthetics of Hegel have also found prominent representatives in Sweden
in the persons of Bernhard Elis Malmström (1816—65), professor at Uppsala,
and Gustav Ljunggren (1823—1905), professor of aesthetics at Lund. The
former wrote a number of remarkably lucid essays on aesthetics, such as "Om
konstens väsende och betydelse" (The Essence and Significance of art), and
"Om det natursköna" (The naturally beautiful); the latter has left us a complete
-critical exposition of the principal systems of aesthetics from Kant to Vischer.
Prof. Karl Rupert Nyblom (1832—1907) adopted a critical attitude towards
speculative aesthetics in his essay "Innehåll och form i konsten" (Substance and
Form in Art), and in his work "Skönhetslärans huvudbegrepp" (Fundamental
Ideas in the Study of the Beautiful) he attempted to lay the foundations for
an empirical system of aesthetics. The poet Viktor Rydberg (1828—95) built
aip an idealistic system of aesthetics on an empirical basis in his lectures "Det
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