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Carl David af Wirsén (December 9, 1842 - June 12, 1912) was a Swedish poet, literary critic and the Swedish Academy's permanent secretary 1884-1912. ==Career== Wirsén was born in Vallentuna, Uppland, to Karl Ture af Wirsén and Eleonore von Schulzenheim. He was also for several years, in company with the historian Hans Forssell, editor of the ''Swedish Literary Review''. In 1870, he became a lecturer in Swedish and Latin at Katedralskolan in Uppsala. In 1876 he moved to Gothenburg, where he lectured and took care of the museum's library and art collections. In 1879 he succeeded Carl Wilhelm Böttiger to the seat 8 of the Swedish Academy, and moved the year after to Stockholm, where he became literary reviewer for the ''Post- och Inrikes Tidningar'', and in 1886 also for the magazine ''Vårt Land''. In November 1884 he was appointed permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy. One of his tasks was to direct the work with "fixation of spelling" and the Academy's dictionary. The former work resulted in ''Svenska Akademiens ordlista'' (''The Swedish Academy's dictionary''), where the modern spelling was represented, in spite of af Wirséns's opposition. Together with Theodor Wisén and Esaias Tegnér, Jr., he tried to obstruct the publication. In December 1883, he was appointed member of the hymn book committee of the Church of Sweden, which got the task of "preparing, with discretion, a new proposal for hymnbook". The result was the edition of 1889. He was appointed member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1905. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carl David af Wirsén」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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