Swedish literature, Swedish literature - Eighteenth Century, Swedish literature - Modern Period, Swedish literature - Old Swedish, Swedish literature - Realism, Swedish literature - Runic, Swedish literature - Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Category:Swedish language writers
As Swedish evolved from Old Norse in the 13th century, we can begin say that Swedish Literature began to develop as an independent body of literature. What is referred to as Old Swedish was used between 1225 and 1526. It is regarded as initiated by the first provincial laws which were written in the Latin alphabet, albeit some old futharks remained, as the Latin alphabet did not have letters for them. For instance รพ (pronounced as "th" ...
In the eighteenth century, the Swedish language and literature solidified and matured and the period of 1750 to around 1880 is called Late New Swedish. It was initiated with Olov von Dahlin publishing the weekly The Swedish Argus, a weekly periodical which introduced Enlightenment concepts to Sweden.
In the 18th century, Latin accelerated its decline in favor of the national language. One of the first popular writers to write in the Swedish language was actually the world renowned botanist Carl Linneaus (1700-1772). Other key writers inclu ...
