Erik Tullius Hammargren (18 October 1814 – 14 February 1899) was a Swedish

Lutheran Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that emerged under the work of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched ...

priest,

ornithologist Ornithology, from Ancient Greek ὄρνις (''órnis''), meaning "bird", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is a branch of zoology dedicated to the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related discip ...

, and

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writer.

Life and work

Erik Tullius Hammargren was born in

Karlstad Karlstad (, ) is the 20th-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city proper had 67,122 inhabitants in 2020 with 97,233 inhabitan ...

in 1814 to vicar Anders Hammargren and Sara Johanna Piscator. Hammagren became a student in

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in 1832 and obtained a

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in philosophy in 1838. He enrolled in the medical faculty at

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in 1840. Hammargren worked as a teacher at a school in

Åmål Åmål () is a urban areas of Sweden, locality and the seat of Åmål Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 9,065 inhabitants in 2010. It is situated on the western shore of Vänern. In 2005 Åmål received second prize in the in ...

, Dalsland from 1837 to 1852. He served as the

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of the

Karlskoga Karlskoga () is a urban areas of Sweden, locality and the seat of Karlskoga Municipality, Sweden. It is located within Örebro County, 45 km (28 mi) west of Örebro, and 10 km (6 mi) north of Degerfors. With a 2020 population o ...

parish from 1867 to 1899. In 1875, the celebrated Swedish author and Nobel Prize laureate,

Selma Lagerlöf Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (, , ; 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish writer. She published her first novel, ''Gösta Berling's Saga'', at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was ...

, resided with him, alongside his spouse, Ottiliana Lagerlöf, who happened to be her aunt at the Karlskoga Church Rectory. During that period, Selma Lagerlöf was one of his

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students. Hammargren passed away in 1899 at the age of 85.

Works

* (1854) * (1858)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hammargren, Tullius 1814 births 1899 deaths 19th-century Swedish Lutheran priests 19th-century Swedish writers 19th-century Swedish educators Textbook writers Swedish ornithologists Swedish-language writers People from Karlstad