John Gabriel Anrep (December 4, 1821 – March 12, 1907) was a

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genealogist and author.

Biography

He was born on December 4, 1821 at

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on the family farm. He moved to

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and was involved in genealogical publishing. He is best known for his history of Swedish nobility in 4 volumes. It was Sweden's first scholarly genealogical work. From 1871 to 1882 he published another set of genealogy books, and the 1900s edition was edited by Gustaf Elgenstierna. In 1854 he started a new set in 27 volumes, containing information up to 1903. He died on March 12, 1907 in

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Anrep's nobility genealogy

Gillingstam presents documentation that Anrep had personally discarded a lot of earlier parts of family trees of the nobility, for example as being mythical. However, in his series 1858–1864, Nobility Genealogy, 4 volumes, it was a prerequisite from the House of Nobility that in order to use their material, Anrep must follow those (even mythical parts of) family tables strictly – i.e., he was not allowed to discard mythical parts of the pompous pedigrees in his publication. This has been used as criticism against Anrep personally – that he published even mistaken genealogies. Also, his publication has been used as evidence of the truthfulness of those mythical parts of genealogies, on basis of Anrep's authority – although he might personally be appalled to see his name used for such purpose, having himself left personal notes about unreliable portions.

Publication

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Anrep, Gabriel 1821 births 1907 deaths Swedish male writers Swedish genealogists Swedish non-fiction writers Male non-fiction writers