Axel Brusewitz (9 June 1881 – 27 September 1950) was a

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, well known for his belief in

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and his opposition towards the traditional anti-democratic

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of Swedish

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and bureaucracy. He was a specialist in

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. He wrote influential works about, among other things, the Swedish constitution of 1809. Brusewitz was on the side of liberal premier Karl Staaff in the political fight about

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1914. As professor in

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, he was a mentor of other political scientists that had important roles in Swedish public life, among them the socialist, later liberal, professor and newspaper editor Herbert Tingsten and the professor and later conservative party leader

Gunnar Heckscher Gunnar Edvard Heckscher (8 July 190924 November 1987) was a Swedish political scientist and leader of the Rightist Party (), which later became the Moderate Party. Biography Heckscher was born in Djursholm, son of economist Eli Heckscher and wr ...

. From 1943 to 1947 Brusewitz was a member of the committee that wrote the proposal of a revised constitutional law for the Freedom of the Press.

References

*A. Brusewitz: Studier öfver 1809 års författningskris *A. Brusewitz: Kungamakt, herremakt, folkmakt {{DEFAULTSORT:Brusewitz, Axel Swedish politicians Swedish political scientists Academic staff of Uppsala University 1881 births 1950 deaths Burials at Uppsala old cemetery 20th-century political scientists