Nils Johan Ekdahl (27 April 1799 in
Fågeltofta,
Sweden – 20 December 1870 in
Stockholm, Sweden) was a Swedish
theologian
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, political writer and cultural historian.
Student in
Lund in 1820, ordination as pastor in 1822, employed as a preacher in Stockholm in 1825. In his spare time, he devoted himself to historical and archaeological research, and traveled from 1827 to 1830 through the landscape of
Norrland
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in the north of Sweden, about which he reports in his treatise ''Om vattuminskningen i norra poltrakterna'' (1865).
In his last years of life Ekdahl was also a staunch supporter of the
Iceland
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ic theologian
Magnús Eiríksson (1806–1881), of whom he translated two books into
Swedish
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.
[See ''Johannis Evangelium. Är det en äkta apostolisk bok och är dess lära: att Gud är vorden menniska, en sann och kristlig lära? En Religiös-Dogmatisk Historisk-Kritisk Undersökning'', Stockholm 1864 and ''Läran om dopet'', Stockholm 1865 [the Swedish translation of Eiríksson's ''Hvem har Ret: Grundtvigianerne eller deres Modstandere?'' (1863).]
Main works
* ''Några data ur en 13:årig embetsverksamhet till förklarande af en 6 månaders ofrivillig overksamhet'', Stockholm 1851.
* ''Högmesso-predikan på klagodagen, den 14 augusti 1859, hållen i Adolf Fredriks kyrka'', Stockholm 1859.
* ''Den norska frågans historik'', Stockholm 1860.
* ''Predikan vid Jubelfesten den 4 november 1864'', Stockholm 1864.
* ''Om vattuminskningen i norra poltrakterna, dess orsaker och dess följder : embetsberättelse'', Stockholm 1865.
* ''Om osedligheten i Stockholm och dess botemedel'', Stockholm 1866.
Secondary literature on Ekdahl
* Harald Ossian Wieselgren, "Ekdahl, Nils Johan," in ''Nordisk Familjebok: Konversationslexikon och Realencyklopedi'', vol. 4, Stockholm 1881, cols. 294–295.
* P. A. Wallmark, "Ekdahl, Nils Johan," in ''Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon'', 2. ed. 1906, vol. 1, p. 283.
Notes
External links
Article in ''Nordisk Familjebok: Konversationslexikon och Realencyklopedi'' by Harald Ossian Wieselgren
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1799 births
1870 deaths
19th-century Swedish writers
Swedish male writers
19th-century Swedish historians
Swedish theologians
19th-century Protestant theologians
19th-century male writers
19th-century Lutherans