Carl Axel Brolén, born 14 June 1845, died 26 June 1939, was a Swedish Latinist and

schoolmaster A schoolmaster, or simply master, is a male school teacher. The usage first occurred in England in the Late Middle Ages and early modern period. At that time, most schools were one-room or two-room schools and had only one or two such teacher ...

. He was the father of Nils Brolén. Brolén became a Doctor of Philosophy at the

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1872 with the thesis ''De elocutione A. Cornelii Celsi'', and the same year he became a

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. He was then the tutor of the Crown Prince Gustaf 1872–76. Brolén became a

lector Lector is Latin for one who reads, whether aloud or not. In modern languages it takes various forms, as either a development or a loan, such as , , and . It has various specialized uses. Academic The title ''lector'' may be applied to lecturers ...

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1880, rector at

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' higher general grammar school 1883 and at Uppsala higher general grammar school 1899–1911. From 1911 to 1925 he taught at the

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. Brolén published, amongst other things,

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''Valda skrifter'' (1883) and ''Om Alströmerska brefsamlingen i Upsala universitetsbibliotek'' (1917).

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* 1845 births 1939 deaths 19th-century philologists 20th-century Swedish philologists Uppsala University alumni Swedish Latinists {{Sweden-academic-bio-stub