[Frans Teodor]. Swedith dramatic author, born in Stockholm on the 2nd of March 1828; was apprenticed to a wig-maker; in 1849 went on the stage; left the stage in 1854, and began writing plays; in 1862 was made professor of declamation at the Royal Theater of Stockholm; in 1871 intendant in the same theater; in 1881 director of the new theater at Göthenburg. Among his plays are My Friend the Lieutenant (1853); When You Have no Money (1854); Glanskis; The Vikings. He also published two volumes of Poems (1866), and in 1884 biographical works on the Swedish theater and opera.
