Johan Magnus Almqvist
Swedish theologian
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- Doctorate Theology Uppsala University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Johan Magnus Almqvist was a Swedish theologian and parliamentarian. Biography Almqvist was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to civil servant and vicar and Gustava Brandelius. He began his studies at Uppsala University in 1819 and thereafter studied at Lund University, receiving his master's degree in philosophy in 1823. The following year he was ordained. In 1830, Almqvist became vicar of Skärstad Church near Jönköping and remained so until his death. From 1844 to 1866 he was a contractual provost and member of the Riksdag of the Estates. As a politician, he was a liberal and belonged to the opposition party within the clergy against its conservative majority. With regard to criminal law, inheritance law, schools, etc., he belonged to the reformists and voted for the representation bill in the 1865 Riksdag. He was a "staunch supporter" of Louis Gerhard De Geer, the country's first prime minister, at the 1865 Riksdag. Almqvist also worked for the cause of temperance and was on the 1859–1860 Riksdag committee on spirits.
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