Nils Johan Ekdahl
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Swedish theologian, political writer and cultural historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nils Johan Ekdahl was a Swedish theologian, 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 in the north of Sweden, about which he reports in his treatise Om vattuminskningen i norra poltrakterna . In his last years of life Ekdahl was also a staunch supporter of the Icelandic theologian Magnús Eiríksson , of whom he translated two books into Swedish.
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