Tegner

Tegner, ESAIAS (1782-1846), Swedish poet of peasant extraction, was the son of a pastor at Kyrkerud, in Wennland. He was educated at the university of Lund, where he became professor of Greek in 1812. In 1824 he was appointed Bishop of Wexio. His principal poems are Frithjof's Saga (1820-25); Axiel, a romance (1821); and the idyll of Nattvardsbarnen (Longfellow's Children of the Lord's Supper) (1820).