Carl Gustaf af Leopold [SEP] place of death
Carl Gustaf af Leopold
Carl Gustaf af Leopold (26 February 1756, Stockholm – 9 November 1829, Stockholm) was a Swedish poet.
Biography.
He attained distinction in Swedish letters, his first work to attract wide attention being his "Ode on the Birth of the Prince-Royal Gustavus Adolphus" (1778). He was appointed private secretary to Gustavus III in 1788 and stood high in the regard of that monarch. His odes on the martial achievements of the Swedes were among his most popular productions,
Swedish orthography. The previous disorder had been partly fixed. Linguistic principles, like the principle of phonetically correct spelling for example, yielded to a new pragmatic idea that for the sake of the printing profession, rules of spelling had to be created. This resulted in Carl Gustaf af Leopold's 1801 treatise on spelling.
History 19th century.
In 1786, the Swedish Academy was founded and that same year the author Carl Gustaf af Leopold was inducted into the academy. Leopold was commissioned to create more modern rules for Swedish orthography