Josef Julius Wecksell [SEP] occupation
Josef Julius Wecksell
Josef Julius Wecksell (19 March 1838 - 9 August 1907) was a Finnish poet and playwright. 
Biography.
Wecksell was born at Turku, Finland. 
He was the son of Johan Wecksell and Sofia Ulrika Björkelund.
From 1858, he studied at the Imperial Alexander University.
He wrote a variety of poems, dramas and plays. In 1860 he published his first collection of poems. His historic drama "Daniel Hjort" was first performed in November 1862 at the Swedish Theatre (
Helsinki.
In 1862, Josef Julius Wecksell used the events in Åbo as a basis for his fictional play "Daniel Hjort". Hjort, among the defendants of the castle and a close friend of Fleming, defects to Charles for ideological reasons, opens the gates and takes part in the bloodbath. Hjort is then killed by Fleming's son, Olof. The play is the only one ever written by Wecksell, whose writing career was put to an end by a mental disease when he was twenty-five years old