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Rh GEIJER, (–), ’s greatest, was born at in,  12, , of a family that had  from  in the time of. At sixteen he left  for the  of, where in  he carried off the  ’s great  for an Äreminne öfver Riksförståndaren Sten Sture. He in, and in  returned from a ’s residence in  to become “” in his. Soon afterwards he accepted a post in the at, where, with eleven friends, he founded the “ Society,” to whose organ Iduna he contributed a number of  s and the s Manhem, Vikingen, Den siste kampen, Den siste skalden, Odalbonden, Kolargossen, and others, whose simplicity and earnestness, warm feeling, and strong patriotic  are dearer to  for the ﬁne  to which he set them. About the same time he issued a volume of s, of which several are inserted in the. Geijer’s  was soon after silenced by his call to be assistant to,  of  of  , whom he succeeded in that  in. In he was  to the. A single volume of a great projected work, Svea Rikes Häfder, itself a masterly critical examination of the sources of ’s ary, appeared in. Geijer’s researches in its preparation had severely strained his, and he went the on a tour through  and part of , his impressions from which are recorded in his Minnen. In – he three volumes of his Svenska folkets historia, a clear view of the  and  development of  down to the close of ’s reign. The acute critical insight, just thought, and ﬁnished of these two incomplete works of Geijer entitle him to the ﬁrst place among. His chief other and   are his Kort teckning af Sveriges tillstånd och af de fornämste handlande personer under tiden från Karl XII.’s död till Gustaf III.’s anträde af regjeringen, and Feodalism och republicanism, ett bidrag till Samhällsförfattningens historia , which led to a controversy with the   regarding the part played in  by the. Geijer also edited, with the aid of Schröder, a continuation of Fant’s Scriptores svecicarum medii ævi (–), and, by himself, Thorild’s Samlade skrifter (–), and Konung Gustaf III.’s efterlemnade Papper (3 vols. –). Geijer’s s, of which the last three,  in, under the title Om vår tids inre samhällsforhållanden, i synnerhet med afseende på Fäderneslandet, involved him in another controversy with , exercised a great influence over his , who especially testified to their attachment after the failure of the  for alleged   in his Thorild, tillika en philosophisk eller ophilosophisk bekännelse. A number of his extempore s, recovered from notes, were by Ribbing in. Failing forced Geijer to resign his  in, after which he removed to  for the purpose of completing his Svenska folkets historia, and died there 23d. His Samlade skrifter (13 vols. –; new ed. –) include a large number of and  s contributed to reviews, particularly to Literaturbladet (–), a  edited by himself, which attracted great attention in its day by its pronounced  views on public questions, a striking contrast to those he had defended in –, when, as again in –, he    in the. Geijer’s style is strong and manly. His bursts out in sudden ﬂashes that light up the dark corners of. A few strokes, and a personality stands before us instinct with life. His is at once the ’s and the ’s; with his profoundest thought there beats in unison the warmest, the noblest, the most patriotic. Geijer came to the of  fresh from researches in the whole ﬁeld of n, researches whose  are garnered in numerous articles in Iduna, and his masterly  Om den gamla nordiska folkvisan, preﬁxed to the collection of Svenska folkvisor which he edited with A.A. Afzelius (3 vols. –). The development of is the idea that gives unity to all his historical writings. This idea is not subjective; he traces it in the darkest of. , he repeats, is the only an that has not been trod by foreign, that has never accepted the  of. There, on the whole, the has ever been the people’s faithfullest, and all his great designs for ’s external and internal gain have been carried out “by the help of  and .” Throughout life Geijer was what he professed to be, a seeker; and to no  did he yield absolute allegiance. Yet his writings mark a new era in, the rise of a “critical school” whose aim is to draw the truth without distortion, and present reality without a foil.

1em  GEIKIE, (–), a subject-, was born at,  9,. In he was attacked by a   by which he  the faculty of, but through the careful attention of his father he was enabled to obtain a good. His stic talent was ﬁrst manifested, while he was still very young, by attempts to cut out representations of objects in, and to ﬁgures with  on s and. Before he had the advantage of the instruction of a master, he had attained considerable proficiency in both ﬁgures and s from, and in  he was admitted into the   of the board of , where he made very rapid progress in the use of the. He ﬁrst exhibited in, and was an associate of the Royal   in , and a fellow in. He died on the 1st, and was  in the  ,. Owing to his want of feeling for Geikie was not a successful  in, but he  in  with great truth and humour the scenes and characters of  lower-class life in. The characteristics he depicts are somewhat obvious and superﬁcial, but his humour is never coarse, and he is surpassed by few in the power of representing the broadly ludicrous and the plain and homely aspects of humble life. A series of which exhibit very high excellence were  by him in –, and a collection of eighty-one of these was re posthumously in, with a biographical introduction by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart.  GEILER, or GEYLER, (–), one of the greatest of the popular s of the, was born at ,  16, , but from  passed his childhood and youth at  in , from which place his current designation is derived. In he entered the  of  in, where, after , he d for some time on the Sentences of Petrus Lombardus, the Commentaries of Alexander Halensis, and several of the works of Aristotle. A living interest in, which had been awakened within him by the study of Gerson, led in to his removal to the  of , at that