The New International Encyclopædia/Hedenstierna, Karl Joseph Alfred

HEDENSTIERNA, hā'den-styēr-nȧ, (1852&mdash;). A Swedish author, born at Wedåsa (Småland province). In 1879 he became connected with the staff of the Smålands Posten at Wexiö, and in 1890 was made editor-in-chief of that journal. In addition to several volumes descriptive of Swedish peasant life, he wrote a series of humorous articles, published weekly in the Posten over the name &lsquo;Segurd,&rsquo; and in part collected in a translation into German by Krusenstierna and Langfeldt, entitled Allerlei Leute (Leipzig, 1892-97).