Carl Boberg

The recorded working language is Swedish. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are psalm. Places of work recorded in the authority are Stockholm and Mönsterås församling. Positions recorded include member of the First Chamber. Distinctions recorded are Litteris et Artibus.

• Name — Carl Gustav Boberg • Born — 16 August 1859 • Birthplace — Mönsterås parish, Kalmar County, Sweden • Died — 7 January 1940 • Place of death — Kalmar Cathedral parish, Kalmar County, Sweden • Occupation — Poet, preacher, writer, member of the Riksdag

Born in Mönsterås, Kalmar County, in Småland, Boberg was the son of carpenter Nils Petter Jonsson Boberg and Hedvig Gustava Jonsdotter. The religious revival movements of the time strongly affected him as a young man. He worked briefly as a sailor and served as a lay minister in the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden. Boberg studied at the church's school in Kristinehamn from 1879 to 1882 and was then a preacher for the Mönsterås Mission Association from 1882 to 1889. However, he earned his living mainly as a sloyd teacher. Boberg was also the editor of the free-church magazine Sanningsvittnet ('Witness of the Truth') from 1889 to 1916. He published his own books and poetry through the magazine's publishing house, and bought the magazine in 1894. He was a preacher at Flora Church from 1890 to 1892 and Immanuel Church from 1892 to 1909, both in Stockholm. Boberg was a member of the board of the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden from 1897 to 1902, but resigned so as not to have to take a stand between its two leaders, Paul Peter Waldenström and Jakob (E. J.) Ekman. The latter was Boberg's former teacher at the mission school.

Boberg served in the Riksdag's Första kammare (upper house of Parliament) from 1912 to 1931. From 1921, he was also a state auditor. Unlike many of the free church leaders who were free-thinkers and liberals, Boberg moved in an increasingly conservative direction and ran for the General Electoral Association (Allmänna valmansförbundet, today's Moderate Party). In the parliamentary presentation material published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage, it is stated that Boberg argued against women's suffrage. He is reported to have said that 'women, if elected as members of parliament, would obscure the view in the meeting rooms with their wide-brimmed hats.' Moreover, he argued, the sharp hatpins were a weapon, so women with hatpins were unthinkable as parliamentarians."

On 5 January 1884 Boberg married Anna Maria Elisabet Pettersson. On 23 November 1915 he married Selma Charlotta Elisabet Ydrén.

The authorities additionally record the headings Carl Gustav Boberg and Carl Gustaf Boberg. His recorded language was Swedish. He was the child of Nils Petter Jonsson Boberg and Hedvig Gustafva Persdotter. He married Anna Maria Elisabeth Persson and Selma Charlotta Elisabet Ydrén.

Carl Boberg is recorded as poet, writer, newspaper editor, politician and publisher.