| Comment: | 160 years ago the Swedish author, poet, composer, feminist, priest, teacher, journalist etc. Carl Jonas Love Almqvist died in Bremen.
Having been in long exile in America for his alleged attempted murder and forgery, and longing for his home country,
he somewhat ironically wrote these famous words: "Blott Sverige svenska krusbär har." (Solely Sweden Swedish gooseberries hath.)
But he never made it back to Sweden and was buried in Bremen. Around the year 1900 his remains were brought
from Bremen to Stockholm for burial, but they found out that they had got the wrong remains so they had to do it all over again.
He now lies in the Northern Cemetery in Stockholm. A solemn Equale but also some rambunctious music for a rambunctious man.
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