C. Georg (Carl Georg) Starbäck

Born in Falun on July 18, 1828, Carl Georg Starbäck became a Swedish historian, novelist, editor, and teacher. He studied at Uppsala University, earned a doctorate in philosophy in 1854, and later worked in education in Norrköping before devoting more of his time to writing and journalism.

Starbäck is best remembered for historical novels and for helping make Swedish history readable for a broad audience. Reference works describe him as a successful writer of historical fiction, and his best-known books include novels such as Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson and Nils Bosson Sture as well as the widely read Berättelser ur svenska historien, a popular history series he continued after P. O. Bäckström.

He also edited the paper Svenska arbetaren in the 1860s. Starbäck died in Uppsala on October 8, 1885, but his work remained part of the long tradition of Swedish popular historical writing.