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Gustaf Edvard Ingelius

A 19th-century Finnish librarian and cultural historian, he wrote with scholarly curiosity about medieval drama and early literary history. His surviving work opens a window onto how earlier generations studied theater, chronicles, and the cultural past.

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Om medeltidens skådespel

Om medeltidens skådespel

by Gustaf Edvard Ingelius

About the author

Born in Turku on March 18, 1818, Gustaf Edvard Ingelius was a Finnish librarian and cultural historian. He studied at the Cathedral School and upper secondary school in Turku, became a university student in 1836, and later earned advanced degrees before working in academic and library roles.

Ingelius is best remembered for research-based writing on literary and cultural history. His known works include Froissart såsom krönikeskrifvare (1854) and Om medeltidens skådespel (1861), a study of medieval drama and its later development that is still circulated in digital editions.

He spent part of his career connected with the university library world in Finland, and records from the period list him as a vice librarian. Ingelius died in Paris, France, on November 14, 1864.