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6. THE LUND MOVEMENT. 387
his place as a preacher. He is described as very impressive
in his boldness and assurance, and Bishop Nielsen says of
him: "Sweden never had a greater speaker." In his
youth he had a strongly-marked period of aestheticism, in
which he was an enthusiast for Aristophanes, Shakespeare
and Byron, and he remained a Liberal in politics and
theology.
16
He became Provost of Goteborg in 1850, and
Bishop of Lund in 1856.
Beside Thomander, the best known of the Lund pro
fessors of that date was Henrik Reuterdahl (1795 1870),
who worked there as a University teacher and professor for
thirty-five years. He edited the Theological Quarterly
(Theologisk Quartalskrift) for many years, in company
with Thomander, produced an Introduction to Theology,
which was long a text book for students, and, not only
edited many documents appertaining to Swedish Church
history, but produced the best existing history of the
Church up to the year 1533 the middle of the reign of
Gustaf Vasa. His writing appears to us of this genera
tion somewhat dull and wanting in ideas, but it is clear and
full and accurate, and based on independent study of
ancient documents, and, therefore, indispensable to the
student. His work may naturally be contrasted with that
of his younger contemporary, L. A. Anjou (1803 1884),
a Upsala professor for ten years, and Bishop of Visby from
1859 to his death. We can see in Anjou the influence of
Geijer, from which Reuterdahl is almost free. Anjou is
interesting, but rather diffuse, and occasionally obscure,
and it is difficult to know where to find the facts one needs.
In 1852 Reuterdahl was called by King Oskar I. to be
head of the ecclesiastical department of State, and three
years after became Bishop of Lund. He was, therefore, in
that city at the beginning of the period of which I am now
to speak, but he was called to the archbishopric in 1856,
and held it till his death in 1870. I shall mention later his
relations with Bishop Whitehouse, of Illinois.
16
See Nielsen in Der Protestantismns, p. 1003.
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