1865-1896 SE
A.k.a. Sven Axel Olaus Wallengren Falstaff, Fakir
Sven Axel Olaus Wallengren (originally Svensson) (January 26, 1865, Lund - December 4, 1896, Berlin) was a Swedish author, poet, and journalist, who wrote under the nom de plume Falstaff, fakir.Wallengren was born in Lund where he would spend most of his short life. His father Mårten Svensson (1831-1898) was the poor son of a peasant who had managed to work his way up to a respectable position as a local civil servant, and his mother Olivia Wallengren (1842-1879) was the daughter of a clergyman. Although the latter died of tubercolosis when young Axel was only fourteen and his many siblings even younger, he seems to have had a fairly harmonious middle-class childhood. After having attended the local gymnasium Katedralskolan, Wallengren enrolled as a student at Lund University in 1883. At f