Christopher Jacob Boström (January 1, 1797,
PiteåPiteå is a locality and the seat of Piteå Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden with 22,650 inhabitants in 2005.- Geography :Piteå is located at the mouth of the Pite River , at the shore of the Bay of Bothnia...
,
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– March 22, 1866,
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) was a
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philosopher, regarded by some as Sweden's greatest. His ideas dominated Swedish
philosophyPhilosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing these questions by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on reasoned...
until the beginning of the twentieth century. He also had a great influence on Swedish cultural life.
As a student he briefly studied theology, and religion remained his primary interest throughout his life.
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Christopher Jacob Boström (January 1, 1797,
PiteåPiteå is a locality and the seat of Piteå Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden with 22,650 inhabitants in 2005.- Geography :Piteå is located at the mouth of the Pite River , at the shore of the Bay of Bothnia...
,
NorrbottenNorrbotten is a Swedish province in northernmost Sweden. It borders south to Västerbotten, west to Swedish Lapland, and east to Finland.- Administration :...
– March 22, 1866,
UppsalaUppsala is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth largest city of Sweden with 144,839 inhabitants....
) was a
SwedishSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...
philosopher, regarded by some as Sweden's greatest. His ideas dominated Swedish
philosophyPhilosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing these questions by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on reasoned...
until the beginning of the twentieth century. He also had a great influence on Swedish cultural life.
As a student he briefly studied theology, and religion remained his primary interest throughout his life. His major work was
Philosophy of Religion.
He was
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of philosophy at
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from 1842 to 1863, except for four years when he tutored the royal family in Stockholm. He was charged with the education of the crown prince, later
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.
He was the paternal uncle of
Erik Gustaf BoströmErik Gustaf Bernhard Boström was a Swedish landowner and politician, who was a member of the Swedish Parliament and Prime Minister of Sweden twice . He was also known as E.G. Boström or E. Gust...
.