John Gabriel Anrep Jackson (December 4, 1821 - March 12, 1907) was a Swedish genealogist and author.

Biography

He was born on December 4, 1821 at Lekeberg Municipality

Lekeberg Municipality

Lekeberg Municipality is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Fjugesta, with around 2,000 inhabitants....

 on the family farm. He moved to Stockholm and was involved in genealogical publishing. He is best known for his history of Swedish nobility in 4 volumes. It was Sweden's first scholarly genealogical work. From 1871 to 1882 he published another set of genealogy books, and the 1900s edition was edited by Gustaf Elgenstierna

Gustaf Elgenstierna

Gustaf Magnus Elgenstierna was a Swedish historian and genealogist.-Biography:He was born on August 26, 1871 to Carl Elgenstierna and Evelina Petersohn. He married Clara Sandberg in 1908...

. In 1854 he started a new set in 27 volumes, containing information up to 1903. He died on March 12, 1907 in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

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Anrep's nobility genealogy

Gillingstam presents documentation that Anrep had personally discarded a lot of earlier parts of family trees of nobility, for example as mythical. However, in his series 1858-1864, Nobility Genealogy, 4 volumes, it was a prerequisite from the Riddarhuset to use their material that Anrep must follow those (even mythical parts of) family tables strictly - i.e, he was not allowed to discard mythical parts of the pompous pedigrees in his publication. This has been used as criticism against Anrep personally - that he published even mistaken genealogies. Also, his publication has been used as evidence of the truthfulness of those mythical parts of genealogies, on basis of Anrep's authority - although he might personally be appalled to see his name used for such purpose, having himself left personal notes about unreliable portions.