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Carl Gustaf af Leopold (1756–1829)
Leopold, Karl Gustaf af (lā’ō-pōld). A Swedish poet; born at Stockholm, Nov. 23, 1756; died there, Nov. 9, 1829. He was for a long time a kind of literary dictator, and was the chief representative in Sweden of the French school of classicism. He attempted all forms of poetry save the epic. Of his tragedies the best known are ‘Odin’ (1790), for which Gustavus III. presented him a crown of laurel from Virgil’s tomb; and ‘Virginia’ (1802).