Poet. Lasse Lucidor has received recognition as an early Swedish poet of the 17th century. Little is documented about his tragic life, but a few biographies do give clues. Born the son of a sea captain, Johan Eriksson, his mother was the stepdaughter of Lieutenant-Admiral Lar Strusshielm, who was knighted. When he was a child, both his parents died. He had two older sisters and two younger brothers. He enrolled in classes at University of Uppsala in 1856 for one year. At this point, his behavior has to be addressed as it is described as "nervous temperament and high-strung-nature." Nobel Prize poet, Erik Karlfeldt reports in his biography, Lucidor and the son of Count C.G. Wrangel, Carl Filip, began a tour of Europe, which was an education in itself. He studied at the University of Greifswald in the fall of 1655, in Germany at the University of Leipzig from 1659, and in France in 1661. Filip died in London in 1668 with Lucidor returning to Sweden traveling with a touring theater group. Living a humble Bohemian life-style, he lived in a summer-house the year round located on the edge of Stockholm. Not holding a position for steady income, he was able to sell his poetry at intervals, mainly wedding and funeral poems, and enjoyed celebrating in between time. He could speak seven languages, hence he gave part-time language lessons at the university and translated foreign author's writing into Swedish. During his lifetime, he did not actually publish his poems, and it was his friends who gathered, after his death, the many poems penned on waste paper, publishing them. The original publishers did poor editing, not correcting spelling or noting the chronological order of the poems. These errors have been corrected by later scholars. At times, he would abbreviate words in his own shorthand. With the support of Swedish King Karl XI, Lucidor's poems were published about fifteen years after his death under the significant title of, "Helicons Blomster" or "Flowers of Helicon". Once again addressing his behavior, Reinhold Ahleen's newspaper article published in December 1940, states, "Lucidor's genius pendled two extremes ranging from tearful remorse to hysterical gaiety." In his poetry, he feared religion, became tearful at the thought of romance, but enjoyed nature. Karlfeldt goes on to state, "its real impetus was a state of agitation and impatience, not due to hurry and indifference alone, but originating in a personal temperament." When he became angry with a nobleman, he penned a bitter wedding poem, thus was arrested for slander and sent to jail for six months. The poem was banned by King Charles X, hence made it more popular. In his reasoning, being born into nobility does not gain any more respect than someone who is not noble. He wrote Christian hymns, and his hymn "Lord God for tigh I complain," could be found in a 1986 hymnal. After an evening at the local tavern drinking with several friends, he had a verbal altercation with Lieutenant Arvid Christian Storm, who challenged him to a duel in the wee hours of the morning of August the 12th. Pulling their swords, the duel concluded with the trained army officer inflicting five fatal wounds in him. Charges against him were brought, and the officer was sent to jail serving two months, before escaping to Norway for a new life. He remained in the military and climbing the ranks to Major General by 1710, yet he carried the embarrassment of killing the Swedish poet the rest of his long life. Lucidor's large upright memorial stone stands in the cemetery, yet does not mark his actual grave site. In 1901 when the nearby road was widened, his unmarked grave on the north edge of the cemetery was excavated and more than likely, the soil with his remains was dumped into a nearby garden.