was nearly eighty years of age. In 1881 and 1885 he issued his collected works, mainly in verse. He was yet again appointed Minister of Education, for a second and final time in 1888, and served in office to 1891. After his resignation as a cabinet minister, he was then elected to the upper house of the Riksdag in 1893. Wennerberg preserved his superb appearance in advanced old age, and he died, after a very short illness, on 24 August 1901, at Läckö Castle, where he was visiting his brother-in-law, Count Axel Rudenschöld. His wife, the Countess Hedvig Cronstedt, whom he married in 1852, died in 1900. Wennerberg was a most remarkable type of the lyrical, ardent Swedish aristocrat, full of the joy of life and the beauty of it. In the long roll of his eighty-four years there was scarcely a crumpled rose-leaf. His poems, to which their musical accompaniment is almost essential, have not ceased, in half a century, to be universally pleasing to Swedish ears; outside Sweden it would be difficult to make their peculiarly local charm intelligible. Relatives Wennerberg's niece Sara Wennerberg-Reuter (1875–1959) was also a well-known musician; she was an organist and composer. His younger brother, Gunnar Brynolf Wennerberg was an artist. References External links Gunnar Wennerberg at HymnTime. Gunnar Wennerberg on Victor Records. Swedish Wikisource Gunnar Wennerborg 01 Gunnar Wennerborg 02 Gunnar Wennerberg statue by Carl Johan Eldh Wennerberg 01 at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis. Wennerberg 02 at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis. Wennerberg 03 at Djurgården Park in Stockholm, Sweden. Historic photos Gunnar Wennerberg at Wikimedia Commons. Gunnar Wennerberg at the Hennepin County Library. Gunnar Wennerberg at the Minnesota Historical Society. Poem O God, Who guid'st the fate of nations: lyrics by Gunnar Wennerberg. Video words and music by Gunnar Wennerberg. Streaming audio Gunnar Wennerberg on Edison Records. 1817 births 1901 deaths 19th-century classical composers 19th-century Swedish people Governors of Kronoberg County Members of the Swedish Academy Members of the Första kammaren People from Lidköping Municipality Romantic composers Swedish classical composers Swedish male classical composers Swedish-language writers Swedish Ministers for Education Swedish poets Swedish male writers Uppsala University alumni Swedish male poets 19th-century Swedish poets Musicians from Uppsala 19th-century male writers 19th-century Swedish musicians 20th-century Swedish male musicians 20th-century Swedish musicians 19th-century male musicians