Carl Axel Brolén

Carl Axel Brolén, born 14 June 1845, died 26 June 1939, was a Swedish Latinist and schoolmaster. He was the father of Nils Brolén.

Carl Axel Brolén

Brolén became a Doctor of Philosophy at the Uppsala University 1872 with the thesis De elocutione A. Cornelii Celsi, and the same year he became a docent. He was then the tutor of the Crown Prince Gustaf 1872–76. Brolén became a lector in Gävle 1880, rector at Västerås' higher general grammar school 1883 and at Uppsala higher general grammar school 1899–1911. From 1911 to 1925 he taught at the Fjellstedt School.[1] Brolén published, amongst other things, Senecas Valda skrifter (1883) and Om Alströmerska brefsamlingen i Upsala universitetsbibliotek (1917).