Church Church of Sweden Ordination 1845 Archdiocese Uppsala Name Anton Sundberg | Appointed 1870 Successor Johan August Ekman In office 1870-1900 Predecessor Henrik Reuterdahl | |
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Consecration 6 March 1864
by Henrik Reuterdahl Died February 2, 1900, Uppsala, Sweden Place of burial Uppsala old cemetery, Uppsala, Sweden Parents Sven Sundberg, Sara Katarina Lund Similar People Johan August Ekman, Erling Eidem, Yngve Brilioth, Karl Gustaf Westman, Helena Nyblom | ||
Anton Niklas Sundberg (27 May 1818, Uddevalla – 2 February 1900) was a Lutheran clergyman, and the Church of Sweden archbishop of Uppsala 1870–1900.
He acquired a philosophy doctor's degree in Uppsala, became dean and was ordained a clergyman, and then undertook travel through Europe in 1849-50. He was known as a controversial person; very outspoken, no stranger to using strong language and despising hypocrisy, but he displayed a remarkable sense of wit and authority. At a dinner party he once exclaimed "Next to godliness and chastity, small schnapps glasses are the worst I know!" which became a somewhat familiar quotation in Sweden.
Sundberg was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1874 and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1877.