Jean Fredman (born Johan Fredrik Fredman; 1712 or 1713 – 9 May 1767) was a famous figure in 18th century Stockholm. He was the son of the watchmaker Andreas...
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Fredmans epistlar (English: Fredman's Epistles) is a collection of 82 poems set to music by Carl Michael Bellman, a major figure in Swedish 18th century...
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that era, based on the lives of actual people Bellman was aware of. Jean Fredman, an alcoholic former watchmaker, is the central character and fictional...
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Ack du min moder (category Fredmans epistlar)
has two parts, despairing and celebratory: it begins as a lament, with Jean Fredman lying drunk in a Stockholm gutter outside the Crawl-in tavern, and repeatedly...
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for two collections of poems set to music, Fredman's epistles (Fredmans epistlar) and Fredman's songs (Fredmans sånger). Each consists of about 70 songs...
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Fram med basfiolen, knäpp och skruva (category Fredmans epistlar)
by Ulla Winblad's bed, late one evening"). It describes an attempt by Jean Fredman to make love to Ulla Winblad, set to a tune from a French operetta, narrated...
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Gubben Noak (category Fredmans sånger)
songs at the royal court. Jean Fredman (1712 or 1713–1767) was a real watchmaker of Bellman's Stockholm. The fictional Fredman, alive after 1767, but without...
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Milton Friedman (redirect from Milton Fredman)
Friedman is wrong about Open Borders". Reason Magazine. Reason Foundation. Fredman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. pp. 179–181. Peterson, Jonathan (December...
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Fjäriln vingad syns på Haga (category Fredmans sånger)
songs at the royal court. Jean Fredman (1712 or 1713–1767) was a real watchmaker of Bellman's Stockholm. The fictional Fredman, alive after 1767, but without...
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Charon i Luren tutar (category Fredmans epistlar)
song describes Jean Fredman's departure from the world. The ferryman of the underworld in classical mythology, Charon, invites Fredman to come with him...
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Käraste Bröder Systrar och Vänner (category Fredmans epistlar)
songs at the royal court. Jean Fredman (1712 or 1713–1767) was a real watchmaker of Bellman's Stockholm. The fictional Fredman, alive after 1767, but without...
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Bröderna fara väl vilse ibland (category Fredmans epistlar)
songs at the royal court. Jean Fredman (1712 or 1713–1767) was a real watchmaker of Bellman's Stockholm. The fictional Fredman, alive after 1767, but without...
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Märk hur vår skugga (category Fredmans epistlar)
songs at the royal court. Jean Fredman (1712 or 1713–1767) was a real watchmaker of Bellman's Stockholm. The fictional Fredman, alive after 1767, but without...
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goddess and a tavern prostitute, and a key figure in Bellman's songs of Fredman's Epistles. The juxtaposition of elegant and low life is humorous, while...
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seeing to it that the finest clocks of court and city kept time was Jean Fredman—he with the penchant for wigs, lavender water and other Frenchified refinements...
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Solen glimmar blank och trind (category Fredmans epistlar)
songs at the royal court. Jean Fredman (1712 or 1713–1767) was a real watchmaker of Bellman's Stockholm. The fictional Fredman, alive after 1767, but without...
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Glimmande nymf (category Fredmans epistlar)
songs at the royal court. Jean Fredman (1712 or 1713–1767) was a real watchmaker of Bellman's Stockholm. The fictional Fredman, alive after 1767, but without...
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Käre bröder, så låtom oss supa i frid (category Fredmans epistlar)
in Gaffelgränden"). The first epistle to be written, it introduces Jean Fredman's fictional world of ragged drunken men in Stockholm's taverns, making...
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Nå skruva Fiolen (category Fredmans epistlar)
songs at the royal court. Jean Fredman (1712 or 1713–1767) was a real watchmaker of Bellman's Stockholm. The fictional Fredman, alive after 1767, but without...
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Gyllenborg, Prime Minister of Sweden (died 1829) 9 May - Jean Fredman, role model of the Songs of Fredman (born 1712) Lisbetta Isacsdotter, religious leader...
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Liksom en Herdinna, högtids klädd (category Fredmans epistlar)
songs at the royal court. Jean Fredman (1712 or 1713–1767) was a real watchmaker of Bellman's Stockholm. The fictional Fredman, alive after 1767, but without...
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Opp Amaryllis! (category Fredmans sånger)
songs at the royal court. Jean Fredman (1712 or 1713–1767) was a real watchmaker of Bellman's Stockholm. The fictional Fredman, alive after 1767, but without...
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Värm mer Öl och Bröd (category Fredmans epistlar)
songs at the royal court. Jean Fredman (1712 or 1713–1767) was a real watchmaker of Bellman's Stockholm. The fictional Fredman, alive after 1767, but without...
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Så lunka vi så småningom (category Fredmans sånger)
songs at the royal court. Jean Fredman (1712 or 1713–1767) was a real watchmaker of Bellman's Stockholm. The fictional Fredman, alive after 1767, but without...
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and events in Stockholm. Jean Fredman, an alcoholic former watchmaker, is the central character and fictional narrator. Fredman's Songs is a mixed collection...
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Movitz blåste en konsert (category Fredmans epistlar)
songs at the royal court. Jean Fredman (1712 or 1713–1767) was a real watchmaker of Bellman's Stockholm. The fictional Fredman, alive after 1767, but without...
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Hvila vid denna källa (category Fredmans epistlar)
songs at the royal court. Jean Fredman (1712 or 1713–1767) was a real watchmaker of Bellman's Stockholm. The fictional Fredman, alive after 1767, but without...
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Vår Ulla låg i sängen och sov (category Fredmans epistlar)
songs at the royal court. Jean Fredman (1712 or 1713–1767) was a real watchmaker of Bellman's Stockholm. The fictional Fredman, alive after 1767, but without...
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Fader Bergström (category Fredmans epistlar)
songs at the royal court. Jean Fredman (1712 or 1713–1767) was a real watchmaker of Bellman's Stockholm. The fictional Fredman, alive after 1767, but without...
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Träd fram du nattens gud (category Fredmans sånger)
songs at the royal court. Jean Fredman (1712 or 1713–1767) was a real watchmaker of Bellman's Stockholm. The fictional Fredman, alive after 1767, but without...
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