The excellent lyrical poet Frans Mikael Franzen (q.v.; 1772-1847) and a belated academician Johan David Valerius (1776-1852), fill up the space between the Gustavian period and the domination of romantic ideas from Germany.
Leighton was elected an Academician in 1868, and succeeded Sir Francis Grant as President in 1878, when he was knighted.
Attempting to return to France in 1780 he was arrested for a caustic attack on the duc de Duras (1715-1789), an academician and marshal of France, and imprisoned nearly two years in the Bastille.
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He was made an associate of the National Academy of Design, New York, in 1860, and a full academician in 1861.
A typical academician was the poet, antiquary and connoisseur, Nils Fredrik Sander (1828-1900).
He was elected a full academician in 1888, and an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Munich.
A biography of Huygens was prefixed to his Opera varia (1724); his Eloge in the character of a French academician was printed by J.
The French academician Bouger, who was chief of the scientific commission sent to Ecuador in 1736 to measure a degree of the meridian on the equator, made a trigonometrical measurement of Iliniza, and Wagner ascended to within 800 ft.