I'm reading Pagan Resurrection by Richard Rudgley (melodramatically subtitled A Force for Evil or the Future of Western Spirituality?). The most I've seen on Bureus since Churton. I'm please to state that, in part thanks to this book, the Swedish Rosicrucian's place on the 78 no longer looks so insecure. He may well at least stand in for neo-Pagan revival, the honored and coveted final place.
Here's a recent effort to organize the candidates, in this case by their broad types of achievements:
Archaeological curiosity: Tolland Man
Activism: Queen Margreta*, Bremer*, Nansen***, Alfred Nobel*, Raoul Wallenberg, Gunnar Sonsteby*, Gro Harlem Brundtland*,
Architecture: Arne Jacobsen
Art: Carl Larsson, Munch, Ingri d'Aulaire, Strindberg*,
Cinema: Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullman
Entrepreneurship: Ingvar Kamprad
Exploration: Erik the Red, Leif, Gudrid, Nansen***, Roald Amundsen, Thor Heyerdal*,
Literature: Egill Skalgraimsson*, Snorri***, Swedenborg***, Holberg, Bremer*, Hans Christian Anderson, Ibsen, Strindberg*, Hans Orsted*, Selma Lagerlof, Knut Hamsun, Halldor Laxness, Sigrid Undset*, Par Lagerkvist, Astrid Lingren, Asbjornsen and Moe, Karen Blixen
Music: Buxtehude, Jenny Lind, Ole Bull, Grieg, Bjork,
Philosophy/Scholarship: Snorri***, Johannes Bureus, Swedenborg***, Soren Kierkegaard, Gunnar Myrdal*, Sveinbjorn Beinstensson, Nick Bostrom, Nicholas Steno*
Saintliness: Birgitta
Science/invention: Tycho Brahe, Swedenborg***, Celsius Anders, Linnaeus, Hans Orsted, J.J. Berzelius, Alfred Nobel*, G.H. Hansen, Svante Arrhenius, Gideon Sundbeck, Nansen, Bohr, Linus Torvalds, Thor Heyerdahl*, Nicolas Steno*, Ole Romer
Sport: Bjorn Borg, Bjorn Daehlie, Magnus Carlsen
Statesmanship: Snorri***, Engelbrektsson*, Axel Oxenstierna, Gunnar Myrdal*, Dag Hammarskjold, Vigdis Finnbogadottir, Gro Harlem Brundtland*,
Monarchy: Gunnhild Gormsdottir, Harald Bluetooth, Sigrid the Haughty, Olaf Tryggvasson*, Sweyn Forkbeard*, Canute the Great*, Harald Hardrada*, Margreta***, Gustav Vassa*, Christian IV*, Gustavus Adolphus*, Christina Alexandra, Charles XII*
War: Egill Skalagrimsson*, Rollo, Turgeis, Rurik, Olaf Tryggvasson*, Sweyn Forkbeard*, Harald Hardra*, Margreta***, Engelbrektsson*, Nils Dacke, Gustav Vasa*, Christian IV*, Axel Oxenstierna*, Gustavus Adolphus*, Vidkun Quisling, Gunnar Sonsteby*,
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