Robert Nisbet Bain, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 1… (1911)
“ ALIN, OSCAR JOSEF (1846–1900) , Swedish historian and politician, was born at Falun on the 22nd of December 1846. In 1872 he became docent, and in 1882 professor of political economy at Upsala, of which university he was afterwards rector. In September 1888 he was elected a member of the first chamber of the Riksdag, where he attached himself to the conservative protectionist party, over which, from the first, he exercised great authority. But it is as a historian that Alin is most remarkable. ”
