Anders Chydenius was a Swedish-Finnish Lutheran priest, member of the Swedish Riksdag, and one of the most important champions of democratic development in 18th-century Sweden, known as the leading classical liberal of Nordic history. He championed free trade, freedom of the press, and the rights of servants, labourers and the rural poor.
- Occupation
- economist, politician, philosopher, priest
- Position held
- member of the Riksdag of the Estates
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Born
- February 26, 1729
- Died
