Ebbe Gustaf Bring

Biography Bring was born in Askersund, Örebro County in 1814, to city physician and assessor Sven Håkan Bring and Ulrika (Ulla) Sofia Silfverswärd. He married Maria Ulrika (Ulla) Ehrenborg, sister of writer Betty Ehrenborg, in 1841. Bring was the father of lawyer as well as grandfather of artist Maj Bring; he was also cousin of .

Bring enrolled at Uppsala University in 1829 and at Lund University in 1832, where he obtained a master's degree in philosophy in 1835. Bring was appointed docent in dogmatic theology and moral theology in 1837 and ordained the same year. In 1844 he was appointed adjunct theology professor and in the same year provost of his own parishes. From 1839 to 1847 he held various professorships in the Faculty of Theology almost continuously, and in 1848 he was appointed professor of pastoral theology and in 1856 also dean of Lund Cathedral. In 1861 he was appointed bishop of Linköping; in 1860 he received his doctorate in theology, and in 1870 he was elevated to the second rank on the proposal of archbishop. As bishop, he held clerical meetings in 1862, 1868, 1874 and 1882. These journals feature several of his contributions. Among his other writings may be mentioned (1851), (1862) and (1865). (See also Gottfrid Billing's "" (1886) )

Bring died in Linköping in 1884 and is buried at Norra griftegården.