Background
He was the son of Magnus Martin af Pontin.
He was the son of Magnus Martin af Pontin.
Pontin graduated from the Uppsala University in 1837 and shortly afterwards published his translation of Alexis de Tocqueville"s Democracy in America. After getting his law degree, he published Förr och nu i Vadstena (1846) and Äreminne öfver East. Dahlberg (1847). These were followed by the novel Lydia (1847), the novella Hög och låg (1850), and the play Agda (1850).