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1801 In Sweden
Events from the year 1801 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf Events * The Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy is occupied by Great Britain. * Carl Gustaf af Leopold publishes the '' Afhandling om svenska stafsättet'' * The Second League of Armed Neutrality, an alliance of Denmark–Norway, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia dissolves. * Foundation of the ''Djurgårdsteatern'' in Stockholm, the only theater except the Royal Dramatic Theater allowed to function in the capital during the 1798–1842 royal theater monopoly.Nordensvan, Georg. Svensk teater och svenska skådespelare från Gustav III till våra dagar; Första bandet, 1772-1842 (in Swedish) Births * 22 January – Lars Johan Hierta, newspaper publisher, social critic, businessman and politician (died 1872) * 1 February – Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer (died 1878) * 24 March – Immanuel Nobel, engineer, architect, inventor and industrialist (died 1872) * 9 May – Ulrika von Strussenfelt, writer (died 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrica Arfvidsson
Anna Ulrica Arfvidsson (1734–1801) was a professional Swedish fortune-teller during the reign of Gustav III of Sweden. She was commonly known as ''Mamsell Arfvidsson''. Biography Background Ulrica Arfvidsson was the daughter of a caretaker of the royal palace, Erik Lindberg, and Anna Katarina Burgin (d. 1771). After the death of her father, her mother remarried in 1740 to a chef of the royal household, Arfvid Arfvidsson (d. 1767), and Ulrica took the name of her stepfather. Ulrica Arfvidsson grew up comfortably in an environment where she heard many rumours and gossip of the higher circles in society. She became well-informed about things which many people outside of the court would like to know. Ulrica is described as an intelligent, with a sharp talent, well-developed intuition, and always very up-to-date about everything in society. Judging from the school-books from the inventory of her childhood-home, she seem to have been given a good education. She had no siblings. Not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Immanuel Nobel
Immanuel Nobel the Younger ( , ; 24 March 1801 – 3 September 1872) was a Swedish engineer, architect, inventor and industrialist. He was the inventor of the rotary lathe used in plywood manufacturing. He was a member of the Nobel family and the father of Robert Nobel, Ludvig Nobel, Alfred Nobel and Emil Oskar Nobel . In 1827 he married the children's mother, Andriette Ahlsell. He also often experimented with nitroglycerin with his sons, which led to his son Emil Oskar's death because of an explosion at his father's factory Heleneborg in Stockholm in 1864. Nobel moved to Russia from Sweden in 1838, to sell his inventions in Saint Petersburg, where he lived for two decades with his family. In Saint Petersburg he was attached to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Katarina along with other Swedes such as Johan Patrik Ljungström, with whom he may have collaborated. Among his successful creations was an improved version of an underwater exploding mine that personally inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1866 In Sweden
Events from the year 1866 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XV Events * The Riksdag of the Estates is dissolved and replaced by the Riksdag. * General Industrial Exposition of Stockholm (1866) * The Governmental Girls' School Committee of 1866 recommend a number of reforms in women's rights, such as access to a number of professions, to make universities available to women, to regulate girl's high schools so as to prepare women for university studies, introduce Gymnasium (school) for women, and give government support to the girl schools which met with the demands. These recommendations are met within the next few years. * The title of Fröken (Miss), until then reserved for noblewomen, are permitted for all unmarried women, and the title ''Mamsell'' comes out of use. * In Gothenburg, Emanuella Carlbeck open the first institution for people with Intellectual disability in Sweden. * Emmy Rappe are sent to Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at St Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brita Sofia Hesselius
Brita Sofia Hesselius (1801–1866) was a Swedish daguerreotype photographer. She was likely the first professional female photographer of her country. Hesselius was born in Alster parish in the Karlstad Municipality as the daughter of Olof Hesselius, inspector of an estate, and Anna Katarina Roman. From 1845 to 1853, she managed a girl school in Karlstad. In parallel, she was active with a daguerreotype photographic studio. She was as such the first professional female photographer of her country: by Frederick Renard before , the first female photographer who opened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrik Torsslow
Olof Ulrik Torsslow (18 December 1801 in Stockholm – 1 September 1881 in Stockholm), was a Swedish actor and theatre director. He was an elite actor of the Royal Dramatic Theatre. He is known for leading two big strikes at the royal stage referred to as 'First Torsslow Argument' (1827) and 'Second Torsslow Argument' (1834), and for crushing the monopoly of the royal theaters in Stockholm in 1842. He was the director of the ''Mindre teatern''. Life Ulrik Torsslow was born to bank official Mattias Torsslow. He was a student at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy in 1816–19 and made his debut as Hamlet on the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1819, where he stayed until the great strike of 1834. In 1830 he married the actress Sara Torsslow. The Torsslow Arguments In 1827 and 1834, two major strikes - indeed, the biggest strikes in the theatre's history - took place in the "Royal Theaters" (the Royal Swedish Opera and the Royal Dramatic Theatre), referred to as 'First Torsslo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Jakob Sundevall
Carl Jakob Sundevall (22 October 1801, Högestad – 2 February 1875) was a Swedish zoologist. Sundevall studied at Lund University, where he became a Ph.D. in 1823. After traveling to East Asia, he studied medicine, graduating as Doctor of Medicine in 1830. He was employed at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm from 1833, and was professor and keeper of the vertebrate section from 1839 to 1871. He wrote ''Svenska Foglarna'' (1856–87) which described 238 species of birds observed in Sweden. He classified a number of birds collected in southern Africa by Johan August Wahlberg. In 1835, he developed a phylogeny for the birds based on the muscles of the hip and leg that contributed to later work by Thomas Huxley. He then went on to examine the arrangement of the deep plantar tendons in the bird's foot. This latter information is still used by avian taxonomists. Sundevall was also an entomologist and arachnologist, for which (for the latter field) in 1833 he publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredrika Bremer
Fredrika Bremer (17 August 1801 – 31 December 1865) was a Finnish-born Swedish writer and feminist reformer. Her ''Sketches of Everyday Life'' were wildly popular in Britain and the United States during the 1840s and 1850s and she is regarded as the Swedish Jane Austen, bringing the realist novel to prominence in Swedish literature. In her late 30s, she successfully petitioned King Charles XIV for emancipation from her brother's wardship; in her 50s, her novel '' Hertha'' prompted a social movement that granted all unmarried Swedish women legal majority at the age of 25 and established Högre Lärarinneseminariet, Sweden's first female tertiary school. It also inspired Sophie Adlersparre to begin publishing the ''Home Review'', Sweden's first women's magazine as well as the later magazine '' Hertha''. In 1884, she became the namesake of the Fredrika Bremer Association, the first women's rights organization in Sweden. Early life Fredrika Bremer was born into a Swedis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1875 In Sweden
Events from the year 1875 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Oscar II of Sweden, Oscar II Events * - Inauguration of the Swedish Theatre (Stockholm). * - Alfred Nobel invents the Gelignite. * - First issue of the ''Falkenbergs Tidning'' * - ''Göteborgs BK'' is founded. * - Elsa Borg move to Stockholm and open the first bible home for education of Christian social workers in the slums. * - The Rower woman profession is formally abolished (though not forbidden) in Stockholm.Christine Bladh, Rodderskor på Stockholms vatten, Stockholmia förlag (2008), Births * 14 January - Felix Hamrin, prime minister (died 1937 in Sweden, 1937) * 21 June - Nelly Thüring, politician (died 1972 in Sweden, 1972) Deaths * 28 February - Sophia Isberg, wood cut artist (born 1819 in Sweden, 1819) * 5 July - Maria Röhl, portrait artist (born 1801 in Sweden, 1801) * 18 November - Martina von Schwerin, Lady of letters, salonist and culture personality (born 1789 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Röhl
Maria Christina Röhl (26 July 1801 – 5 July 1875) was a Swedish portrait artist. She made portraits of many of the best known people in Sweden in the first half of the 19th century. Her paintings are exhibited at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. The Swedish Royal library has a collection of 1800 portraits by her. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (1843) and an official portrait artist of the royal court. Biography Maria Röhl was born in Stockholm in a well-off family. She was the daughter of the consul Jacob Röhl and Maria Christina Kierrman and sister of educator Gustafva Röhl (1798–1848). After the death of their parents in 1822, she first worked as a governess. She was educated in drawing by the professor and copper engraver Christian Forssell (1777–1852); she had already received education in art by architect and artist Alexander Hambré (1790-1818) and was now taught to make quick and realistic portrait drawings in lead and chalk. She beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1865 In Sweden
Events from the year 1865 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XV Events * Inauguration of the Botaniska trädgården (Lund) * The first issue of the ''Jönköpings-Posten''."Årtal och händelser i Jönköping". Maltell (in Swedish). Retrieved 26 July 2014. * The '' Uppsala högre elementarläroverk för flickor'' is founded. * Foundation of the Valand Academy * The '' Rossander Courses'' for women starts in Stockholm. Births * 26 January - Axel Wallengren, author, poet and journalist (died 1896) * 19 February - Sven Hedin, geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer, and illustrator (died 1952) * 1 March - Elma Danielsson, Social Democrat, journalist and feminist (died 1936) * 28 August - Hanna Lindberg, milliner, politician, feminist (died 1951) * 11 December – Frida Stéenhoff, writer and women's rights activist (died 1945) * Anna von Zweigbergk, reporter (died 1952) Deaths * Helena Larsdotter Westerlund, educator (born 1799) * 31 De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Sophie Of Sweden
Princess Sophie of Sweden (Sofia Vilhelmina Katarina Maria Lovisa Charlotta Anna; 21 May 1801 – 6 July 1865) was, by marriage, Grand Duchess of Baden as the wife of sovereign Grand Duke of Baden, Leopold. Biography Early life Sophie was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on 21 May 1801. She was the daughter of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and his wife, Frederica of Baden. After her birth, she was raised under the supervision of the royal governesses Hedvig Ulrika De la Gardie and Charlotte Stierneld in succession. Sophie was eight years old when her father was deposed by the Coup of 1809 and she left Sweden with her family. Between the time of the coup which deposed her father, and leaving Sweden, she and her mother were under house arrest. During this period, she was described in the famous diary of Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp as a stubborn girl who was much more haughty and possessed less self-control than her brother Gustav. An anecdote describes the contra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1881 In Sweden
Events from the year 1881 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Arvid Posse Events * - Åre railway station opened * - Malexander Church Births *26 May – Sten Dehlgren, military officer and newspaper editor (d. 1947). * 8 July – Ruth Gustafson, social democrat, politician, social reformer (died 1960) * 9 July – Arvid Andersson, tug-of-war competitor (died 1956). * 29 August – Johan Hübner von Holst, sport shooter (died 1945). * 5 October – Florence Stephens, heiress and landowner (died 1979) * 18 November – Gösta Åsbrink, gymnast (died 1966). Deaths * 26 march - Lovisa Åhrberg, surgeon and doctor (born 1801) * - Sophia Magdalena Gardelius, damask weaver (born 1804) References Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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