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1814 In Sweden
Events from the year 1814 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIII Events * - Swedish–Norwegian War (1814) * - Battle of Kjølberg Bridge * - Convention of Moss * - H. M. The King's Medal * - Treaty of Kiel * - Poem '' Gefion, skaldedikt i fyra sånger'' by Eleonora Charlotta d'Albedyhll Births * 16 January – Henning Hamilton, politician (died 1886) * 13 August - Anders Jonas Ångström, physicist (died 1874) * 22 May – Amalia Lindegren, painter (died 1891) * 3 September – Mathilda Gelhaar, opera singer (died 1889) * 1 October – Josefina Deland, women's right activist (died 1891) * Unknown date – Pilt Carin Ersdotter, famous beauty (died 1885) * Antoinette Nording, perfume entrepreneur (died 1887) * Vilhelm Pettersson, ballet dancer (died 1854) *Lovisa Mathilda Nettelbladt, writer (died 1867) Deaths * 26 February – Johan Tobias Sergel, sculptor (born 1740) * - Georg Johan De Besche, royal favorite (born 1754) * - Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, royal favorite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridgetunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of , with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden has a nature dominated by forests and a large amount of lakes, including some of the largest in Europe. Many long rivers run from the Scandes range through the landscape, primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josefina Deland
Josefina (Josephine) Deland (Stockholm, 1 October 1814 – Paris, 8 March 1890), was a Swedish feminist, writer and a teacher in French. She founded ''Svenska lärarinnors pensionsförening'' (Society for Retired Female Teachers), where she served as chairperson from its foundation in 1855 to 1859. Life Deland was the daughter of the ballet dancer Louis Deland and the actress Maria Deland. Her father was partially French speaking, she herself visited France during her upbringing, and she was as a French teacher in Stockholm in the 1840s and -50s. She published a book about the French language in 1839. Deland was a feminist, and became a pioneer as a woman's rights activist in Sweden at a point when no women's movement was organized in Sweden, a part from the isolated example of Sophie Sager. In 1852, she raised a public debate about the fact that the state did not provide any pension for retired female teachers and governesses, who consequently often ended up at the poor house afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nils Henric Liljensparre
Nils Henric Aschan Liljensparre, born ''Sivers'' (22 July 1738, Norrköping - 5 January 1814, Stockholm), was a Swedish police officer. He is most known for conducting the investigation of the regicide of king Gustav III of Sweden in 1792. Liljensparre studied law at Uppsala University and served in Svea hovrätt from 1762. He became an official at the royal council in 1765, secretary in 1772, and the head of the Stockholm police in 1776. Liljensparre is regarded as a devoted and effective police. He did, however, adjust himself to the demands of the crown even in cases when they bent the laws. This made him unpopular, but a favorite of the monarch, who ennobled him under the name Liljensparre in 1786. He organised a network of police agents in Stockholm. In 1792, he was in charge of the investigation of the regicide of King Gustav III of Sweden. He succeeded in identifying the culprit, but his investigation about the plots against the late monarch was not popular with the new re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1757 In Sweden
Events from the year 1757 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Adolf Frederick Events * May - Sweden form an alliance with France and Austria against Prussia. * 13 September - Sweden joins the Seven Years' War through the Pomeranian War. * - A regulation is formed for the ongoing agricultural land reform '' Storskiftet''. * - People with epilepsy are banned from marrying.Sverige 1900-talet – Oönskade i folkhemmet, NE, Bra Böcker, 2000 * - Blockade of Stralsund * - Gustav Badin is presented as a gift to the Queen. * Births * 16 March - Bengt Lidner, poet (died 1793) * 29 March - Carl Axel Arrhenius, chemist (died 1824) * 30 March - Sophie Piper, courtier (died 1816) * 31 March - Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, royal favorite (died 1814) * 14 July - Anders Fredrik Skjöldebrand, minister and general (died 1834) * 27 September – Henric Schartau, pietist (died 1825) * 10 October - Erik Acharius, botanist (died 1819) * Christina Fris, industrialist (died 1835) Deaths * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt
Count Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt (russian: Граф Густав-Маврикий Максимович Армфельт, tr, ; 31 March 1757 – 19 August 1814) was a Finnish-Swedish-Russian courtier and diplomat. In Finland, he is considered one of the greatest Finnish statesmen. His advice to Russia's Tsar Alexander I was of utmost importance for securing the autonomy of the Grand Duchy of Finland. Career Born in Tarvasjoki, Finland, he was the great grandson of Charles XII of Sweden's general, Carl Gustaf Armfeldt. In 1774, Armfelt became an ensign in the guards, but his frivolous behavior involving a duel provoked the displeasure of Gustav III of Sweden. As a result, he thought it prudent to go abroad 1778. Subsequently, however, in 1780, Armfelt met the king again at Spa in the Austrian Netherlands and completely won over the previously disgruntled monarch with his natural amiability, intelligence and social gifts. Henceforth, his fortune was made. At first, he was given t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1754 In Sweden
Events from the year 1754 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Adolf Frederick Events * * * - Foundation of the Stenborg Company, the first known Swedish language theater group to tour Sweden and Finland. * - The cause célèbre of '' Risbadstugan''. * - New law on suicide: people who falsely admitted guilt or committed crimes with the intent of committing suicide through execution were to be punished by pillorying and imprisoned rather than executed.Ohlander, Ann-Sofie, Kärlek, död och frihet: historiska uppsatser om människovärde och livsvillkor i Sverige, Norstedt, Stockholm, 1985 Births * * 29 June - Peter Gustaf Tengmalm, naturalist (died 1803) * June 18 – Anna Maria Lenngren, writer, poet and social critic (died 1817) * 28 July - Abraham Niclas Edelcrantz, poet and inventor (died 1821) * 10 March - Augusta von Fersen courtier, royal mistress and profile of the Gustavian age (died 1846) * 4 December - Nils Lorens Sjöberg, officer and poet (died 1822) * - Caroli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Johan De Besche
Georg Johan De Besche (1754–1814) was a Swedish courtier, colonel, governor and a favorite of Gustav III of Sweden. Georg Johan De Besche was the son of Johan Jacob De Besche and Anna Catharina Hilchen. He never married. He became page to Gustav III in 1770, chamber page in 1774, courtier in 1783 and governor of Stockholm Royal Palace in 1793–94. He had a career in the Västgöta cavalry regiment, where he became a cadet in 1765, lieutenant in 1776, major in 1787 and colonel in 1792. Georg Johan De Besche belonged to the group of male favorites of Gustav III consisting of Adolf Fredrik Munck, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, Fabian Wrede and the brothers Evert Vilhelm Taube and Karl Edvard Taube who was referred to as pet-youths. Like several others of the King's male favorites, he himself was known for his love affairs with women; he was known for his taste for "Vulgar girls", and according to Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Princess Charlotte, he had a bad reputation a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1740 In Sweden
Events from the year 1740 in Sweden. Incumbents * Monarch – Frederick I Events * * * * - Foundation of the retirement fund '' Allmänna Änke- och Pupillkassan i Sverige'' for the destitute widows of civil servants, undermining widow conservation.Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 22. Possession – Retzia * - The Christina Johansdotter case. * - The Hats (party) campaign for a war against the Empire of Russia with French support. * - An unsuccessful attempt is made to exile the King's mistress Hedvig Taube from the country. * December – '' Sagan om hästen'' by Olof von Dalin Births * 4 February – Carl Michael Bellman, poet, songwriter, composer and performer (died 1795) * * * 7 September - Johan Tobias Sergel, neoclassical sculptor (died 1814) * 8 December – Elisabeth Olin, opera singer and a music composer (died 1828) * 16 December - Georg Magnus Sprengtporten, politician (died 1819) Deaths * 30 January – Amalia Königsmarck, dilettante artist (pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Tobias Sergel
Johan Tobias Sergel (; 7 September 1740 in Stockholm – 26 February 1814 in Stockholm) was a Swedish neoclassical sculptor. Sergels torg, the largest square in the centre of Stockholm and near where his workshop stood, is named after him. Life Johan Tobias Sergel was born in Stockholm in 1740. He was the son of the decorator, Christoffer Sergel and Elisabet (née Swyrner), and was the brother of the decorator, Anna Brita Sergel. His first teacher was Pierre Hubert Larchevêsque.New International Encyclopedia, 1905 After studying in Paris, he went to Rome.Chisholm, 1911 He stayed in Rome for twelve years and sculpted a number of groups in marble. Besides subjects from classical mythology such as the ''Diomedes Stealing the Palladium'', which he sold to the British collector, Thomas Mansel Talbot, in 1772, he also sculpted a colossal representation of ''The Muse of History Recording the Deeds of Gustavus Adolphus'', in which are depicted the achievements of King Gustav II Adolf be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovisa Mathilda Nettelbladt
Lovisa Mathilda Nettelbladt (1814–1867), was a Swedish novelist and travel writer. She wrote under the pseudonym m-n. She lived in the United States between 1850 and 1856, and she is foremost known for her travel book about her life in North America, which belongs to the earliest literature published of a Swedish emigrant as well as a Swedish female emigrant to the USA.Lovisa Mathilda Nettelbladt, www.skbl.se/sv/artikel/LovisaMathildaNettelbladt, Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (artikel av Carina Lidström), hämtad 2020-07-15. Biography She was born to the merchant Fredrik Nettelbladt and Carolina Elisabet Charlotta Lochner. She was never married. Her father declared bankruptcy in 1838, and she supported herself as a governess. She published a novel in 1824, which was translated to German in 1848. In 1850, her father died, and she left for North America in the company of her friend Hedvig Eleonora Hammarskjöld. She spent six years in the USA, foremost in North Carolina and Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilhelm Pettersson
Per Johan Vilhelm Pettersson (1814-1854), was a Swedish ballet dancer. He was an elite member of first the Royal Swedish Ballet during the mid 19th-century, and a deputy ballet master. Vilhelm Pettersson was reportedly from a poor background as the son of laborers. During his childhood, he was once asked to perform a simple extra role in a ballet performance, and liked it so much that he wished to become a dancer. He became a student of the Royal Swedish Ballet in 1826, premier student in 1834, second-dancer in 1835, and was a premier- and grotesque dancer in 1838-54. During the 1830s, he was referred to as one of the male stars of the ballet alongside Anders Selinder, Per Christian Johansson and Carl Wilhelm Silfverberg. He was deputy Ballet Master of the Royal Ballet from 1846-1851. It was said of him: :"Pettersson had quite long legs, which he displayed around him in his Grotesque dance with careless extravagance, and when he toured the countryside during the summ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1887 In Sweden
Events from the year 1887 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Robert Themptander Events * - Swedish State Railways established. * - Swedish Painters' Union founded. * - ''Arbetet'' * - Old Stockholm telephone tower * - ''Örgryte IS'' * - First issue of the women's issue Idun (magazine). Births * 17 February – Nils Granfelt, gymnast (died 1959). * 16 June – Hugo Johansson, sport shooter (died 1977). * 18 December – Algot Lönn, cyclist (died 1953). Deaths * 7 February – Hanna Brooman, composer, translator and educator (born 1809) * Hedvig Willman, actress (born 1841) * Antoinette Nording, perfume entrepreneur (born 1814 Events January * January 1 – War of the Sixth Coalition – The Royal Prussian Army led by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher crosses the Rhine. * January 3 ** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Cattaro: French garrison s ...) References Years of the 19th century in Swede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
