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1895 In Sweden
Events from the year 1895 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Erik Gustaf Boström. Events * ÅF * Bollnäs GIF * Cederroth * Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna * IFK Askersund * IFK Stockholm * Stockholms KK * IFK Sundsvall * Swedish Sailing Federation * IFK Uppsala Fotboll Births * 2 January – Folke Bernadotte, diplomat (died 1948) * 9 January – Greta Johansson, diver (died 1978). * 17 June – Ruben Rausing, entrepreneur, founder of Tetra Pak (died 1983). * 12 September – Yngve Holm, sailor (died 1943). * 18 December – Ture Hedman, gymnast (died 1950). Deaths * 30 January - Hilda Petrini, watchmaker (born 1838) * 25 March''Svenskt konstnärslexikon'', Part V, pg. 572, Allhems Förlag AB, 1953, Malmö. - Bertha Valerius, photographer (born 1824) * 6 June - Gustaf Nordenskiöld, explorer (born 1868) * 31 December – Augusta Dorothea Eklund, street peddler and eccentric (born 1826) * Angelique Magito, actress (born 1809) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1895
Events January–March * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. * January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty is founded in England by Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. * January 13 – First Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Coatit – Italian forces defeat the Ethiopians. * January 17 – Félix Faure is elected President of the French Republic, after the resignation of Jean Casimir-Perier. * February 9 – Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke, Massachusetts. * February 11 – The lowest ever UK temperature of is recorded at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire. This record is equalled in 1982, and again in 1995. * February 14 – Oscar Wilde's last play, the comedy ''The Importance of Being Earnest'', is first shown at St James's Theatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folke Bernadotte
Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat. In World War II he negotiated the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps, including 450 Danish Jews from the Theresienstadt camp. They were released on 14 April 1945. In 1945 he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler, though the offer was ultimately rejected. After the war, Bernadotte was unanimously chosen to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Arab–Israeli conflict of 1947–1948. He was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948 by the paramilitary Zionist group Lehi while pursuing his official duties. Upon his death, Ralph Bunche took up his work at the UN, successfully mediating the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and Egypt. Early life Folke Bernadotte was born in Stockholm into the House of Bernadotte, the Swedish royal family. His father, Prince Oscar Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (formerly P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusta Dorothea Eklund
Augusta Dorothea Eklund (2 September 1826 – 31 December 1895, in Stockholm) known in history by her sobriquet Trasfröken ('Miss Rags'), was a famous homeless street peddler and eccentric in Stockholm. A well-known part of Stockholm street life in the second half of the 19th century, she was the subject of contemporary folklore, mentioned in contemporary diaries, memoirs and media. Life Eklund was born to a shoemaker and a corset maker in Stockholm. After the death of her parents, she supported two younger sisters Ida and Karolina by her late mother's trade: that of a corset seamstress. After one of her sisters died and the other one left home to work in the theater, Eklund was affected by depression, which eventually reduced her to a homeless destitute. She lived in various temporary huts she built herself around the city, and supported herself by selling needles for a price above their worth from door to door as månglare: reportedly, she managed to sell because she often lost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1868 In Sweden
Events from the year 1868 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XV Events * 19 September - inauguration of Dalsland Canal. * 1 November - Folk high school introduced in Sweden. * Bladin's International School * United Methodist Church of Sweden Births * January 19 - Ebba Atterbom, translator and educator (died 1961) * February 23 - Anna Hofman-Uddgren, Cabaret singer and movie director (died 1947) * April 7 - Herman Bernhard Lundborg, physician and a race biologist. (died 1943) * April 25 - Ernst Linder, arny general who served in the Swedish Army from 1887 to 1918 (died 1943) * June 29 - Gustaf Nordenskiöld, scholar who was the first to scientifically study the ancient Pueblo ruins in Mesa Verde. (died 1895) * July 24 - Axel Elof Jäderholm, zoologist and botanist (died 1927) * September 6 - Axel Hägerström, philosopher (died 1939) * November 15 - Josef Hammar, military surgeon and adventurer (died 1927) * October 18 - Ernst Didring, leader of the Swedish Red Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustaf Nordenskiöld
Gustaf Nordenskiöld (29 June 1868 – 6 June 1895) was a Swedish scholar of Finnish-Swedish descent who was the first to scientifically study the ancient Pueblo ruins in Mesa Verde. He was a member of the Nordenskiöld family of scientists and the eldest son of polar explorer Baron Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and his equally aristocratic wife, Anna Maria Mannerheim. Nordenskiöld was featured on the Ken Burns PBS series '' The National Parks: America's Best Idea''. Early life Nordenskiöld completed school at Beskowska skolan in Stockholm and studied at Uppsala University and the new University of Stockholm, graduating with a B.A. from Uppsala in 1889. The next year (1890) he traveled to Svalbard together with J. A. Björling and A. Klinckowström, bringing a collection of plant fossils back to the Swedish Museum of Natural History. After his return, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and went to Berlin for treatment. Nordenskiöld in America Nordenskiöld's North Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1824 In Sweden
Events from the year 1824 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIV John Events * 2 January - First issue of the conservative ''Stockholms Dagblad''."Sweden: historical and statistical handbook". Runeberg. Retrieved 11 February 2015. * - First issue of ''Linköpings ASS''. * - Jöns Jacob Berzelius identifies boron. Births * 21 January - Bertha Valerius, photographer and painter (died 1895) * 28 June - Adolf W. Edelsvärd, architect (died 1919) * 25 November- Amalia Eriksson, inventor of the polkagris, (died 1923) * 27 December – Charlotta Norberg, ballerina (died 1892) Deaths * 28 June - Hans Henric von Essen, politician and courtier (born 1755) * 20 November - Carl Axel Arrhenius, chemist (born 1757 Events January–March * January 2 – Seven Years' War: The British Army, under the command of Robert Clive, captures Calcutta, India. * January 5 – Robert-François Damiens makes an unsuccessful assassination attempt ...) Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertha Valerius
Aurora Valeria Albertina Valerius, known as Bertha (21 January 1824, Stockholm – 24 March 1895, Stockholm), was a Swedish photographer and painter.''Svenskt konstnärslexikon'', Part V, pg. 572, Allhems Förlag AB, 1953, Malmö. Biography Bertha Valerius was born to Chancellor , a member of the Swedish Academy, and Kristina Aurora Ingell. Her sister was the singer and painter Baroness Adelaïde Leuhusen. Beginning in 1849, she studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and received a scholarship to study in Düsseldorf, Dresden and Paris. Upon her return, she entered a career as a portrait painter. In 1853 and 1856, she participated in exhibitions at the Academy. Later, she had the opportunity to accompany her sister and the opera singer Kristina Nilsson to Paris, acting as her chaperone. During her second stay in Paris, she became interested in photography and, upon her return in 1862, she opened her own studio in Stockholm; soon becoming one of Stockholm's most notable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svenskt Konstnärslexikon
The ''Svenskt konstnärslexikon'' is a dictionary of Swedish art and artists that was published in five volumes by Allhems Förlag AB from 1952 to 1967. LIBRIS. Retrieved 4 November 2016. The dictionary includes over 12,000 biographical entries for Swedish artists with detailed bibliographies for each entry. The editors were , Bror Olsson Bror is a Scandinavian masculine given name which simply means 'brother'. The name has been found as early as in runestones in the form Brodhir. The name form Bror is known since the year 15 ...
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1838 In Sweden
Events from the year 1838 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIV John Events * 7 March – Jenny Lind as her breakthrough in ''Der Freischütz'' by Carl Maria von Weber at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. * The state licensed brothels, London and Stadt Hamburg, open in the capital in an attempt by the city authorities to control the spread of sexual disease.Svanström, Yvonne, Offentliga kvinnor: prostitution i Sverige 1812-1918 ublic Women: Prostitution in Sweden 1812-1918 Ordfront, Stockholm, 2006 (Swedish) * - Rabulist riots * - First issue of ''Borås Tidning'' * - First issue of ''Östgöta Correspondenten'' * - Foundation of the philanthropic sewing society by Emilie Petersen. Births * 20 July – Paul Peter Waldenström, theologian (died 1917) * 14 September - Hanna Ouchterlony, Salvationist (died 1924) * 4 December - Hanna Winge, painter (died 1896) * - Hilda Petrini, watch maker (died 1895) * - Betty Pettersson, first female university stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilda Petrini
Hilda Catharina Petrini (9 October 1838, Stockholm – 30 January 1895, Stockholm) was a Swedish watchmaker, clock maker and businesswoman. She has been referred to as the first female master of mechanics of her country. Life and work Hilda Petrini belonged to a wealthy old merchant family of Italian descent in Stockholm. During her youth, Petrini was a skillful swimmer and for a time assisted Nancy Edberg who gave swimming lessons for Louise of the Netherlands and her daughter Louise of Sweden.''Hilda Catharina Petrini, www.skbl.se/sv/artikel/HildaPetrini, Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (article by Camilla Bergvall), retrieved 2022-02-10.'' https://skbl.se/en/article/HildaPetrini Even as a young girl, her affinity for mechanics was noticeable. At that time echanicswas considered an unusual skill for a girl to master. Victor Söderberg, a manufacturer of chronometers, was at the family home on one occasion when he gave her some challenging mechanical exercises to do. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ture Hedman
Ture Eskil Hedman (18 December 1895 – 3 August 1950) was a Swedish gymnast who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van .... He was part of the Swedish team that won the all-around Swedish system event. References 1895 births 1950 deaths Swedish male artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1920 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts of Sweden Olympic gold medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Stockholm {{Sweden-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yngve Holm
Yngve Robert Holm (12 September 1895 – 16 February 1943) was a Swedish sailor A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship. The profession of the s ... who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the Swedish boat ''Sif'', which won the gold medal in the 40m² Skerry cruiser. References Sources * External links * * 1895 births 1943 deaths Swedish male sailors (sport) Sailors at the 1920 Summer Olympics – 40m2 Skerry cruiser Olympic sailors of Sweden Olympic gold medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in sailing Norrköpings Segelsällskap sailors Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics People from Västervik Municipality Sportspeople from Kalmar County 20th-century Swedish people {{Sweden-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
