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1901 In Sweden
Events from the year 1901 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Fredrik von Otter Events * 9–17 February – The first Nordic Games take place in Stockholm. * A military reform abolish the Allotment system with conscription. * Women are given four weeks maternity leave. * Foundation of the Swedish Union of Journalists. * A name ordinance is put in legal effect, regulating the uses of first names, surnames and family names . Popular culture Theatre * ''Easter'' ( sv, Påsk), play by August Strindberg. * ''A Dream Play'' by August Strindberg. Births * 28 March – Princess Märtha of Sweden (died 1954) * 13 June – Tage Erlander, politician (died 1985) * 18 August – Arne Borg, swimmer (died 1979) * 13 October – Irja Agnes Browallius, writer (died 1968) Deaths * 11 April – Ivar Hallström, composer (born 1826) * 24 April – Arvid Posse, prime minister (born 1828) * 5 May – Axel Wilhelm Eriksson, Swedish se ... [...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] |
Irja Agnes Browallius
Irja Agnes Browallius (13 October 1901 – 9 December 1968) was a Swedish teacher, novelist and short story writer. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1962. Personal life Browallius was born in Helsinki on 13 October 1901, a daughter of actors Carl Browallius and Gerda Pisani. She moved to Sweden shortly after her birth. She died in Lidingö Lidingö, also known in its definite form ''Lidingön'' and as ''Lidingölandet'', is an island in the inner Stockholm archipelago, northeast of Stockholm, Sweden. In 2010, the population of the Lidingö urban area on the island was 31,561. It is ... on 9 December 1968. References Further reading * 1901 births 1968 deaths Dobloug Prize winners 20th-century Swedish novelists Swedish women novelists Swedish women short story writers Swedish short story writers 20th-century Swedish women writers 20th-century short story writers {{Sweden-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1901 In Sweden
Events from the year 1901 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Fredrik von Otter Events * 9–17 February – The first Nordic Games take place in Stockholm. * A military reform abolish the Allotment system with conscription. * Women are given four weeks maternity leave. * Foundation of the Swedish Union of Journalists. * A name ordinance is put in legal effect, regulating the uses of first names, surnames and family names . Popular culture Theatre * ''Easter'' ( sv, Påsk), play by August Strindberg. * ''A Dream Play'' by August Strindberg. Births * 28 March – Princess Märtha of Sweden (died 1954) * 13 June – Tage Erlander, politician (died 1985) * 18 August – Arne Borg, swimmer (died 1979) * 13 October – Irja Agnes Browallius, writer (died 1968) Deaths * 11 April – Ivar Hallström, composer (born 1826) * 24 April – Arvid Posse, prime minister (born 1828) * 5 May – Axel Wilhelm Eriksson, Swedish se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Axel Elmlund
Axel Elmlund (1838-1901), was a Swedish ballet dancer and stage actor. He was the son of the shoemaker Sven Axel Elmlund and Christina Dorothea Wilhelmina Björkman. He never married. He was a student of the Royal Swedish Ballet at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1850-55, a figurant dancer in 1855-58, and a pantomime dancer in 1858-61. He was a recognized for his ability as a dancer by August Bournonville, who reportedly lamented Elmlund's choice to interrupt a promising career as a dancer to retrain as an actor instead. In 1856, he became a student actor at the Royal Dramatic Theatre The Royal Dramatic Theatre ( sv, Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, colloquially ''Dramaten'') is Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", founded in 1788. Around one thousand shows are put on annually on the theatre's five running stages. The the ..., where he was engaged in 1858-1891 - from 1864 as a premier actor. He was also active as a stage director. Axel Elmlund attracted attention for his hands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilda Caselli
Hilda Wilhelmina Josefina Caselli, or ''Casselli'' (1836-22 August 1903) was a Swedish reform educator. She played an important role in the debate of educational issues and women's education in Sweden in the late 19th century. She served as principal of the '' Statens normalskola för flickor'' and vice principal of the ''Högre lärarinneseminariet'', and became the founder of the regular national girls' school meetings, ''Flickskolemöte'', in 1879. Biography Hilda Caselli was born and raised at Gammelsbo in Ramsberg in Västmanland, were her father was employed as the manager of an estate. Her father became blind in 1859, and the family moved to Uppsala, were her brothers studied at the university: similar to many females of her generation, she and her sisters were in contrast educated in very little more than to manage a household at home. She found this unfair, which reportedly affected her. As an adult, she educated herself in the governess training course at the newly fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuella Carlbeck
Emanuella Ottiliana Carlbeck (24 August 1829 – 10 September 1901) was a Swedish pedagogue and is counted as a pioneer in the education of students with Intellectual disability.Grunewald, Karl (2009). Från idiot till medborgare: de utvecklingsstördas historia (utgåva 1. uppl.). Stockholm: Gothia. Libris 11309303. (inb.) She founded the first institution for people with Intellectual disabilities in Gothenburg in 1866. The institution included a school, a working home and an asylum for patients. Life Emanuella Carlbeck was the daughter of a vicar, Johan Carlbeck, and Gustava Rebecka Syk, the daughter of a restaurant owner in Karlstad. Emanuella worked as a caretaker and governess as an adult and never married. Her concern for children born with intellectual disabilities was initiated by the birth of her nephew, who had this disability, by her sister Ephraima. In mid 19th-century Sweden, there were no institutions for these children, nor any places in the public eye whatsoever: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnar Wennerberg
Gunnar Wennerberg (2 October 1817 – 24 August 1901) was a Swedish poet, composer and politician. Biography Wennerberg was the son of the vicar of the town of Lidköping in Västergötland, went to '' gymnasium'' in the cathedral town of Skara, and matriculated as a student at Uppsala University in 1837, where he studied natural sciences, Classical philology, Philosophy and Aesthetics. He received his filosofie magister degree in 1845 and became a docent of Aesthetics in 1846. Wennerberg was remarkable in several ways, handsome in face and tall in figure, with a finely trained singing voice, and brilliant in wit and conversation. From the outset of his career he was accepted in the inner circle of men of light and leading for which the university was at that time famous. In 1843 he became a member of the musical club who called themselves The Juvenals, and for their meetings were written the trios and duets, music and words, which Wennerberg began to publish in 1846. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (18 November 183212 August 1901) was a Finland-Swedish aristocrat, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the Fenno-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists and held the title of a friherre (baron). Born in the Grand Duchy of Finland at the time it was a part of the Russian Empire, he was later, due to his political activity, forced to move to Sweden, where he later became a member of the Parliament of Sweden and of the Swedish Academy. He led the ''Vega'' Expedition along the northern coast of Eurasia in 1878–1879. This was the first complete crossing of the Northeast Passage. Initially a troubled enterprise, the successful expedition is considered to be among the highest achievements in the history of Swedish science. Nordenskiöld family The Nordenskiölds were an old Fenno-Swedish family, and members of the nobility. Nordenskiöld's father, Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld, was a Finnish mineralogist, civil servant an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South-West Africa
South West Africa ( af, Suidwes-Afrika; german: Südwestafrika; nl, Zuidwest-Afrika) was a territory under South African administration from 1915 to 1990, after which it became modern-day Namibia. It bordered Angola (Portuguese colony before 1975), Botswana ( Bechuanaland before 1966), South Africa, and Zambia (Northern Rhodesia before 1964). Previously the German colony of South West Africa from 1884–1915, it was made a League of Nations mandate of the Union of South Africa following Germany's defeat in the First World War. Although the mandate was abolished by the United Nations in 1966, South African control over the territory continued despite its illegality under international law. The territory was administered directly by the South African government from 1915 to 1978, when the Turnhalle Constitutional Conference laid the groundwork for semi-autonomous rule. During an interim period between 1978 and 1985, South Africa gradually granted South West Africa a limited for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Wilhelm Eriksson
Axel Wilhelm Eriksson (24 August 1846 – 5 May 1901) was a Swedish ornithologist, settler and trader in what is now Namibia. He was born in Vänersborg, in Sweden. Eriksson went to South West Africa in 1866 (before Germany had established its colony of German South West Africa in 1884) to serve out a three-year apprenticeship to Charles John Andersson. In 1871, with Swede Anders Ohlsson, he established a brewery at Omaruru. Eriksson established a trading post there, which flourished and by 1878 employed about forty whites. Eriksson's business was based upon long-distance trading between southern Angola and Cape Colony, which necessitated the establishment of regional trade routes. He also built up an extensive bird collection, specimens coming from South West Africa, Angola and the Transvaal (now Gauteng Province in South Africa), the bulk of which has since been donated to the municipal museum in Vänersborg. His activities gained much respect from a wide range of communities, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvid Posse
Count Arvid Rutger Fredriksson Posse (15 February 1820 – 24 April 1901) was the prime minister of Sweden from 1880 to 1883. Family background and education Posse was born at Rosendal manor in Malmöhus County, as the son of Governor Count Fredrik Posse and Baroness Magdalena Charlotta Bennet. In 1835 he enrolled at Lund University, receiving a law degree in 1840. The same year, he began as a trainee at the Court of Appeal of Skåne and Blekinge (''Hovrätten över Skåne och Blekinge''), during which time he worked both at district courts and at the Court of Appeal itself. Later, he was appointed assistant district judge (''vice häradshövding'') and in 1846 a clerk at the Court of Appeal, and in 1847 was made an associate justice at the court. In 1849 Posse left public service and resettled at Charlottenlund Manor and devoted his time to agriculture, enterprise and local politics (being, e.g., 1865–68 the president of Malmöhus County Council). Political career Posse began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
