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1903 In Sweden
Events from the year 1903 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Erik Gustaf Boström Events * The National Association for Women's Suffrage is founded. * Agnes Arvidsson becomes the first woman to graduate in pharmacology. * Public medical offices open to women. * Forming of the Central Employers' Association (SAF) ** The SAF game rather late in the labor union movement of Sweden ** Counterpart of the labor union, LO ** Acted as open cartel Popular culture Literature * August Strindberg's novel ''Alone'' ( sv, Ensam) is published. Births * 31 January – Ivar Johansson, wrestler (died 1979). * 21 June – Alf Sjöberg, theatre and film director (died 1980) Exact date missing * Israel Ruong, Swedish-Sámi linguist and politician (died 1986). Deaths * 19 May – Carl Snoilsky, poet (born 1841) * 27 July – Lina Sandell, hymn writer (born 1832). * 14 September – Johanna Berglind, sign language teacher and principal (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903
Events January * January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India. * January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been made in 1901). February * February 13 – Venezuelan crisis: After agreeing to arbitration in Washington, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy reach a settlement with Venezuela resulting in the Washington Protocols. The naval blockade that began in 1902 will end. * February 23 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity". March * March 2 – In New York City, the Martha Washington Hotel, the first hotel exclusively for women, opens. * March 3 – The British Admiralty announces plans to build a naval base at Rosyth. * March 5 – The Ottoman Empire and the German Empire sign an agreement to build the Constantinople–Baghdad Railway. * March 12 – The University of Puerto Rico is found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivar Johansson (wrestler)
Ivar Valentin Johansson (31 January 1903 – 4 August 1979) was a Sweden, Swedish Amateur wrestling, wrestler who competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics, 1928, 1932 Summer Olympics, 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1932 he won the gold medal in the Greco-Roman welterweight and freestyle middleweight events. Four years later he won the gold medal in the Greco-Roman middleweight competition. Career At the 1932 Olympics Johansson first competed as a freestyle middleweight. Despite being a favorite, he lost his first bout to Kyösti Luukko. Yet he won his all other bouts by fall, while Luukko lost in the semifinals and finished second. Two days later he was scheduled to compete as a Greco-Roman welterweight. For this purpose he shed five kilograms of bodyweight by fasting and sweating in a sauna, yet relatively easily won all four bouts. Later the same year he was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal. Johansson never competed at the world championships. At the European champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 In Sweden
Events from the year 1903 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Erik Gustaf Boström Events * The National Association for Women's Suffrage is founded. * Agnes Arvidsson becomes the first woman to graduate in pharmacology. * Public medical offices open to women. * Forming of the Central Employers' Association (SAF) ** The SAF game rather late in the labor union movement of Sweden ** Counterpart of the labor union, LO ** Acted as open cartel Popular culture Literature * August Strindberg's novel '' Alone'' ( sv, Ensam) is published. Births * 31 January – Ivar Johansson, wrestler (died 1979). * 21 June – Alf Sjöberg, theatre and film director (died 1980) Exact date missing * Israel Ruong, Swedish-Sámi linguist and politician (died 1986). Deaths * 19 May – Carl Snoilsky, poet (born 1841) * 27 July – Lina Sandell, hymn writer (born 1832). * 14 September – Johanna Berglind, sign language teacher and principal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1830 In Sweden
Events from the year 1830 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Charles XIV John of Sweden, Charles XIV John Events * December - First issue of ''Aftonbladet''.Karl Erik Gustafsson; Per Rydén (2010). A History of the Press in Sweden (PDF). Gothenburg: Nordicom. . Retrieved 13 February 2015. * - Royal Swedish Yacht Club is founded * - Västanfors Church is completed * - ''Familjen H***'' by Fredrika Bremer * - ' (part 1) by Johan Anders Wadman * - ''Alarik eller Wikingarne'' by Amelie von Strussenfelt Births * 24 April – Princess Eugenie of Sweden and Norway, princess (died 1889 in Sweden , 1889) * 17 May – Louise Michaëli, opera singer (died 1875 in Sweden , 1875) * 2 September – Josefina Wettergrund, writer (died 1903 in Sweden , 1903) * 25 November – Karin Åhlin, educator (died 1899 in Sweden , 1899) * - Gumman Strömberg, local profile (died 1894 in Sweden , 1894) * - Aurore von Haxthausen, composer (died 1888 in Swede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josefina Wettergrund
''Josefina'' Leontina Amanda Wettergrund, née ''Lundberg'' pseudonym ''Lea'' (2 September 1830, in Ronneby – 8 March 1903, in Stockholm), was a Swedish writer and poet. She was the editor of the family magazine ''Svalan'' in 1871–75. Life She was born to the custom official Carl Gustaf Kjellberg and Ulrika Lundberg. She was active as a governess and managed a girl school in Ronneby in 1850–1857 before she married the telegrapher Wilhelm Wettergrund and moved to Kalmar. From 1866, she lived in Stockholm. She debuted as a published poet in 1858, and continued to contribute to various magazines and papers. In 1871–75, she edited the weekly family magazine ''Svalan'', where August Strindberg debuted as a novelist. She was a well known and popular writer in contemporary 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Berglind
Johanna "Jeanette" Apollonia Berglind (21 August 1816, in Stockholm – 14 September 1903, in Stockholm), was a Swedish sign language teacher and principal. In 1860, she founded one of the first schools for the deaf and mute in her country: '' Tysta Skolan'' (Silent School) in Stockholm. Biography Johanna Berglind became an orphan early in life and was adopted by a widow: from about the age of ten, she was the ward of a relative of her late mother, Per Aron Borg, who was the pioneer of the education of deaf and mute in Sweden and the founder and principal of Manillaskolan (originally , 'Public Institute of the Blind and Deaf') in Stockholm. Berglind had weak health for many years after having broken her leg at the age of three. From 1834 to 1840, she was a teacher at the institute for the deaf and mute operated by Borg. After his death in 1839, she supported herself as a governess, housekeeper and a lady's companion. Berglind had the ambition to found a school pension for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Sandell
Lina Sandell (full name: Karolina Wilhelmina Sandell-Berg) (3 October 1832 – 27 July 1903) was a Swedish poet and author of gospel hymns. Background The daughter of a Lutheran minister, Sandell grew up in the rectory at Fröderyd parish in the Diocese of Växjö in Småland, Sweden. Lina greatly loved and admired her father. Since she was a frail youngster, she generally preferred to be with him in his study rather than with comrades outdoors. When Lina was just 12 years of age, she had an experience that greatly shaped her entire life. At an early age she had been stricken with a partial paralysis that confined her to bed much of the time. Though the physicians considered her chance for a complete recovery hopeless, her parents always believed that God would in time make her well again. One Sunday morning, while her parents were in church, Lina began reading the Bible and praying earnestly. When her parents returned, they were amazed to find her dressed and walking freely. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Snoilsky
Count Carl Johan Gustaf Snoilsky (8 September 1841 – 19 May 1903) was a Swedish lyric poet, known for his realist poetry. Biography Snoilsky was born in Stockholm to Sigrid (née Banér), a painter and countess, and Nils Snoilsky, a Justice and Chamberlain Count. He was educated at the Clara School and Stockholms lyceum and in 1860 became a student at the University of Uppsala. He was trained for diplomacy, which he quit for work at the Swedish Foreign Ministry. As early as 1861, under the pseudonym of Sven Tröst, he began to print poems, and he soon became the center of the brilliant literary society of the capital. In 1862 he published a collection of lyrics called ''Orchideer'' ("Orchids"). During 1864 and 1865 he was in Madrid and Paris on diplomatic missions. It was in 1869, when he first collected his ''Dikter'' under his own name, that Snoilsky took rank among the most eminent contemporary poets. His ''Sonnetter'' in 1871 increased his reputation. Then, for some ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Sandell
Lina Sandell (full name: Karolina Wilhelmina Sandell-Berg) (3 October 1832 – 27 July 1903) was a Swedish poet and author of gospel hymns. Background The daughter of a Lutheran minister, Sandell grew up in the rectory at Fröderyd parish in the Diocese of Växjö in Småland, Sweden. Lina greatly loved and admired her father. Since she was a frail youngster, she generally preferred to be with him in his study rather than with comrades outdoors. When Lina was just 12 years of age, she had an experience that greatly shaped her entire life. At an early age she had been stricken with a partial paralysis that confined her to bed much of the time. Though the physicians considered her chance for a complete recovery hopeless, her parents always believed that God would in time make her well again. One Sunday morning, while her parents were in church, Lina began reading the Bible and praying earnestly. When her parents returned, they were amazed to find her dressed and walking freely. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Ruong
Israel Ruong (1903 Arjeplog, Sweden −1986) was a Swedish-Sámi linguist, politician and professor of Sámi languages and culture at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. Israel Ruong spoke Pite Sámi as his mother tongue. His parents were catechists, who lived on the shores of Lake Labbas in the Sámi village of Harrok. His parents and a number of his siblings succumbed to the Spanish flu that rampaged through Arjeplog in 1920. His upbringing in Harrok is described in detail in his article "Harrok-ett samiskt nybygge i Pite Lappmark", which was published in the Festschrift for Asbjørn Nesheim entitled ''Kultur på karrig jord : festskrift til Asbjørn Nesheim''. He received his training to become a teacher in Luleå, after which he went on to work as a teacher in the nomad school in Jukkasjärvi. In 1943, he defended his dissertation entitled ''Lappische Verbalableitung dargestellt auf Grundlage des Pitelappischen.'' From 1947 to 1967, he served as the inspector for noma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alf Sjöberg
Sven Erik Alf Sjöberg (21 June 1903 – 17 April 1980) was a Sweden, Swedish theatre director, theatre and film director. He won the Palme d'Or, Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice: in 1946 for ''Torment (1944 film), Torment'' ( sv, Hets) (part of an eleven-way tie), and in 1951 for his film ''Miss Julie (1951 film), Miss Julie'' ( sv, Fröken Julie) (an adaptation of August Strindberg's play which tied with Vittorio De Sica's ''Miracle in Milan''). Despite his success with those films, Sjöberg was foremost a stage director, perhaps the greatest at Dramaten (alongside first Olof Molander and later Ingmar Bergman). He was a First Director of Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre between 1930 and 1980; he staged there many remarkable and historic productions. Sjöberg was also a pioneer director of drama for early Swedish TV (his 1955 TV production of ''Hamlet'' is a national milestone). At the 3rd Guldbagge Awards Sjöberg won the award for Guldbagge Award for Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alone (Strindberg)
''Alone'' ( sv, Ensam) is a novella from 1903 by Swedish writer August Strindberg. The protagonist is a 50-year-old writer who has returned to Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ... after spending several years in the countryside. The novel has been subject to treatment by a number of literary researchers. An English translation of the novella by Arvid Paulson was published under the title ''Days of Loneliness'' (New York: Phaedra, 1971). Further reading * * * * References Novels by August Strindberg 1903 Swedish novels Swedish novellas Novels set in Stockholm Swedish-language novels {{1900s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
