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1919 In Sweden
Events from the year 1919 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustaf V * Prime Minister - Nils Edén Events * 24 May - Women suffrage is approved by parliament and are to be used for the first time in the 1921 election. * 18 September - AB Svensk Filmindustri (SF) is founded. Births * 4 July - Gerd Hagman, actress (died 2011) * 17 August - Ulla Ryghe, film editor (died 2011 in Canada) * 21 November - Gert Fredriksson, canoer (died 2006) * 31 December - Folke Alnevik, athlete Deaths * 22 January - Carl Larsson, painter (born 1853) * 20 February - Augusta Lundin, fashion designer (born 1840) * 29 July - Martina Bergman-Österberg, physical education instructor (born 1849) * 10 September - Helena Munktell, composer (born 1852) * 3 November - Alina Jägerstedt, trade unionist and social democrat (born 1853) * Rosalie Sjöman, photographer (born 1833) References {{Years in Sweden Years of the 20th century in Sweden Sweden Sweden, formally the Ki ... [...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] |
Folke Alnevik
Arvid Folke Alnevik (31 December 1919 – 17 August 2020) was a Swedish sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. His best results were in the 4×400 metre relay, winning bronze medals at the 1946 European Championships and the 1948 Summer Olympics. Alnevik was a career military officer and retired with the rank of Major. After that he worked as a sports official and was a driving force behind promotion of golf in the Gävle area. As of the 2018 Winter Olympics, he held the status as the oldest living Olympic medalist. Alnevik contracted COVID-19 in 2020 and was able to overcome it, but died from complications of a bedsore Pressure ulcers, also known as pressure sores, bed sores or pressure injuries, are localised damage to the skin and/or underlying tissue that usually occur over a bony prominence as a result of usually long-term pressure, or pressure in combi ... on 17 August 2020. References External links * * 1919 births 2020 deaths Athletes (track and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 In Sweden
Events from the year 1919 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustaf V * Prime Minister - Nils Edén Events * 24 May - Women suffrage is approved by parliament and are to be used for the first time in the 1921 election. * 18 September - AB Svensk Filmindustri (SF) is founded. Births * 4 July - Gerd Hagman, actress (died 2011) * 17 August - Ulla Ryghe, film editor (died 2011 in Canada) * 21 November - Gert Fredriksson, canoer (died 2006) * 31 December - Folke Alnevik, athlete Deaths * 22 January - Carl Larsson, painter (born 1853) * 20 February - Augusta Lundin, fashion designer (born 1840) * 29 July - Martina Bergman-Österberg, physical education instructor (born 1849) * 10 September - Helena Munktell, composer (born 1852) * 3 November - Alina Jägerstedt, trade unionist and social democrat (born 1853) * Rosalie Sjöman, photographer (born 1833) References {{Years in Sweden Years of the 20th century in Sweden Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1833 In Sweden
Events from the year 1833 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIV John Events * Pilt Carin Ersdotter arrives to Stockholm where she attracts great attention as ''The beautiful Dalarna girl''.Lisbet Scheutz (2001 (2003) nuytgåva). Berömda och glömda stockholmskvinnor: sju stadsvandringar: 155 kvinnoporträtt. Stockholm: MBM. Libris 8392583 * - ''Törnrosens bok'' by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist Births * 21 March - Carl Stål, entomologist specialising in Hemiptera (died 1878) * 11 April - Fredrik von Otter, Prime Minister (died 1910) * July 24 - Gustaf Åkerhielm, Prime Minister (died 1900) * 21 October - Alfred Nobel, chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer (died 1896) * 10 December - Ellen Anckarsvärd, women's rights activist (died 1898) * Rosalie Sjöman, photographer (died 1919) Deaths * 28 May - Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner, composer (born 1759) * 1 June - Rudolf Cederström, naval commander (born 1764) * 24 July - Hedda Wrange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalie Sjöman
Rosalie Sofie Sjöman (née Hammarqvist, 1833–1919) was an early Swedish female photographer. From the mid-1860s, she became one of Stockholm's most highly regarded portrait photographers. Biography Born on 16 October 1833 in Kalmar in the south of Sweden, Sjöman was the daughter of John Peter Hammarqvist, a captain in the merchant navy. When she turned 22, she married Captain Sven Sjöman, who was 15 years senior to her. After moving to Stockholm in 1857, the couple had two sons and a daughter. When her husband died of alcoholism in 1864, she worked as the assistant to the photographer Carl Johan Malmberg who had established one of the city's earliest photographic studios in 1859. She later took over his studio and operated it in her own name. Sjöman soon gained a reputation as one of Stockholm's best portrait photographers. She eventually employed a staff of some ten assistants, opening studios in Kalmar, Halmstad and Vaxholm. She was also conversant with the latest techniq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alina Jägerstedt
Alina Josefina Rosalie Jägerstedt (3 June 1858 – 3 November 1919) was a Swedish social democrat and trade unionist. She was the only female member at the congress of 1889, where the Swedish Social Democratic Party was founded. She participated as the representative for the (Scandinavian Tobacco Worker's Union). Thanks to the motion she presented at the congress, both sexes were included in the Swedish Social Democratic Party from the start. Life Alina Jägerstedt was born in family of the Stockholm working class. Her father, police officer Anders Johan Jägerstedt, died shortly after her birth, and her two brothers were placed in an orphanage (Stora Barnhuset) because her mother was unable to support all of her children as a widow. Jägerstedt started to work in the tobacco industry at the age of twelve. After having a child early with a man who abandoned her, she supported both herself, her daughter and her elderly mother alone. Jägerstedt joined the '' Skandinaviska Tobaks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1852 In Sweden
Events from the year 1852 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar I Events * - Amalia Assur becomes the first female dentist in Sweden.Kjellander Barbro: "På Amalia Assurs tid. Några anteckningar om och kring den första svenska kvinnliga tandläkaren" (The days of Amalia Assur. Some notes about and in connection to the first female dentist in Sweden) * - The manufacturer ''Hästens'' is established. * - ''Kungsportsplatsen'' is inaugurated. * - Sophia Posse takes over the ''Hammarstedtska skolan''. Births * 25 April - Fritz Eckert, architect (died 1920) * 14 December - Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland, prince (died 1854) * 13 June – Anna Whitlock, social reformer and women's rights activist (died 1930) * 23 May - Mathilda Grabow, opera singer (soprano) (died 1940) * 24 November - Helena Munktell, composer (died 1919) Deaths * 25 May - Charlotta Berger, writer (born 1784) * 18 June - Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland, composer (born 1827) * Aurora Wilhe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Munktell
Helena Mathilda Munktell (24 November 1852 – 10 September 1919) was a Swedish people, Swedish composer. Biography She was born at Grycksbo in Dalarna County, Sweden. She was the youngest of nine children of Henrik Munktell (1804–1861) and Christina Augusta Eggertz (1818-1889). Her mother lived separately in Stockholm and after her father died, the family moved there. Her sister Emma Josepha Sparre (1851–1913) was a painter. Munktell studied music at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Stockholm Conservatory with :sv:Conrad Nordqvist, Conrad Nordqvist, :sv:Johan Lindegren, Johan Lindegren, Ludwig Norman and :sv:Joseph Dente, Joseph Dente, and then in Vienna with Julius Epstein (pianist), Julius Epstein. She studied both piano and voice, and continued her education in composition in Paris with Benjamin Godard and Vincent d'Indy. Her debut as a composer took place in Sweden in 1885. In the late 1890s, Helena Munktell began to compose music for orchestra. In 1915 she beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1849 In Sweden
Events from the year 1849 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar I Events * 11 May - Uppsala Student Union * Fredrika Bremer travels to USA. * The Bourse (Gothenburg) is opened. * The second of the von Schwerin Estate's Scandals attracts attention. * The ''Nya smedjegården'' in Stockholm is transformed to a women's prison.Smedjegården in Nordisk familjebok (andra upplagan, 1917) Births * 13 January - Alfhild Agrell, writer and playwright (died 1923) * 22 January – August Strindberg, writer and playwright (died 1912) * 14 December - Wilhelmina Skogh, business person (died 1926) * 25 May - Louise Hammarström, chemist (died 1917) * 31 May - Carl Fredrik Hill, painter (died 1911) * 22 September – Olena Falkman, concert vocalist (died 1928) * 1 October – Anne Charlotte Leffler, writer and playwright (died 1892) * 7 October - Martina Bergman-Österberg, physical education instructor and women's suffrage advocate (died 1915) * 17 October – Johan Ericson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martina Bergman-Österberg
Martina Sofia Helena Bergman-Österberg (née Bergman; 7 October 1849 – 29 July 1915)Westrin, p. 194 was a Swedish-born physical education instructor and women's suffrage advocate who spent most of her working life in Britain. After studying gymnastics in Stockholm she moved to London, where she founded the first physical education instructor's college in England, to which she admitted women only. Bergman-Österberg pioneered teaching physical education as a full subject within the English school curriculum, with Swedish-style gymnastics (as opposed to the German model) at its core. She also advocated the wearing of gymslips by women playing sports, and played a pivotal role in the early development of netball. Bergman-Österberg was an advocate of women's emancipation, directly encouraging women to be active in sport and education, and also donating money to women's emancipation organisations in her native Sweden. Several of her students founded the Ling Association, which later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1840 In Sweden
Events from the year 1840 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Charles XIV John of Sweden, Charles XIV John Events * The Riksdag of 1840-1841 was a Liberalism, liberal breakthrough. A decision was taken to introduce primary education. * Prison cell jails is introduced. * Kockums Naval Solutions is founded. Arts and literature * ''Morianen, eller Holstein-Gottorpiska huset i Sverige'' by Magnus Jacob Crusenstolpe * ''Nyare dikter'' by Wilhelm von Braun * ''Samlade vitterhetsförsök'' by Ulrika Carolina Widström * ''Sara Widebeck'' by August Blanche Births * 7 February – Ida Göthilda Nilsson, sculptor (died 1920 in Sweden, 1920) * 13 June - Augusta Lundin, fashion designer (died 1919 in Sweden, 1919) * 18 October – Hjalmar Edgren, linguist (died 1903 in Sweden, 1903) * 8 December - Sofia Gumaelius, business person (died 1915 in Sweden, 1915) * 21 December - Hilda Lund, ballerina (died 1911 in Sweden, 1911) Deaths * Lolotte Forssberg, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusta Lundin
Augusta Lundin (13 June 1840 in Kristianstad – 20 February 1919) was a Swedish fashion designer. She is considered to be the first international Swedish fashion designer as well as the first well known fashion designer in Sweden. Early years and education Born to tailor Anders Lundin and Christina Andersdotter in Kristianstad, she learned the profession as a child, along with her sister, Hulda Lundin. Career She later moved to Stockholm, where she was employed at the Emma Hellgren hatshop in 1863–65 and the fashion studio of C L Flory & co in 1865–67. In 1867, she started her own fashion studio, and in 1874, she made her first study trip to Paris, and started her own fashion paper. Lundin made study trips to Paris once a year. She introduced the French method of making every part of a dress separately to Sweden. In 1886, she designed a "reformed costume", a loose dress without corset or bustle, on commission of the reform dress society, which desired a more healthy dres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
