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1925 In Sweden
Events from the year 1925 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustaf V * Prime Minister – Hjalmar Branting, Rickard Sandler Events * 1 January – First day of radio broadcasting in Sweden: AB Radiotjänst (forerunner of Sveriges Radio) broadcasts its first programme. Gaston Borch conducts the Skandia Cinema Orchestra in the country's first broadcast of orchestral music. * 25 January – Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister because of ill health and is replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler. *5 April – The Swedish Bandy Association is founded in Stockholm out of the Swedish Football Association's former bandy section. Births * 4 February – Arne Åhman, triple jumper, Olympic champion in 1948. * 27 April – Folke Eriksson, water polo player (died 2008). * 2 May – Inga Gill, film actress (died 2000) * 10 May – Hasse Jeppson, footballer * 24 May – Mai Zetterling, film actress and director (died 1994) * 11 July – Nicol ... [...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] |
Mai Zetterling
Mai Elisabeth Zetterling (; 24 May 1925 – 17 March 1994) was a Swedish film director, novelist and actor. Early life Zetterling was born in Västerås, Sweden to a working class family. She started her career as an actor at the age of 17 at Dramaten, the Swedish national theatre, appearing in war-era films. Career Zetterling appeared in film and television productions spanning six decades from the 1940s to the 1990s. Her breakthrough came in the 1944 film ''Torment'' written for her by Ingmar Bergman, in which she played a controversial role as a tormented shopgirl. Shortly afterwards she moved to England and gained instant success there with her title role in Basil Dearden's '' Frieda'' (1947) playing opposite David Farrar. After a brief return to Sweden in which she worked with Bergman again in his film ''Music in Darkness'' (1948), she returned to Britain and starred in a number of UK films, playing against such leading men as Tyrone Power, Dirk Bogarde, Richard Widmark, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 In Sweden
Events from the year 1925 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustaf V * Prime Minister – Hjalmar Branting, Rickard Sandler Events * 1 January – First day of radio broadcasting in Sweden: AB Radiotjänst (forerunner of Sveriges Radio) broadcasts its first programme. Gaston Borch conducts the Skandia Cinema Orchestra in the country's first broadcast of orchestral music. * 25 January – Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister because of ill health and is replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler. *5 April – The Swedish Bandy Association is founded in Stockholm out of the Swedish Football Association's former bandy section. Births * 4 February – Arne Åhman, triple jumper, Olympic champion in 1948. * 27 April – Folke Eriksson, water polo player (died 2008). * 2 May – Inga Gill, film actress (died 2000) * 10 May – Hasse Jeppson, footballer * 24 May – Mai Zetterling, film actress and director (died 1994) * 11 July – Nicol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1851 In Sweden
Events from the year 1851 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar I Events * 11 June - The radical author Carl Jonas Love Almqvist fled to USA. * - The hospital Ersta diakoni is built in Stockholm by Maria Cederschiöld (deaconess) as the leader of the first deaconesses in Sweden.A Maria Cederschiöld, urn:sbl:14717, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av O. Centerwall.), hämtad 2015-03-10. * - Inauguration of the ''Södra Teatern'' in Stockholm. Births * 16 April – Ernst Josephson, painter (died 1906) * 10 August – Frigga Carlberg, suffragette (died 1925) * 13 October – Knut Beckeman, architect (died 1943) * 4 November – Märta Eketrä, courtier and royal favorite (died 1894) Deaths * 22 March - Göran Wahlenberg, naturalist (born 1780) * - Gustafva Björklund, cookery book-author and restaurant owner (born 1794) * - Johanna Hård, pirate (born 1789) * - Gustafva Lindskog, athlete (born 1794) * - Anna Maria Thalén, Swedish fashion trader (born 1781) Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frigga Carlberg
Frigga Carlberg, née Anna Fredrika Lundgren (10 August 1851 – 3 October 1925), was a Swedish writer, social worker, feminist and advocate for women's suffrage. She was a member of the central committee of the National Association for Women's Suffrage from 1903 to 1921 and chair of the Gothenburg branch of the Swedish Society for Woman Suffrage from 1902 to 1921. Biography Frigga Carlberg was born in the parish of Falkenberg in Halland County, Sweden. She was born into a wealthy family but had great difficulty to persuade her father to allow her to study. She moved to Gothenburg after her marriage to the post official Andreas Carlberg (1850–1921) in 1876. Carlberg engaged in women's issues and social work from her arrival in Gothenburg, and became an important member of the Gothenburg's Women's Association (), which was founded in 1884 as the first women's association in Gothenburg. She founded , an organisation who provided homes for healthy children to parents infected wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1866 In Sweden
Events from the year 1866 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XV Events * The Riksdag of the Estates is dissolved and replaced by the Riksdag. * General Industrial Exposition of Stockholm (1866) * The Governmental Girls' School Committee of 1866 recommend a number of reforms in women's rights, such as access to a number of professions, to make universities available to women, to regulate girl's high schools so as to prepare women for university studies, introduce Gymnasium (school) for women, and give government support to the girl schools which met with the demands. These recommendations are met within the next few years. * The title of Fröken (Miss), until then reserved for noblewomen, are permitted for all unmarried women, and the title ''Mamsell'' comes out of use. * In Gothenburg, Emanuella Carlbeck open the first institution for people with Intellectual disability in Sweden. * Emmy Rappe are sent to Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at St Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilia Broomé
Emilia Augusta Clementina Broomé, née ''Lothigius'' (13 January 1866 – 2 June 1925), was a Swedish politician (liberal), feminist and peace activist. She was the first woman in the Swedish legislative assembly (1914). Life Emilia Broomé was born on 13 October 1866 in Jönköping. raised in Jönköping, where she studied at the local girls school. She was given her professional degree at Wallinska skolan in 1883 and graduated in philosophy and medicine in Uppsala in 1884. She was thereafter employed as a teacher at the school of Anna Whitlock in Stockholm. She was the chairman of ''Stockholmsföreningen för kvinnans politiska rösträtt'' (The Stockholm Branch of the National Association for Women's Suffrage) from its foundation in 1902 until 1906. She was member of the board of directors of the (The Society for Social Welfare) in 1904–1925, and a member of the Stockholm Direction of Education. She was also chairman of the Peace union of the women of Sweden, from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvid Knöppel (sport Shooter)
Arvid Knöppel (7 March 1867 – 7 March 1925) was a Swedish sport shooter Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such as ... who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics. In 1908 he won the gold medal in the team single-shot running deer event. References 1867 births 1925 deaths Swedish male sport shooters Running target shooters Olympic shooters for Sweden Shooters at the 1908 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in shooting Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics Sport shooters from Stockholm 19th-century Swedish people 20th-century Swedish people {{Sweden-sportshooting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine and Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature. Since March 1901, it has been awarded annually (with some exceptions) to those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses". In accordance with Alfred Nobel's will, the recipient is selected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a five-member committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway. Since 2020 the prize is awarded in the University of Oslo Faculty of Law, Atrium of the University of Oslo, where it was also awarded 1947–1989; the Abel Prize is also awarded in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1837 In Sweden
Events from the year 1837 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Charles XIV John of Sweden, Charles XIV John Events * January - The Cause célèbre murder of Catharina Ulrika Hjort af Ornäs chock the country.Gustafsson, Marie & Bustad, Andreas, Historien om Catharina Ulrica Hiort af Ornäs: "det hemska dådet på Ramsnäsholm", Lilla Ornäs förlag, Borlänge, 2012 * - Kloka Anna i Vallåkra begin her career as a religious visionary. * - The first issue of the ''Nya Wermlands-Tidningen'' * - Albert Bonniers förlag is founded. * - Stor-Stina starts her exhibition tours. * - ''Grannarne'' by Fredrika Bremer Births * 19 May – Pontus Wikner, lecturer in philosophy and professor of aesthetics (died 1888 in Sweden, 1888) * 30 July – Signe Hebbe, opera singer (died 1925 in Sweden, 1925) * Johanna Hedén, midwife (died 1912 in Sweden, 1912) * Maria Andersson (businesswoman) (died 1922 in Sweden, 1922) Deaths * 3 January - Christina Rahm, opera singe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signe Hebbe
Signe Amanda Georgina Hebbe (30 July 1837 – 14 February, 1925) was a Swedish operatic soprano and instructor. Life Signe Hebbe was born in Värnamo to the journalist Vendela Hebbe and Clemens Hebbe. Education In 1848, at the age of eleven, she was enrolled at the school of the Royal Swedish Opera. She was a student of Karolina Bock and studied music at the Lindblad piano school. In 1852–1854, she was a student at the conservatory in Berlin. Signe Hebbe made her debut as an actress at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1855. She was not given good reviews in spoken drama, and therefore resumed her studies in singing. In 1856, she was enrolled as a student at the Paris conservatory. She was the first student from Scandinavia to be given an award at the Paris conservatory. She gave lessons in "plastic" (mimic) herself and, in 1860, came to act as the instructor of Sarah Bernhardt, when she replaced Bernhardt's ordinary teacher Élie during his absence. She developed her a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Lundquist
Kurt Anders Valdemar Lundquist (27 November 1925 – 12 July 2011) was a Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ... sprinter who won a bronze medal in the relay at the 1948 Olympics. Earlier in 1947, he won his only national title, in the 200 m. Competition record References 1925 births 2011 deaths Swedish male sprinters Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden Olympic athletes for Sweden Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics People from Sala Municipality Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Sportspeople from Västmanland County 20th-century Swedish people {{Sweden-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
