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1817 In Sweden
Events from the year 1817 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIII Events * 16 February – '' Förlofningen'' by Dorothea Dunckel has its premier at the '' Aurora ordens teater''. * - The first suggestion to abolish the legal minority of adult unmarried women is discussed in the Riksdag.Ewert Wrangel : Svenska folket genom tiderna. 8. Karl Johans-tiden. (1938-1940) Runeberg * - Samuel Owen constructs the first Paddle steamer in Sweden. * - Gustaf Fredrik Wirsén inducted full member, and Justina Casagli, Elisabet Frösslind, Anna Sofia Sevelin and Jeanette Wässelius made associée of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. * - Filippo Taglioni appointed ballet master at the Royal Swedish Ballet. Births * 21 February – Fanny Westerdahl, stage actress (died 1873) * 24 March – Fritz von Dardel, artist (died 1901) * 10 July – Wilhelmina Bonde, courtier (died 1899) * 6 September - Helga de la Brache, impostor (died 1885) * 2 October - Gunnar Wennerberg * 6 Octo ... [...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] |
Fanny Westerdahl
Fanny Amalia Westerdahl or ''Fanny Hjortsberg'' (21 February 1817 – 27 March 1873) was a Swedish stage actress, ''Nordisk familjebok'', Volume 17. V – Väring, Projekt Runeberg (Runeberg.org), 2011, p. 689/690, webpage: RB349 ''Europas konstnärer'' (Europe's Art), Projekt Runeberg (Runeberg.org), July 2011, p. 629, webpage: active between 1829 and 1862. She is also known to have performed in some opera performances. She belonged to the elite actresses at the Royal Dramatic Theatre of mid-19th-century Sweden.Nordensvan, Georg, Svensk teater och svenska skådespelare från Gustav III till våra dagar. Förra delen, 1772–1842, Bonnier, Stockholm, 1917 Swedish theatre and Swedish actors from Gustav III to our days. First Book 1772–1842' Life Fanny Westerdahl was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on 21 February 1817. She was the daughter of a concert conductor at the ''Hovkapellet''. She was enrolled as a student at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy in 1828 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1754 In Sweden
Events from the year 1754 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Adolf Frederick Events * * * - Foundation of the Stenborg Company, the first known Swedish language theater group to tour Sweden and Finland. * - The cause célèbre of '' Risbadstugan''. * - New law on suicide: people who falsely admitted guilt or committed crimes with the intent of committing suicide through execution were to be punished by pillorying and imprisoned rather than executed.Ohlander, Ann-Sofie, Kärlek, död och frihet: historiska uppsatser om människovärde och livsvillkor i Sverige, Norstedt, Stockholm, 1985 Births * * 29 June - Peter Gustaf Tengmalm, naturalist (died 1803) * June 18 – Anna Maria Lenngren, writer, poet and social critic (died 1817) * 28 July - Abraham Niclas Edelcrantz, poet and inventor (died 1821) * 10 March - Augusta von Fersen courtier, royal mistress and profile of the Gustavian age (died 1846) * 4 December - Nils Lorens Sjöberg, officer and poet (died 1822) * - Carol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Maria Lenngren
Anna Maria Lenngren, née ''Malmstedt'' (June 18, 1754 – March 8, 1817), was one of the most famous poets in Swedish history. Her father and brother were also poets. One of her best-known poems is ''Några ord till min kära dotter, ifall jag hade någon'' ("Advice to my dear daughter, if I had one"). She also wrote on Sweden's class system in the satirical poems against snobbery ''Hans nåds morgonsömn'' ("His Grace's morning snooze") and ''Grevinnans besök'' ("The Countess's visit"). Life Early life Anna Maria Lenngren was born in Uppsala as the daughter of the poet Magnus Brynolf Malmstedt (1724–1798), a professor in Latin at Uppsala University, and Märta Johanna Florin (d. 1788). Her father was a member of the Moravian Church and was known for his social work; from 1772, he hosted a school for poor children in his home. Both her parents published hymns, and her brother Johan Magnus (1749–80) wrote secular poems. Anna Maria Lenngren became set against religion and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophia Wilkens
Sofia Charlotta Wilkens née ''Thomée'' (December 14, 1817 – March 22, 1889) was a Swedish pedagogue. She is counted as a pioneer in the education of students with intellectual disability, as well as deaf and mute students. She founded the Deaf and Mute Institute in Karlskrona, a combined orphanage, training school and working home for pupils with physical and intellectual disabilities, and was its manager from 1859–1877.Rören, Owe; , accessdate December 1, 2018 Background Sophia Wilkens was born in Kristianstad, Sweden. Her father, Per Thomée (1780–1843) was a county governor and government official. Her mother, Maria Juliana Wideman (1797–1826) died when Sophia was eight years old. She was raised by her maternal grandmother in Karlskrona. She was the cousin of Johan Henrik Thomander (1798–1865), Bishop of the Diocese of Lund and belonged to the social upper classes of Karlskrona, a notable city in Sweden in the mid-19th century. As was fashionable among upper-clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustaf Lagerbjelke
Count Gustaf Lagerbjelke (6 October 1817 – 6 March 1895) was a Swedish politician, the last Lord Marshal and the first Speaker of Första kammaren of the Riksdag. Biography Gustaf Lagerbjelke was born 6 October 1817 on Skeppsholmen, Stockholm to colonel count Axel Lagerbjelke and baroness Carolina Antoinetta Cederström. After his father's death in 1832, he became count. Lagerbjelke studied at Uppsala University, where he became Juris utriusque kandidat in December 1838. Between 1844 and 1866, he served in the Riksdag of the Estates for the Lagerbjelke family. From 1867, he was a member of Första kammaren of the Riksdag and its speaker 1867–76 and 1881–91. Between 27 April 1858 and 31 December 1888, he was Governor of Södermanland County. Lagerbjelke died on 6 March 1895 in Brännkyrka parish in Stockholm. Personal life Lagerbjelke married countess Sofia Albertina Snoilsky, daughter of commander count Gustaf Snoilsky and Ulrika Juliana Lode, in Stockholm on 5 Decemb ... [...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. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1885 In Sweden
Events from the year 1885 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Robert Themptander Events *10 December 1885 – Härnösand becomes the first town in Sweden with electric street lighting, following the Gådeå power station being taken into use. *Date unknown - The newspapers ''Borlänge Tidning'' and ''Social-Demokraten'' are founded. *Date unknown - Creation of the ''Wahlström & Widstrand'' *Date unknown - Women are allowed to become members of the Swedish Publicists' Association, and 14 women are inducted as members. *Date unknown - Johanna Hedén founded Göteborgs Barnmorskesällskap (The Gothenburg Midwifery Association), the first union for women in Sweden. *Date unknown - The governmental ''Girl School Committee of 1885'' is established to reform female education: Sophie Adlersparre and Hilda Caselli are two of the members, making them the first female members of a government committee. Births *13 January – Emil Johansson, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helga De La Brache
Helga de la Brache, née ''Aurora Florentina Magnusson'', (6 September 1817 in Stockholm – 11 January 1885 in Stockholm), was a Swedish con artist. She obtained a royal pension by convincing the authorities that she was the secret legitimate daughter of King Gustav IV of Sweden and Queen Frederica of Baden. Fraud The exiled Gustav IV and Frederica of Baden had divorced in 1812. News of Gustav IV and his family was banned in Sweden since his exile. Helga de la Brache claimed that the former king and queen had married again, secretly, "in a convent in Germany", which resulted in her birth in Lausanne in 1820. She was sent to Sweden to be raised by her alleged father's aunt, Princess Sophia Albertine of Sweden. When the Princess died in 1829, Helga was taken to the Vadstena asylum, so that she would be seen as insane, and her true identity kept a secret. She was released in 1834 and taken to her family in Baden, where she was placed under house arrest. In 1837, she read abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 In Sweden
Events from the year 1899 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Erik Gustaf Boström Events * 4–7 September - Kooperativa Förbundet is founded * The Bus is introduced in Stockholm * Åhléns * Aurora (newspaper) * Christian Workers Union of Sweden (1899) * Djurgårdens IF Fotboll * IFK Strängnäs * IFK Kristianstad * IFK Malmö Bandy * IFK Malmö Fotboll * Nässjö IF * Reymersholms IK * SoIK Hellas * Stockholm Music Museum * Svenska Fotbollpokalen * Swedish Sailors and Coalers Union * Swedish Workers Union * A delegation from the Fredrika Bremer Association presented a suggestion of women's suffrage to prime minister Erik Gustaf Boström. The delegation was headed by Agda Montelius, accompanied by Gertrud Adelborg, who had written the demand. This was the first time the Swedish women's movement themselves had officially presented a demand for suffrage.Barbro Hedwall (2011). Susanna Eriksson Lundqvist. red.. Vår rättmätiga plats. Om kvinno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelmina Bonde
Wilhelmina "Mina" Sofia Charlotta Bonde, née Lewenhaupt (10 July 1817 – 1899), was a Swedish countess and courtier. She served as överhovmästarinna to the Queen of Sweden, Louise of the Netherlands, from 1860 to 1869. She was also known as ''countess Minchen''. Life Wilhelmina Bonde was the daughter of the courtier count Klaes Lewenhaupt and Wilhemina Kristina Beck-Friis. She was introduced to court and served as ''hovfröken'' (maid of honor) to queen Josephine in 1844–1846. She married the ceremony master of the royal court, baron Carl Jedvard Bonde, in 1846, and settled into his residence in the capital during the winters and Ericsberg Castle during the summers. Bonde is described as a loyal royalist with an elegant and imposing manner, and had a leading role within the Swedish high society life. She exerted charity toward the tenants at her spouse's estate. In 1857, she was appointed to the post of senior lady-in-waiting or ''hovmästarinna'' to the new princess So ... [...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, Swedi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
