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1839 In Sweden
Events from the year 1839 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIV John Events * The revised edition of the radical novel ''Det går an'' by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, first published in 1822, is published * ''Liljeholmens Stearinfabriks AB'' * '' Stockholms Lyceum'' Births * 2 March - Victoria Bundsen, opera alto (died 1909) * 18 April - Lotten Edholm, composer and a pioneer within the Swedish Red Cross (died 1930) * 21 May - Nils Christoffer Dunér, astronomer (died 1914) * 24 August - Sofie Johannesdotter, serial killer (died 1876) * 2 November - Augusta Braunerhjelm, playwright (died 1929) * 30 December - Victor Hartman, actor (died 1898) * Charlotte Yhlen, doctor (died 1919) * Hulda Mellgren, industrialist (died 1918) Deaths * 7 February - Karl August Nicander, poet (born 1799) * 30 June - Johan Olof Wallin, minister, orator, poet and later Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala (born 1779) * Jacquette Löwenhielm, royal mistress (born 1797) * ... [...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] |
Augusta Braunerhjelm
Beata Fredrika ''Augusta'' Braunerhjelm (2 November 1839, in Edebo församling – 1929), was a Swedish playwright and writer. She was the daughter of chamberlain noble Samuel August Braunerhielm and countess Sofia Eleonora Fredrika Taube. She is most known for her comedy play ''Kusinerna'' (Cousins), which had its premier on the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm in 1870 and remained a success for several years. She was awarded the second prize of the Swedish Academy The Swedish Academy ( sv, Svenska Akademien), founded in 1786 by King Gustav III of Sweden, Gustav III, is one of the Swedish Royal Academies, Royal Academies of Sweden. Its 18 members, who are elected for life, comprise the highest Swedish lang ... for her tragedy ''Kåre'' in 1879. She was recommended for her descriptions of characters. Works * "Kusinerna", 1870 * "Hvem?", 1877 * "Bror Görans unga hustru", * "Blodshämden", femaktskådespel (1879) * "Kåre" * "Studier efter naturen. Teckningar från Itali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1797 In Sweden
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Events from the year 1797 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf Events * 31 October - The wedding between King Gustav IV Adolf and Frederica of Baden. Births * 4 July- Jacquette Löwenhielm, royal mistress (died 1839) * 15 July - Kloka Anna, cunning woman and medium (died 1860) * 10 September – Karl Gustaf Mosander, chemist (died 1858) * 28 September – Sophie von Knorring, writer (died 1848) * Anna Göransdotter, textile artist (died 1867) Deaths * - Christina Elisabeth Carowsky, painter (born 1745) * - Brita Sophia De la Gardie, actress and socialite (born 1713) References Years of the 18th century in Sweden 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacquette Löwenhielm
Gustava Charlotta ''Jacquette'' Aurora Gyldenstolpe (4 July 1797 – 7 January 1839, Constantinople) was a Swedish noble and lady-in-waiting. She is known as the mistress of Oscar I of Sweden in circa 1819-1827. Biography Jaquette was the daughter of Major General Nils Wexionius, Count Gyldenstolpe (1768-1844), and the salonist Charlotta Aurora De Geer. Jaquette Gyldenstolpe served as maid of honor to the queen, Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp prior to her marriage. On 18 September 1817, she married Lieutenant General Count Carl Gustaf Löwenhielm and moved with him to his estate in Värmland. The marriage was childless. Jaquette did not like the role of mistress at a country estate, and missed life at court. They moved back to the city when her spouse was appointed chamberlain to the Crown Prince in 1818. At the royal court, Jaquette became a center of the circle around the Crown Prince, alongside her mother, Gustaf Lagebjelke, Mariana Koskull and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1779 In Sweden
Events from the year 1779 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav III Events * Carl Wilhelm Scheele creates Glycerol. * The first theater in Gothenburg, ''Comediehuset'', is inaugurated.Wilhelm Berg: Anteckningar om Göteborgs äldre teatrar / Band 2. 1794-1816 (1896-1900) Births * 26 July - Erik Gustaf Göthe, sculptor (died 1838) * 20 August - Jöns Jacob Berzelius, chemist (died 1848) * 15 October - Johan Olof Wallin, orator, poet and archbishop (died 1839) * Charlotta Aurora De Geer, salonist (died 1834) * 16 December – Vilhelmina Gyldenstolpe, court official (died 1858) * Peter Westerstrøm, mass murderer (died 1809) Deaths * 16 November - Pehr Kalm, explorer (born 1716) * Henrika Juliana von Liewen, salonist (born 1709) * Jean François Beylon, courtier (born 1717 Events January–March * January 1 – Count Carl Gyllenborg, the Swedish ambassador to the Kingdom of Great Britain, is arrested in London over a plot to assist the Pretender to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Olof Wallin
Johan Olof Wallin, (15 October 1779 – 30 June 1839), was a Swedish minister, orator, poet and later Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden between 1837–1839. He is most remembered today for his hymns. Early life He was born in Stora Tuna in Dalarna (now part of Borlänge Municipality, Dalarna County) as the oldest son in a large family, and went to school in Falun. His parents did not have much money, but because he was a bright student he managed to enroll at the University of Uppsala in 1799. Four years later he obtained his Master of Arts, and after another three years he was ordained minister. While he was studying, his first poem was published in ''Upsala tidningar'' (1802). The following years he wrote and translated several other poetic works, and received several awards from the Swedish Academy for his work. Among his awarded works were translations of Horace and Virgil; and for a song about Gustav III he was awarded the high sum of 200 ducats. His poetry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1799 In Sweden
Events from the year 1799 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf Events * - Coffee is banned: due to the opposition, this unpopular law is abolished again in 1802.Svenska folkets underbara öden / VII. Gustaf III:s och Gustav IV Adolfs tid 1772-1809 * - '' Maximum seu archimetria'' by Thomas Thorild Births * 13 March - Maria Dorothea Dunckel, playwright (died 1878) * 22 March – Fredrik Vilhelm August Argelander * 24 March - Nils Almlöf, actor (died 1875) * 31 October - Maria Fredrica von Stedingk, composer (died 1868) * 9 November - Gustav, Prince of Vasa, prince (died 1877) * 11 December - Charlotte Thitz, educator (died 1889) * Helena Larsdotter Westerlund, educator (died 1865) Deaths * * 2 February - Dorothea Maria Lösch, war heroine (born 1730) * 11 March - Anna Lisa Jermen, entrepreneur (born 1770) * 25 May - Barbara Ekenberg, entrepreneur (born 1717) * Anna Elisabeth Baer, ship owner (born 1722) * Anna Maria Brandel, industrialist (born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl August Nicander
Karl August Nicander (20 March 1799 — 7 February 1839) was a Sweden, Swedish lyric poetry, lyric poet. (Swedish) Nordisk familjebok Bibliography *''Runesvärdet'' (1820) *''Fosterlandskänslan'' (1825) *''Dikter'' (1825) *''Dikter'' (1826) *''Markus Botzaris'' (1826) *''Tassos död'' (1826) *''Nya dikter'' (1827) *''Minnen från Södern'' (1831–1839) *''Hesperider'' (1838) *''Samlade dikter'' (1839–1841)References Swedish male poets Swedish male writers 1799 births 1839 deaths Burials at Maria Magdalena Church 19th-century Swedish poets 19th-century male writers {{Sweden-writer-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1918 In Sweden
Events from the year 1918 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustaf V * Prime Minister - Nils Edén Events * 14 March – Eva Andén is elected the first female member of the Swedish Bar Association. * 14 June - The Poor Care Regulation of 1918 replaces the Poor Care Regulation of 1871: it abolishes the poor houses, the ''Rotegång'', Poor Auctions, and other outdated poor care methods. * The forced registration and medical examination system of prostitutes is abolished. The '' Svenska Federationen'', having reached its goal, is therefore dissolved. Births * 16 January – Allan Ekelund, film producer (died 2009) * 17 May - Birgit Nilsson Märta Birgit Nilsson (17 May 1918 – 25 December 2005) was a celebrated Swedish dramatic soprano. Although she sang a wide répertoire of operatic and vocal works, Nilsson was best known for her performances in the operas of Richard Wagner a ..., operatic soprano (died 2005 in Sweden, 2005) * 14 July - Ingmar Bergman, director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hulda Mellgren
Hulda Mellgren (1839–1918) was a Swedish industrialist. She was the daughter of a Major Hansson. She married in 1858 to the tobacco industrialist Johan August Mellgren (1829–1877), with whom she had twelve children. She took over the ''Mellgrens Snus och Tobaksfabrik'' ('Mellgren Snus and Tobacco Factory') when she was widowed in 1877. She managed the firm assisted by her two brothers-in-law until she retired in favor of her sons Erik Olof Mellgren and Anders Valdemar Mellgren in 1900. During her tenure, the factory was one of the leading snus factories in Sweden. A street in Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ..., ''Hulda Mellgrens Gata'' (Hulda Mellgren Street) was named after her. Larsson, Lisbeth, Hundrade och en Göteborgskvinnor, Göteborg, 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 In The United States
Events from the year 1919 in the United States. Incumbents Federal Government * President: Woodrow Wilson ( D-New Jersey) * Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall ( D-Indiana) * Chief Justice: Edward Douglass White (Louisiana) * Speaker of the House of Representatives: Champ Clark ( D-Missouri) (until March 4), Frederick H. Gillett ( R-Massachusetts) (starting May 19) * Congress: 65th (until March 4), 66th (starting March 4) Events January * January 1 – Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company. *January 6 – Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, dies in his sleep at the age of 60. * January 15 – The Boston Molasses Disaster: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, killing 21 and injuring 150. * January 16 – The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition, goes into effect in the United States. *January 22 – The United States recogni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Yhlen
Charlotte Yhlen (later Olsen, 1839–1920), was the first female Sweden, Swedish physician. Charlotte Yhlen was the daughter of a shoemaker in Helsingborg. Her only education in Sweden was primary education. In Sweden, it was not yet permitted for females to study at universities when she emigrated to the United States in 1868. In America, however, she studied medicine at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, where she graduated as a physician in 1873. She thereby became the first Swedish woman to graduate as a physician from a university, though Karolina Widerström was the first woman to do so in Sweden. She returned to Sweden, where she applied to practice medicine, but her foreign degree was not accepted there. However, the universities was opened to women in Sweden in 1870, and she was accepted as a student at the Uppsala University, but she never started to study there. The same year, she was elected the first female delegate at the Nordic Science Conference in Cop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
