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1872 In Sweden
Events from the year 1872 in Sweden Events * 27 February - Betty Pettersson is accepted as a student at the Uppsala university, and thereby becomes the first female university student in Sweden. * - Women are granted unlimited right to choose marriage partner without the need of any permission from her family, and arranged marriages are thereby banned (women of the nobility, however, are not granted the same right until 1882). * - Folk schools are given state support.Hadenius, Stig, Nilsson, Torbjörn & Åselius, Gunnar, Sveriges historia: vad varje svensk bör veta, Bonnier Alba, Stockholm, 1996 * - Linköping Central Station is completed Births * 14 January – Kerstin Hesselgren, Swedish politician (died 1962) * 28 April – Carl Bonde, army officer and equerry (died 1957) * 1 May – Hugo Alfvén, musician (died 1960) * 9 June – Henry Rines, Swedish-born Minnesota Republican politician (died 1950) * 26 September – Oscar Nygren, chief of the Swedish general staff from 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Pettersson
Betty Maria Carolina Pettersson (Visby 14 September 1838–7 February Stockholm 1885), was a Swedish teacher. She became the first official female university student in Sweden in 1871. She was also the first female student of Uppsala University, the first woman in Sweden to have graduated from a university, and the first woman to have been a teacher at a gymnasium. Life Betty Pettersson was born to the saddle maker Olof Pettersson and Magdalena Sofia Carolina Kullberg in Visby. She was not born into a wealthy family; however, when she was discovered to be a talented student, she was given the opportunity to study at a private girls' school in Visby, where normally only pupils from wealthy families were accepted. As an adult, she worked as a governess for several different families of nobility from the 1850s onward. By a reform in 1870, women were given the right to study at universities. Pettersson was accepted as a student the same year, though she did not begin her studies o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Parliament
The Riksdag (, ; also sv, riksdagen or ''Sveriges riksdag'' ) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members (), elected proportionally and serving, since 1994, fixed four-year terms. The 2022 Swedish general election is the most recent general election. The constitutional mandates of the Riksdag are enumerated in the ''Instrument of Government'' (), and its internal workings are specified in greater detail in the Riksdag Act ().Instrument of Government as of 2012. Retrieved on 16 November 2012. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1800 In Sweden
Events from the year 1800 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf Events * 14 August - Trollhätte Canal, later a part of the Göta Canal, is inaugurated. * '' Linnéska institutet'' is inaugurated. Bertil Boëthius, "Dalman, Johan Wilhelm", Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, vol. 10, pp. 83–93. Births * 10 January – Lars Levi Læstadius, religious reformer (died 1861) * 1 October – Peter Wieselgren, founder of the Swedish temperance movement (died 1877) * Helena Eldrup, educator (died 1872) Deaths * 21 May - Carl August Ehrensvärd, artist and architect (born 1745) * 29 May - Charlotte Slottsberg, ballerina (born 1760) * Julie Eckerman, courtesan and spy (born 1765) * Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie, courtier (born 1732) * Helena Maria Ehrenstråhle, poet (born 1760) * Margareta Sofia Lagerqvist, actress and singer (born 1771) * Eva Fundin, actress and dancer (born 1777 Events January–March * January 2 – American Revolut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Eldrup
Helena Eldrup (1800 in Karlshamn – 1872 in Gothenburg), was a Swedish educator. She was the first principal of the ''Kjellbergska flickskolan'' in Gothenburg from its foundation in 1835 until her death in 1872. Life Helena Eldrup was born to the sea captain Gabriel Mollén (d. 1802) and Anna Katarina Remner (d. 1834) and married in Gothenburg in 1821 to sea captain Niels Eldrup (d. 1837), with whom she had a daughter and a son. She lived with her husband in Chile in 1822–27, but separated from him in 1828, lived with her brother John in Great Britain in 1828–29, and returned to Sweden in 1829. Educational career She was for a time employed as a teacher at the ''Societetsskolan Societetsskolan i Göteborg för döttrar ('Society School for Daughters in Gothenburg') or simply ''Societetsskolan'' ('Society School'), was a Swedish girls' school managed by the congregation of the Moravian Church in Gothenburg from 1 November ...'' in Gothenburg, before being given the positio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Johan Hierta
Lars Johan Hierta (; 22 January 1801 – 20 November 1872) was a Swedish newspaper publisher, social critic, businessman and politician. He is best known as the founder of the newspaper ''Aftonbladet'' in 1830. Hierta was a leading agitator for political and social reform in Sweden during the 19th century. He is sometimes credited as the "father of the free press" in Sweden. Biography Hierta was born to a noble family – the Hierta family – in Uppsala, Sweden, as the son of Carl Didrik Hierta and Hedvig Johanna Schméer. He received his primary education at a private school and began his studies at Uppsala University in 1814, where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy and a Candidate of Law in 1821. In the same year he was employed as an unpaid trainee at the central government agency Bergskollegium, where he was promoted as a law clerk in 1825. In the mid-1820s, Hierta met Wilhelmina Fröding, his future wife. Although her family rejected his initial marriage proposal, they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1801 In Sweden
Events from the year 1801 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf Events * The Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy is occupied by Great Britain. * Carl Gustaf af Leopold publishes the '' Afhandling om svenska stafsättet'' * The Second League of Armed Neutrality, an alliance of Denmark–Norway, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia dissolves. * Foundation of the ''Djurgårdsteatern'' in Stockholm, the only theater except the Royal Dramatic Theater allowed to function in the capital during the 1798–1842 royal theater monopoly.Nordensvan, Georg. Svensk teater och svenska skådespelare från Gustav III till våra dagar; Första bandet, 1772-1842 (in Swedish) Births * 22 January – Lars Johan Hierta, newspaper publisher, social critic, businessman and politician (died 1872) * 1 February – Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer (died 1878) * 24 March – Immanuel Nobel, engineer, architect, inventor and industrialist (died 1872) * 9 May – Ulrika von Strussenfelt, writer (died 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Immanuel Nobel
Immanuel Nobel the Younger ( , ; 24 March 1801 – 3 September 1872) was a Swedish engineer, architect, inventor and industrialist. He was the inventor of the rotary lathe used in plywood manufacturing. He was a member of the Nobel family and the father of Robert Nobel, Ludvig Nobel, Alfred Nobel and Emil Oskar Nobel . In 1827 he married the children's mother, Andriette Ahlsell. He also often experimented with nitroglycerin with his sons, which led to his son Emil Oskar's death because of an explosion at his father's factory Heleneborg in Stockholm in 1864. Nobel moved to Russia from Sweden in 1838, to sell his inventions in Saint Petersburg, where he lived for two decades with his family. In Saint Petersburg he was attached to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Katarina along with other Swedes such as Johan Patrik Ljungström, with whom he may have collaborated. Among his successful creations was an improved version of an underwater exploding mine that personally inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1796 In Sweden
Events from the year 1796 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, Gustav IV Adolf Events * September - The King visits the Imperial court of Catherine the Great in Saint Petersburg in Russia to be engaged to Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia. He discontinues the plans when told that she will not be required to convert to Lutheranism. *16 October: The Church of Sweden Timrå Church is inaugurated. * 1 November - The King is declared of age and the guardian government of Charles XIII of Sweden, Duke Charles is dissolved. * - ''Norrköping jungfrustift'' is dissolved. * - Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences Births * 23 July – Franz Berwald, composer (died 1868 in Sweden, 1868) * 3 September – Henriette Widerberg, opera primadonna (died 1872 in Sweden, 1872) * - Anna Elisabeth Hartwick, lace industrialist (died 1882 in Sweden, 1882) Deaths * 17 March – Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, architect and civil servant (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henriette Widerberg
Henriette Sophie Widerberg (3 September 1796 – 3 April 1872) was a Swedish opera singer ( soprano) and memoirist. She was an elite member of the Royal Swedish Opera and its prima donna for over twenty years. She was appointed ''Hovsångare'' in 1837. She was the first woman in Sweden to publish her own memoirs during her own lifetime. Her book ''En Skådespelerskas Minnen: Sjelfbiografi'' (Memories of an Actress: an Autobiography) was published in two parts in 1850–51, and republished in 1924. Life Early life Henriette Widerberg was the daughter of the actor Andreas Widerberg and the actress Anna Catharina Widebäck. Her father was originally the star actor and later director of '' Comediehuset'' in Gothenburg, where her parents met and married the same night in 1787 of which they played onstage lovers. The family moved to Stockholm when her father was employed at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, where he became an elite actor and admired for his beauty and "male figure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1792 In Sweden
Events from the year 1792 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav III then Gustav IV Adolf Events * January - King Gustav III summon the Riksdag of the Estates to Gävle. * February - The Riksdag of the Estates is dissolved. * 16 March - Assassination of Gustav III: Gustav III of Sweden is assassinated by Jakob Johan Anckarström at a masked ball the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. * 29 March - Gustav III dies and are succeeded by his minor son, Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, under the guardianship of his uncle, Duke Charles. * The Funeral of Gustav III * 27 April – Jakob Johan Anckarström is executed for regicide in Stockholm. * July - Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm becomes a member of the guardian government and the de facto regent of Sweden. * 20 December – ''The Marriage of Figaro'' is given for the first time in Sweden at the Stenborg Theatre in Stockholm with Didrik Gabriel Björn and Eleonora Säfström.Johan Flodmark : Stenborgska skådebanorna (The Stenborg St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karolina Bock
Karolina Sofia Bock née ''Richter'' (August 28, 1792, Stockholm – 22 March 1872) was a Swedish stage actress. She was the principal and drama teacher of the Royal Dramatic Training Academy twice: from 1831 to 1834, and from 1841 to 1856. She was an elite actress of the Royal Dramatic Theatre.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 Karolina Richter was born to the hautboist Carl Johan Richter and Magdalena Sofia Rytting. She was a student of the Royal Dramatic Training Academy at the Royal Swedish Opera between 1806 and 1810. She was a student of Sofia Lovisa Gråå, and belonged to those female stage artists of her generation referred to as the "Grå Girls". Early life Karolina Bock was engaged at the ''Djurgårdsteatern'' and the ''Nya komiska teatern'' of Isak de Broen in 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valdemar Langlet
Valdemar Langlet (; December 17, 1872 in Lerbo, Sweden – October 16, 1960 in Stockholm) was a Swedish publisher, and an early Esperantist. With his wife Nina Borovko-Langlet in Budapest, he is credited with saving many Jews from the Holocaust, by providing Swedish documents saying that people were waiting for Swedish nationality. Raoul Wallenberg was inspired by Langlet and used the same method to save Jewish people when he came to Budapest. In 1965, Valdemar and Nina Langlet were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. Early life He was the son of architect Emil Victor Langlet and his wife author Clara Mathilda Ulrika Clementine Söderén (1832-1904). His brother included chemist Abraham Langlet (1868-1936). After his student years (in Germany, Austria and Switzerland) he worked as an engineer, and later journalist and editor of many Swedish newspapers (among others, '' Svensk Handelstidning'' and '' Svenska Dagbladet''. He wrote books about curren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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