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1806 In Sweden
These are the collective events from the 18th century of the year 1806 in Sweden. Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf Events * 6 November - Swedish defeat at Lübeck in the Franco-Swedish War. * - The constructing of the Södertälje Canal begun. * - The Royal Swedish Opera and the Royal Swedish Ballet are closed down by the King and remain closed until 1809. * - The steam engine is introduced in Stockholm at the Eldkvarn gristmill.Andersson, Magnus (1997). Stockholms årsringar – En inblick i stadens framväxt (in Swedish). Stockholmia förlag. . * - Helena Ekblom becomes active as a preacher. Births * 22 January - Ludvig Manderström, Swedish - Norwegian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (died 1873) * 1 July - Clara Bonde, courtier (died 1899) * 14 August - Cecilia Fryxell, educator (died 1883) * 4 November - Anders Selinder, ballet master (died 1874) * Marie Kinnberg, photographer and painter (died 1858) Deaths * 22 August - Conrad Quensel, naturalist (b ... [...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] |
Cecilia Fryxell
Ulrica Cecilia Fryxell (14 August 1806 – 6 May 1883) was a Swedish educator and principal, regarded as a pioneer within the education of girls in Sweden. The girls' school in Sweden from the mid-19th century onward was influenced by her methods. Biography Fryxell was born in Kantenberg, Vassända-Naglum, in 1806. Her father was Gustaf Fryxell and mother Catharina Maria Liljegren and her grandfather Jöns Olof Fryxell. She was a relative of the poet and educator Anders Fryxell. Cecilia Fryxell early supported herself as a governess to wealthy families: first to the landowner L. M. Uggla at Svaneholms manor in Dalsland and thereafter to landowner and courtier Olof Nordenfeldt at Björneborg in Värmland south of Kristinehamn In 1843, she decided to become a missionary after a sermon held by Peter Fjellstedt. Fjellstedt arranged for her to be educated for missionary service at a missionary institute at Basel in Switzerland. However, she was considered unsuitable as a missionary fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1806 In Sweden
These are the collective events from the 18th century of the year 1806 in Sweden. Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf Events * 6 November - Swedish defeat at Lübeck in the Franco-Swedish War. * - The constructing of the Södertälje Canal begun. * - The Royal Swedish Opera and the Royal Swedish Ballet are closed down by the King and remain closed until 1809. * - The steam engine is introduced in Stockholm at the Eldkvarn gristmill.Andersson, Magnus (1997). Stockholms årsringar – En inblick i stadens framväxt (in Swedish). Stockholmia förlag. . * - Helena Ekblom becomes active as a preacher. Births * 22 January - Ludvig Manderström, Swedish - Norwegian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (died 1873) * 1 July - Clara Bonde, courtier (died 1899) * 14 August - Cecilia Fryxell, educator (died 1883) * 4 November - Anders Selinder, ballet master (died 1874) * Marie Kinnberg, photographer and painter (died 1858) Deaths * 22 August - Conrad Quensel, naturalist (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1742 In Sweden
Events from the year 1742 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Frederick I Events * Glass company Kosta Glasbruk (now known as Kosta Boda) is founded. * June - The Swedish province of Finland is occupied of the Empire of Russia during the Lesser Wrath. * 9 August - The Swedish forces in Finland surrender to the Russian army in Helsingfors. * Empress Elizabeth I of Russia states that Sweden may have Finland back if her candidate in the election for an heir to the Swedish throne, Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp, is accepted. * Proclamation of the Kingdom of Finland (1742) * The Hats (party) lose government power and are replaced by a government supported by the Caps (party). * Anders Celsius construct the Celsius thermometer. * '' Adelriks och Giöthildas äfwentyr'' by Jacob Henrik Mörk. Births * 28 July - Rutger Macklean, driving figure in the reorganization of agricultural lands (died 1816) * 3 October - Anders Jahan Retzius, scientist (died 1821) * Christina Krook, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Krook
Christina Krook (1742 – 1806) was a Finnish educator. She was the principal of a Finishing school for girls in Åbo, regarded as the most successful in Finland at the time. Life Christina Krook was the daughter of the official Gustav Krook (1704-1782), and Anna Christina Sund. She never married, and worked as a governess from 1765. In about 1782, she founded a boarding school in her home in Åbo. It was a typical school of its kind, with focus on accomplishments for girls expected to become wives and mothers and hostesses in high society. She and her sister Lovisa Juliana educated daughters from the rich merchant class and the nobility from the surrounding country side in the French language, etiquette, handicrafts, literature, drawing and dance.Aarniola, Sonja, Säädynmukaista opetusta. Mamsellit ja kotiopettajat säätyläisperheissä Turun seudulla 1700-luvun lopulla'', 2015 The school was successful in Åbo and Finland, where previously there had been no schools for girls, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1767 In Sweden
Events from the year 1767 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Adolf Frederick Events * - All spinning for both household needs as well as for selling is freely permitted in all Sweden.Du Rietz, Anita, Kvinnors entreprenörskap: under 400 år, 1. uppl., Dialogos, Stockholm, 2013 * - ''Tankar i anledning af Sista Öfwerflöds-Förordningen Och Dess wärkställighet; Fattade i pennan, och Dedicerade til MALCONTENTERNE, Af En Fri Svensk'', by Françoise Marguerite Janiçon Births * January - Catharina Ulrika Hjort af Ornäs, murder victim (died 1837) * 16 January - Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, chemist who discovered tantalum in 1802 (died 1813) * 1 February – Ulrika Melin, textile artist (died 1834) * * * * 10 December - Conrad Quensel, naturalist (died 1806) * 10 December - Fredrik Gyllenborg, Prime Minister of Sweden (died 1829) Deaths * * * 9 May - Jean Fredman, role model of the ''Songs of Fredman'' (born 1712) * * Lisbetta Isacsdotter, religious leader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Quensel
Conrad Quensel (10 December 1767 – 22 August 1806) was a Swedish naturalist. Biography Quensel was born at Åsbo in Skåne, Sweden. He was the son of Jakob Quensel (1724-1802) and Ulrika Benedikta Billberg (1739-1806). His father was a rector at Malmö and later senior clerk in the parish of Ausås. He was named after his grandfather, noted astronomer Conrad Quensel (1676-1732). In 1789, Quensel became a student at the University of Lund and gained his Magisterexamen in philosophy in 1787. In 1789 he undertook a study trip to Lappland, where he described several new species of insects. Starting from 1791, he was an employee of the Botanic Garden at the University of Uppsala. In 1797 he became a Doctor of Medicine and after 1798 he became Director of the Natural Cabinet ('' Naturkabinetts'') at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Later he became a chemistry and natural history teacher at the Military Academy Karlberg, where he received in 1805 the title of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1858 In Sweden
Events from the year 1858 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar I Events * - The Conventicle Act (Sweden) is removed and the free churches are legalized. * - Establishment of the Geological Survey of Sweden * - Gothenburg Central Station is inaugurated. * - Statistics Sweden is created. * - Inauguration of '' Vänortsparken'' * - Legal majority for unmarried women (if applied for; automatic legal majority in 1863). * - Louise Flodin starts her own news paper in Arboga, staffed exclusively by women. * - The formal right of an employer to physically discipline their adult servants is abolished. Births * 28 February - Tore Svennberg, actor (died 1941) * 3 June - Alina Jägerstedt, union worker (died 1919) * 24 October - Ebba Bernadotte, philanthropist and morganatic consort (died 1926) * 20 November - Selma Lagerlöf, writer (died 1940) * 18 December - Kata Dalström, political agitator (died 1923) Deaths * 30 March - Marie Kinnberg, photographer and painter (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Kinnberg
Marie Kinnberg (1806–30 March 1858) was a pioneering Swedish photographer and painter. In 1851, she learnt how to operate the daguerreotype process and the following year opened a studio in Gothenburg. Active as a portrait painter, Marie Kinnberg was a student of Bernhard Bendixen and Adolf Meyer, two photographers from Germany, who introduced the then new photographic technique with pictures on paper in Sweden, and gave lessons in this technique during their stay in Gothenburg in the summer of 1851. Marie Kinnberg thus belonged to the pioneers of the new photographic technique in Sweden when she opened her own professional studio in Gothenburg on 8 May 1852. Her study did not last many years, but she was a pioneer both as one of the first to use the new photographic art in Sweden, as well as one of the first women of her profession alongside Brita Sofia Hesselius Brita Sofia Hesselius (1801–1866) was a Swedish daguerreotype photographer. She was likely the first profes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1874 In Sweden
Events from the year 1874 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II Events * 27 April – Hildegard Björck becomes the first Swedish woman to complete an academic degree. * In accordance with the recommendations of the progressive Girls' School Committee of 1866, girls' schools which meet the demands are given governmental support. * In accordance with the Girls' School Committee of 1866, Wallinska skolan becomes the first girls' school permitted to administer the ''studentexamen'' for its students. * Married women granted control over their own income. * The inauguration of the Grand Hôtel (Stockholm). * Foundation of the Långholmen Prison * Maria Stenkula opens the '' Malmö högre läroverk för flickor'' * Establishment of the '' Prästerskapets Änke- och Pupillkassa'', a retirement fund for widows of priests. * Foundation of the Swedish Publicists' Association. * Foundation of the Friends of Handicraft. Births * 11 February – Elsa Beskow, author and illustrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Selinder
Anders Selinder (4 November 1806, Stockholm – 6 November 1874, Stockholm), was a Swedish ballet dancer, choreographer and director. He was Ballet master of the Royal Swedish Ballet in 1833–1856. Life Anders Selinder was the son of the jeweler A. Selinder in Stockholm. Selinder premier dancer at the Royal ballet in the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm in 1829-46. In 1833, he was appointed ballet master at the age of twenty seven. He succeeded Per Erik Wallqvist, and worked closely to Sophie Daguin, who had previously shared the position of ballet master with Wallqvist and was principal of the Opera's ballet school. Together, Selinder and Daguin are considered to have upheld a high standard of the ballet. Anders Selinder has been referred to as one of the most noted ballet masters of the royal ballet. During this time, there was a new interest for the old Folk dance, which were at that time disappearing. Selinder preserved the folk dance by making them into ballets. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1883 In Sweden
Events from the year 1883 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Arvid Posse, Carl Johan Thyselius Events * 13 June - Carl Johan Thyselius assumed the position of Prime Minister. * 3 August: Amusement park Gröna Lund on the island of Djurgården in Stockholm is inaugurated. * - Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society is founded. * - Ellen Fries becomes the first female Ph.D. * - Katarina Elevator * - ''IS Lyckans Soldater'' * - Stockholm University Student Union * - Swedish Chemical Society is founded. Births * 17 November – Erik Granfelt, gymnast (died 1962). * 6 December – Anders Hylander, gymnast (died 1967). * 23 December – Hjalmar Cedercrona, gymnast (died 1969). Deaths * 6 March - Cecilia Fryxell, educator (born 1806 Events January–March * January 1 ** The French Republican Calendar is abolished. ** The Kingdom of Bavaria is established by Napoleon. * January 5 – The body of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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