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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] |
1851
Events January–March * January 11 – Hong Xiuquan officially begins the Taiping Rebellion. * January 15 – Christian Female College, modern-day Columbia College, receives its charter from the Missouri General Assembly. * January 23 – The flip of a coin, subsequently named Portland Penny, determines whether a new city in the Oregon Territory is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning. * January 28 – Northwestern University is founded in Illinois. * February 1 – ''Brandtaucher'', the oldest surviving submersible craft, sinks during acceptance trials in the German port of Kiel, but the designer, Wilhelm Bauer, and the two crew escape successfully. * February 6 – Black Thursday in Australia: Bushfires sweep across the state of Victoria, burning about a quarter of its area. * February 12 – Edward Hargraves claims to have found gold in Australia. * February 15 – In Boston, Massachusetts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knut Beckeman
Knut Wilhelm Malcolm Beckeman (13 October 1851 – 1943) was a Swedish architect. Beckeman was born in Halmstad, Sweden. He was a student at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg between 1868 and 1972. He then studied architecture at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen between 1978 and 1881. He started working for several architect firms in Stockholm, Uppsala Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inha ... and Gothenburg. He became city architect in Uppsala between 1884 and 1890. References External links Swedish architects 1851 births 1943 deaths People from Halmstad Chalmers University of Technology alumni Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni {{Sweden-architect-stub ... [...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] |
1781 In Sweden
Events from the year 1781 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav III Events * * 24 January - Tolerance Act (Sweden) * * * * - The French Theater of Gustav III is composed and inaugurated. * * - '' Min son på galejan'' by Jacob Wallenberg. * - '' Passionerna'' by Thomas Thorild. Births * * February 19 - Adolf Zethelius, silversmith, industrialist (died 1864) * 19 August - Margaretha Heijkenskjöld, traveler and dress reformer (died 1834) * * 26 September – Carl Fredrik af Wingård, politician and Lutheran clergyman (died 1851) * * - Anna Maria Thalén, Swedish fashion trader (died 1851) Deaths * * * * 21 December - Johan Henrik Scheffel, artist (born 1690) * 12 September - Catharina Ebba Horn, royal mistress (born 1720) 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 Swed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Maria Thalén
Anna Maria Thalén (1781-1851) was a Swedish fashion trader. She belonged to the leading in her profession in early 19th-century Stockholm and are mentioned in contemporary memoirs and diary literature. Anna Maria Thalén was married to the candle manufacturer Vilhelm Casper Thalén. She is referred to as "Fashion maker or Fashion trader", milliner and trader of accessories. Officially, she sold accessories and a number of fashion items such as shawls and feathers, repaired, remade and washed such items, and provided her clients with the names of seamstresses and other fashion workers with whom she worked. This profession was a result of the fact that seamstresses worked in a grey zone prior to '' the abolition of the guilds in 1846'' and formally only allowed to repair and remake old clothes so as not to intrude upon the taylors' guild privilege, while in practice, they were both tolerated by the authorities and favored by the clients. In the 1820s, Thalén reportedly managed o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustafva Lindskog
Gustafva "Stafva" Carolina Lindskog (1794-1851), was a Swedish athlete. She was a pioneer within the field of physical education of females in Sweden, and likely the first female teacher in physical education of her country. Lindskog was the great granddaughter of the merchant Gustaf Lindskog in Stockholm. In 1818, she was appointed instructor in the first class of physical education for females, as the head of the gymnastic for women at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Royal Central Gymnastics Institute. Formally, she was not referred to as an instructor and teacher but merely as replacement for the male teacher P H Ling and called "Movement Giver". It was in fact not until 1849 that she was formally given the title of ordinary teacher at the institute. This was one year after the first female, Greta Stina Bohm, had become a master of swimming, followed by the pioneer Nancy Edberg. Lindskog was the first female to be employed by the state as a teacher and instructor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1789 In Sweden
Events from the year 1789 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav III Events * 7 January – Johan Henrik Hästesko is arrested for involvement in the Anjala conspiracy. * January – King Gustav III summon the Riksdag of the Estates to Stockholm. * 21 February – King Gustav III has three of four estates pass to the Union and Security Act against the will of the nobility. * April - The Riksdag of the Estates is dissolved. * A group supported by Princess Charlotte, Princess Sophia Albertina, Prince Frederick Adolf of Sweden and Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm attempts to use the discontent among to nobility toward the war and the Union and Security Act to depose the King in favor of his brother Duke Charles, but fail. * May - The Supreme Court of Sweden is founded. * 12 May - Stjärnorp Castle burns down. * 13 June - Battle of Porrassalmi * 28 June - Battle of Uttismalm * 21 July - Battle of Parkumäki * 26 July - Battle of Öland (1789) * 24 August - First Battle of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Hård
Johanna Hård née ''Jungberg'' (3 December 1789 – 12 March 1851), was a Swedish pirate.Hundrade och en Göteborgskvinnor / Lisbeth Larsson (red). Arkiv i väst, 0283-4855 ; 22. Göteborg: Riksarkivet, Landsarkivet i Göteborg. 2018 Life She was the daughter of farmer tenant Sven Haraldsson Jungberg (1736-1830) and Anna Britta Nilsdotter (1761-1825) in Hisingen in Gothenburg. In 1813, she married bookkeeper Fredrik Hård (1776-1817). As a widow, she lived on Vrångö Island. She had difficulty supporting herself as a widow, and was once arrested for smuggling after having sailed to Copenhagen and sold textiles against the custom regulations. In 1822, she was put on trial after being accused of murdering her newborn child, but freed after an investigation proved the child to have been stillborn. In 1823, she was put on trial along with her servant Anders Andersson, boatswain Johan Andersson Flatås from Gothenburg (the spouse of her paternal aunt), fisher Christen Andersson, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1794 In Sweden
Events from the year 1794 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, Gustav IV Adolf Events * 27 March - Neutrality treaty between Sweden and Denmark to protect trade. * 15 May - The free port status of Marstrand, the only one in Sweden, is removed. * 1 November - The first semaphore line in Sweden. * 23 September - Magdalena Rudenschöld is pilloried in Stockholm for her part in the Armfelt Conspiracy. * - Anna Leonore König inducted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. * - ''Rätt eller alla samhällens eviga lag'' by Thomas Thorild * - ''Några ord till min kära dotter, ifall jag hade någon'' by Anna Maria Lenngren * 1 August - A new sumptuary law (the last sumptuary law in Sweden) introduced a number of restrictions, among them notably the ban of the use of coffee, an extremely unpopular law, as coffee had by then been an everyday habit for all classes for decades, official farewell parties are held for coffee the days be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustafva Björklund
Gustafva Björklund (1794–1862) was a Swedish cookery book-author and restaurant owner. Biography Björklund was originally from Finland, but moved to Sweden as a child, and worked as a domestic and waitress on several locations. In 1833, she was employed as a waitress at the Gentlemen's club '' Lilla Sällskapet'' in Stockholm, and when it was dissolved in 1840, she took it over and managed it herself until 1851, during which time it was one of the most popular restaurants for the capital's upper classes. After 1851, she managed more humble establishments, and supported herself by renting out rooms. In 1847, she published her cookery book ''Kokbok'', which became a success and was reprinted in several editions and was followed by additional works in cookery, such as the ''Kok-bok för tjenare och tarfliga hushåll'' (1851). She was referred to as an authority by others in the same field of knowledge in Sweden in the same century. Björklund was described as a beauty. She neve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1780 In Sweden
Events from the year 1780 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav III Events * * 8 June – Henrik af Trolle is appointed general admiral and chief of the Swedish naval fleet. * August – Sweden, Denmark-Norway and Russia conduct an alliance of neutrality against Great Britain's privateers. Births * * 3 April – Abraham Rydberg, shipowner and philanthropist (d. 1845) * 4 July – Sofia Hjärne, baroness (d. 1860) * 15 July – Emilie Petersen, philanthropist (d. 1859) * Bror Cederström, minister of war (d. 1877) * Anna Carlström, licensed brothel owner (d. 1850) Deaths * April 5 – Ulrika Strömfelt, Swedish courtier (b. 1724) * Martin Nürenbach, stage artist and theater director (year of birth unknown) References External links 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göran Wahlenberg
Georg (Göran) Wahlenberg (1 October 1780 – 22 March 1851) was a Sweden, Swedish natural history, naturalist. He was born in Filipstad Municipality, Kroppa, Värmland County. Wahlenberg matriculated at Uppsala University in 1792, received his doctorate in Medicine in 1806, was appointed ''botanices demonstrator'' in 1814, and professor of medicine and botany in 1829, succeeding Carl Peter Thunberg. He was the last holder of the undivided chair that in the previous century had been held by Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus. After his death in 1851, the chair was divided into more delimited professorships, and botany became the main duty of the borgströmian professorship, at the time held by Elias Fries. Wahlenberg made his main work in the field of plant geography and published, among other things the ''Flora lapponica'' (1812) and other works on the plant world of northernmost Sweden. He was among the first major scholars to contribute to the plant taxonomy and geography of the Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
