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Djursholm Cemetery
Djursholm () is one of four suburban districts in, and the seat of Danderyd Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. Djursholm is included in the multi-municipal Stockholm urban area. Djursholm is divided into a number of different areas: Djursholms Ekeby (northwest), Svalnäs (northeast), Ösby (central), Berga (southwest) and Gamla Djursholm ('Old Djursholm', southeast). It is also partly located in Täby Municipality. History Djursholm was one of the first suburban communities in Sweden, its history as such beginning in 1889 with the founding of Djursholm AB (Djursholm Inc.) by Henrik Palme and the subsequent 1890 inauguration of the railway line connecting Djursholm to Stockholm, Djursholmsbanan. Since 1895 it has been served by electric suburban trains but the original branch was closed in 1975. Djursholm is the wealthiest community in Sweden, with the most expensive property prices in the country. It was built as a garden city with large villas, most from the turn of the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djursholm Castle
Djursholm Castle (''Djursholms slott'') is a castle in Sweden. Djursholm is located in Danderyd Municipality, within Stockholm urban area. The castle includes building components from the late Middle Ages. It was the main building on the estate Djursholm, which was owned by the House of Banér from 1508 to 1813. Nils Eskilsson (Banér), who was lord of Djursholm 1508 to 1520, built a new palace at the place where Djursholm Castle remains. Djursholm Castle was the residence of both Privy Councillour Gustaf Banér and his son, Field Marshal Johan Banér. Svante Gustavsson Banér gave the castle its present appearance in the 17th century. By the mid 17th century the castle was its present size. The main hall was fitted at this time, with plaster ceilings, stairs castle was of limestone and oak, and walls hung with art wallpaper full of gilt leather (leather wallpaper) and other materials. In 1891, Djursholms secondary school (''Djursholms samskola'') was started in the buildi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villa Pauli, Djursholm
Villa Pauli is a villa and club located at Strandvägen 19 in the suburb of Djursholm and county of Stockholm, Sweden. It lies on the shore of the Stora Värtan some north of the centre of the city of Stockholm. The villa was built in 1907 by Anna Pauli, the daughter of , the wealthiest man in Sweden in the 19th century. He made a fortune in Latin America in the 1850s, co-founded the Enskilda Bank and founded Handelsbanken. He then funded Alfred Nobel’s Nitroglycerine Corporation and became its Chairman 1864-1904. Together with his young relative Ragnar Sohlman, he became instrumental in establishing the Nobel Foundation and the Nobel Prize based on Alfred’s testament. He also financed the establishment of the University of Stockholm. The villa, designed by famous architect Ragnar Östberg, was richly decorated with works by the painter Georg Pauli and sculptor Carl Eldh. It remained a private residence until 1968, when it was acquired by the Catholic Church for the purpos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Epidemiologist (Sweden)
The state epidemiologist, or the chief epidemiologist (plural: ''state epidemiologists'' or ''chief epidemiologists'', sv, statsepidemiolog) is a Swedish civil servant. The current state epidemiologist is Anders Tegnell, with Anders Wallensten as deputy state epidemiologist. Initially, the state epidemiologist was the head of the epidemiology department at the State Bacteriological Laboratory at the time of its establishment in 1955. In 1993, the post was transferred to the newly founded agency Institute for Communicable Disease Control. After the Institute was merged with Swedish National Institute of Public Health in 2014, the post became part of the new agency, the Public Health Agency of Sweden. List of Swedish state epidemiologists * 1956–1976: Bo Zetterberg * 1976–1993: Margareta Böttiger * 1995–2005: Johan Giesecke * 2005–2013: Annika Linde * 2013–present: Anders Tegnell See also * Healthcare in Sweden * COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden The COVID-19 pandem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annika Linde
Gerda Annika Linde (born 26 February 1948) is a Swedish physician, virologist and retired civil servant. From 2005 to 2013 she served as State Epidemiologist at the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control. Biography Linde was born in Skövde and grew up there. She was inspired by the novel ''Exodus'' by Leon Uris to study medicine. She enrolled at Gothenburg University in 1968, studying medicine and sociology, obtaining a medical degree in 1974. After her internship at Danderyd Hospital she went on to work as an infectious disease specialist at the presently defunct Roslagstull Hospital in Stockholm. In 1979 she started working at the virological department at the Swedish National Bacteriological Laboratory, and completed her PhD in Clinical Virology in 1987. In 1993 she became head of the Swedish influenza centre of the WHO and started working for Department of Virology at the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, where she in 2002 became department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annika Falkengren
Annika Falkengren ''née'' Bolin (born 1962) is a Swedish banker, one of Lombard Odier’s seven managing partners. She started her professional career in 1987 at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken where she ascended through the ranks to become its President and CEO in 2005, a position she occupied until 2017. Over her career she has held various Board Membership positions and received numerous awards, most notably being repeatedly ranked by Fortune Magazine as one of the most powerful women in Global Business. Early life and education Annika Falkengren was born on 12 April 1962 in Bangkok where her parents were stationed as diplomats for the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Being born into a diplomatic family, her initial years were characterized by frequent relocations. She returned to Sweden to pursue her studies at the Sigtunaskolan Humanistiska Läroverket Boarding School and following that continued her higher education at Stockholm University from where she graduated in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Tegnér
Alice Charlotta Tegnér (; 12 March 1864 – 26 May 1943; Sandström) was a Swedish music teacher, poet and composer. She is the foremost composer of Swedish children's songs during the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. Background Born Alice Charlotta Sandström in Karlshamn, Sweden, she was the daughter of Eduard Sandström (1829–1879), a ship captain. She was very musical and began taking piano lessons early. She attended seminars in Stockholm (''Högre lärarinneseminariet'') and trained as a teacher. After graduation, she served as governess. Alice Tegnér was a teacher at Djursholms samskola and cantor in Djursholms chapel where Natanael Beskow was a preacher. In 1885, she married Jakob Tegnér (1851–1926), a lawyer, and later secretary of the Swedish Publishers' Association and editor of ''Svenska Bokhandelstidningen''. Career Alice Tegnér wrote many well-known children's songs in Swedish, most notably ''Mors lilla Olle''. It was published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustaf Banér
Gustaf Banér (May 19, 1547 – March 20, 1600) was a Swedish noble, member of the Privy Council of Sweden. Life Gustaf Axelsson Banér was born at Djursholm Castle, the son of the Privy Counselor Axel Nilsson and Margareta Pedersdotter (Bielke). Gustaf Banér studied at the University of Rostock, took part in the insurgence against King Eric XIV and he was appointed member of the Privy Council in 1569 by King John III. He was implicated in the Mornay plot, but not investigated for it. He remained favoured by King John for a long time and was entrusted with several diplomatic missions, such as the royal election in Poland, in 1587, when King John's son Sigismund III was elected. He was stadtholder in Reval between 1588 and 1590, where there was a meeting in 1589 during which there was a rupture between Banér and the members of the privy council on the one side and King John III on the other. In 1592, when Sigismund III had succeeded John III as the king of Sweden, Banér init ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djursholms Samskola
Djursholms Samskola is the traditional name of a middle school in Djursholm, Sweden. The official name of the school today is '' Viktor Rydbergs Samskola''. History Djursholms Samskola was founded in 1891 as a private, co-educational institution, with premises in Djursholm Castle, in response to an expanding residential population. The writer Viktor Rydberg served as its first inspector. The school roll rapidly expanded until a new building was required. Architect Georg Alfred Nilsson (1871–1949), who had previously designed both the Matteus elementary school and Adolf Fredrik's Music School, was commissioned and designed a new building with an observatory and greenhouse. The schools early teachers included Alice Tegnér and Erik Axel Karlfeldt, after whom classrooms in the present school are named. Theologian Natanael Beskow also served during the 1890s as the headmaster and his wife Elsa Beskow was a class teacher. Modern provision In 2004 the school was taken over by the V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léonie Geisendorf
Léonie Geisendorf, née Kaplan (8 April 1914 – 17 March 2016), was a Polish-born, Swedish architect. She lived most of her professional life in Stockholm, Sweden. At the time of her death, she was living in Paris, France. Education and career Born in Łódź, Poland, she studied architecture at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich followed by an internship with Le Corbusier, who became a source of inspiration and a mentor. In 1938, after her internship, Geisendorf moved to Sweden and was hired by architects Sven Ivar Lind (1902-1980) and Paul Hedqvist (1895-1977). Counting as her first own work is a proposal for a new office building, drawn together with Ralph Erskine and Curt Laudon (1906-1964). In 1940, she married Swiss architect Charles-Edouard Geisendorf (1913-1985). In 1950 Geisendorf and her husband started their own architectural firm, L. & C. E. Geisendorf, in Stockholm with a branch in Zurich. Together they designed both private and public work. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Boberg
Gustaf Ferdinand Boberg (11 April 1860 – 7 May 1946) was a Swedish architect. Biography Boberg was born in Falun. He became one of the most productive and prominent architects of Stockholm around the turn of the 20th century. Among his most famous work is an electrical plant at Björns Trädgård in Stockholm, that was inspired by Middle Eastern architecture. The building was converted in the late nineties and is now the Stockholm Mosque. He also designed Nordiska Kompaniet, the most prominent department store in Stockholm and Rosenbad which today houses the Swedish government chancellery. After retiring as an architect in 1915, Boberg and his wife Anna traveled around Sweden with the aim of preserving the cultural heritage through a book of drawings. Over 3,000 sketches were made and around 1,000 drawings were published in the volume ''Svenska bilder'' (“Swedish Images”). Boberg died in Stockholm, aged 86. Famous works (In chronological order) * , Stockholm (1883 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mittag-Leffler Institute
The Mittag-Leffler Institute is a mathematical research institute located in Djursholm, a suburb of Stockholm. It invites scholars to participate in half-year programs in specialized mathematical subjects. The Institute is run by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on behalf of research societies representing all the Scandinavian countries. The Institute's main building was originally the residence of Gösta Mittag-Leffler, who donated it along with his extensive mathematics library. At his death in 1927, however, Mittag-Leffler's fortune was insufficient to set up an active research institute, which began operation only in 1969 under the leadership of Lennart Carleson. The journals '' Acta Mathematica'' and ''Arkiv för Matematik'' are published by the institute. For a number of years at the beginning of the 20th century, Mittag-Leffler's villa hosted a celebratory dinner for Nobel Prize laureates. Notable visitors Each year the institute invites the best mathematician i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prinsvillan, Djursholm
Prinsvillan (the Prince Villa) is a villa on Germaniavägen 14 A in Djursholm by architects Axel Viktor Forsberg and Gustaf Hermansson. It is situated in the Grotte quarter near Djursholm Castle and is also called Grottevillan or Grotte 7. The villa was initially built in 1905 by Forsberg, but was redesigned and expanded significantly during 1908–1909 by Hermansson in the jugend inspired country mansion style typical in Sweden at the turn of the 20th century. The villa was built for Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland (1889–1918), the youngest son of Gustaf V of Sweden, who suffered from epilepsy and lived a withdrawn life. It is, however, unclear when Prince Erik lived in the villa. The villa has been privately owned since the 1960s and was during the 1990s a residence for the South African embassy in Sweden. It has been given a preservation order as a building of national cultural interest. Sources * Fredric Bedoire, Svenska slott och herrgårdar, Albert Bonniers Förlag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
