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Odenberg
Odenberg is a Swedish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Christina Odenberg (born 1940), Swedish bishop * Mikael Odenberg (born 1953), Swedish politician See also * Oldenberg Oldenberg is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Claes Oldenberg (1929–2022), American sculptor *Henry Oldenburg (c. 1619–1677) German theologian, diplomat, natural philosopher, First Secretary of the Royal Society. *He ... {{surname Swedish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikael Odenberg
Mikael Ingemarsson Odenberg (born 14 December 1953) is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. He was a Member of Parliament from 1991 to 2006 and Minister for Defence in the Swedish government from 2006 to 2007. From 1 March 2008 to 28 February 2017 he was the director-general of Svenska kraftnät. Education and military service Mikael Odenberg performed his military service in the Coastal Artillery at the KA 4 training regiment in Gothenburg from 1973 to 1974. He finished with good grades and went through Reserve Officer Training in 1976. He also finished a management course at the Swedish National Defence College in 1994. As a Second Lieutenant he was trained at the Söderarm battery in the Roslagen archipelago, outside Stockholm. Odenberg today formally holds the rank of Major. From 1975 to 1976 Odenburg studied economics at Stockholm University and from 1976 to 1978 he studied at the Stockholm School of Economics. Political career From 1972 to 1973, Odenberg was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Odenberg
Christina Odenberg (born 26 March 1940) is the retired bishop of the Diocese of Lund in Sweden between 1997 and 2007. Biography Christina Odenberg is the daughter of Ingemar Odenberg and Kerstin, born Moberg. Odenberg was for some time politically active in the Moderate party and her brother Mikael Odenberg was Sweden's Minister for Defence 2006–2007. She was ordained in Stockholm on 17 December 1967. She served as a priest in Östergötland county first as an assistant vicar in Östra Ryd then as vicar in Österåker-Östra Ryd. 1990 she became deneary in Roslags kontrakt. When the then bishop of the Diocese of Lund K. G. Hammar was made archbishop of Uppsala Odenberg was appointed as his successor on 5 June 1997, and was ordained bishop on 5 October the same year. This made her the first woman to become a bishop in the history of the Church of Sweden. On 27 December 2001 she caused a lot of attention and from some circles outrage when she in a sermon called "the gift of Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Name
In Sweden, a person must have a surname and one or more given names. Two given names are common. Surnames are inherited from the parents, in the order of "same as elder sibling, if any; specified by parents; or mother's last name," while given names must be chosen by the parents at birth. The calling name (Swedish ''tilltalsnamn'', French ''Prénom usuel'') by which the person is normally identified in conversation, is in Scandinavian countries (and previously in France) one of the given names, not necessarily the first. In contexts where the full name is spelled out, the calling name is often indicated by an asterisk, by capital letters, or underlines or italics. For example, Märta Birgit* Nilsson is known as Birgit Nilsson, while Björn* Kristian Ulvaeus is known as Björn Ulvaeus. Transition from patronymic to surname In Scandinavia, surnames proper did not exist until the later middle ages. Instead, patronymics were used. In Sweden, the patronymic endings are and , e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oldenberg
Oldenberg is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Claes Oldenberg (1929–2022), American sculptor *Henry Oldenburg (c. 1619–1677) German theologian, diplomat, natural philosopher, First Secretary of the Royal Society. *Hermann Oldenberg (1854–1920), German scholar of Indology (the study of the Indian subcontinent) *Lorenz Oldenberg (1863–1931), German entomologist Other uses * Oldenberg Brewery, a defunct brewery and pub in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, part of a Greater Cincinnati The Cincinnati metropolitan area and also known as the Cincinnati Tri-State area, or Greater Cincinnati) is a metropolitan area centered on Cincinnati and including surrounding counties in the U.S. states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. The area i ... tourist expansion. See also * Oldenburg (other) References {{Reflist German-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
