Carl Otto Nordensvan (7April 1851 – 30March 1924) was a

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general and military writer. He published 24 books dealing with aspects of Swedish military history and related topics. He additionally wrote many articles for the specialist periodical ''Krigsvetenskapsakademins tidskrift'' and the general periodical ''

Nordisk familjebok ''Nordisk familjebok'' (, "Nordic Family Book") is a Swedish encyclopedia that was published in print from between 1876 and 1993, and that is now fully available in digital form via Project Runeberg at Linköping University. Despite their consi ...

'', and was joint editor of ''Svensk militär tidskrift''.

Publications

*''Handbok för svenska arméns befäl'' 2 volumes, 1879-1880 (edited with Wilhelm Ernst von Krusenstjerna) ) *''Öfversigt af Rysslands härorganisation'' (1879) *''Taktiska uppgifter för hemarbete'' (1884) *''En vandring öfver slagfälten i Sachsen'' (1886) *''Värnplikten och inskrifningsväsendet'' (1887) *''Vapenslagens stridssätt'' (1891) *''Kriget och krigsinrättningarna'' (1893) *''Studier öfver Mainfälttåget 1866'' (1894) *''Fransk-tyska kriget 1870-1871'' (1895) *''Krigarlif'' (1896), illustrerad *
Finska kriget 1808-1809
' (1898) *''Nittonde århundradets militära tilldragelser'' (2 vols., 1899-1900) *''Värmlands regementes historia'' (ledare af arbetet 1903; ny upplaga av del II 1911), illustrated *''Svenska armén år 1908'' (1906), ett kontroversiellt inlägg i debatten om hur armén borde organiseras efter unionsupplösningen *''Krigföringen i dess olika former'' (1907) *''1808. Synpunkter och betraktelser'' (1908) *''Krigsmakten i Sverige 1860-1910'' (1911) *''Svenska armén sådan den är och sådan den kunde vara'' (1911) *''Utkast till organisation af svenska armén'' (1912), fortsättning av den föregående, som byggde på Einar af Wirséns ''Den svenska folkhären'' *
Nordisk familjebok
' (1913) selected articles *''Finlands dödskamp'' (1913) *''Det stora världskriget'', with

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 Hol ...

, (8 volumes, 1914-1919) *''Karl XII'' (1918), on

Karl XII Charles XII, sometimes Carl XII ( sv, Karl XII) or Carolus Rex (17 June 1682 – 30 November 1718 O.S.), was King of Sweden (including current Finland) from 1697 to 1718. He belonged to the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, a branch line of t ...

*''Världskriget 1914-18'' (1922) on

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*''August den starke'' (1923) *''På väg till Sveriges stormaktsvälde'' (1924)

References

1851 births 1924 deaths Swedish Army major generals Military personnel from Stockholm Swedish non-fiction writers Swedish military historians {{Sweden-mil-bio-stub