Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm (17051769) was a ''

Freiherr (; male, abbreviated as ), (; his wife, abbreviated as , literally "free lord" or "free lady") and (, his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empir ...

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(''kammarherre'') in

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. His father was the royal adviser (''riksråd'') Josias Cederhielm, and his mother was Anna Åkerhielm. Cederhielm is perhaps best remembered today as a founding member of the

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( sv, Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special responsibility for prom ...

, which was founded 1739.Vetenskapsakademin
in ''Nordisk familjebok'' (2nd edition, 1921)

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Swedish nobility Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1705 births 1769 deaths {{Europe-noble-stub