Bengt Edvard ''Sixten'' "Sigge" Sparre af Rossvik (September 27, 1854 – July 19, 1889) was a
Swedish
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nobleman,
lieutenant
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, cavalry officer, journalist, poet, mostly known for the murder of circus performer
Elvira Madigan
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in a
murder-suicide act. Their story has since been subject to several theatrical and cinematic productions, such as that ''
Elvira Madigan
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'' of
Bo Widerberg
Bo Gunnar Widerberg (; 8 June 1930 – 1 May 1997) was a Sweden, Swedish film director, screenwriter, writer, film editing, editor and actor.
Biography Early life
Widerberg was born in Malmö, Malmöhus County, Sweden.
Career
Widerberg was th ...
in 1967 (played by
Thommy Berggren
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) and a Danish film (
Søren Svejstrup
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).
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Early life
Sparre af Rossvik was born on 27 September 1854 in Malmö
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, Sweden
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, the son of Sigge Rossvik and Adelaide Peijron.
Personal life
In 1880, he married Countess Luitgard "Lycka" Adlercreutz
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Overview
Its oldest known ancestor is Swedish speaking Finn, Erik Markusson, dead 1654, who was a farmer in Biskops, Iso-Teutari, Lohja, Uusimaa, Finland. His son Tomas Erikss ...
.
Sparre and Madigan were both buried at Tåsinge
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graveyard.
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External links
Sparre's collection of poems
1854 births
1889 deaths
Swedish military personnel who committed suicide
Suicides by firearm in Denmark
Swedish nobility
19th-century Swedish journalists
19th-century Swedish poets
19th-century Swedish military personnel
Writers from Malmö
Sixten
Murder–suicides in Europe
1880s suicides
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