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Gustaf Philip Creutz
Count Gustaf Philip Creutz (; 1 May 1731 in Anjala, Finland – 30 October 1785 in Stockholm), was a Swedish statesman, diplomat and poet. Biography Creutz was born in Finland and after concluding his studies at the Royal Academy of Turku he received a post in the Privy Council Chancery at Stockholm in 1751. Here he met Count Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg, with whom his name is indissolubly connected. They were closely allied with Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, and their works were published in common; to their own generation they seemed equal in fame, but posterity has given the palm of genius to Creutz. His greatest work is contained in the 1762 volume, the idyll of ''Atis och Camilla''; the exquisite little pastoral entitled ''Daphne'' was published at the same time, and Gyllenborg was the first to proclaim the supremacy of his friend. In 1763, Creutz practically closed his poetical career; he went to Spain as ambassador, and after three years to Paris in the same capacity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gustav III
Gustav III (29 March 1792), also called ''Gustavus III'', was King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792. He was the eldest son of King Adolf Frederick and Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden. Gustav was a vocal opponent of what he saw as the abuse of political privileges seized by the Swedish nobility, nobility since the death of King Charles XII of Sweden, Charles XII in the Great Northern War. Seizing power from the government in a coup d'état, called the Revolution of 1772, Swedish Revolution, in 1772, that ended the Age of Liberty, he initiated a campaign to restore a measure of royal autocracy. This was completed by the Union and Security Act of 1789, which swept away most of the powers exercised by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates, Riksdag of the estates during the Age of Liberty, but at the same time it opened up the government for all citizens, thereby breaking the privileges of the nobility. A believer in enlightened absolutism, Gustav spent considerable pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Members Of The Royal Swedish Academy Of Sciences
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a Club (organization), club or learned society See also * * {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ambassadors Of Sweden To Spain
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also used informally for people who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities, and fields of endeavor, such as sales. An ambassador is the ranking government representative stationed in a foreign capital or country. The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an embassy (which may include an official residence and an office, chancery, located together or separately, generally in the host nation's capital), whose territory, staff, and vehicles are generally afforded diplomatic immunity in the host country. Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, an ambass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gustavian Era People
The Gustavian style () is a Swedish furniture and interior design style that emerged in the late 18th century, primarily during the reign of King Gustav III of Sweden (1771–1792) and continued into the reign of his son, Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden. It is a Swedish variant of Neoclassicism in France, French Neoclassicism, influenced by the Louis XVI style and elements of Rococo. The style is marked by a return to classical ideals, with a focus on restrained decoration, symmetry, and proportion. The Gustavian style is often described as a reaction against the excesses of Rococo, seeking simplicity and elegance, while maintaining classical references. History The Gustavian style emerged during the reign of King Gustav III, who was instrumental in the development and dissemination of the style. After visiting Versailles in 1771, Gustav III became highly influenced by French Neoclassicism and sought to adopt elements of the Louis XVI style, but tailored to Swedish tastes and availa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Age Of Liberty People
Age or AGE may refer to: Time and its effects * Age, the amount of time someone has been alive or something has existed ** East Asian age reckoning, an Asian system of marking age starting at 1 * Ageing or aging, the process of becoming older ** Senescence, the gradual deterioration of biological function with age ** Human development (biology) * Periodization, the process of categorizing the past into discrete named blocks of time ** Ages of Man, the stages of human existence on the Earth according to Greek mythology and its subsequent Roman interpretation ** Prehistoric age Places * AGE, the IATA airport code for Wangerooge Airfield, in Lower Saxony, Germany People * Ã…ge, a given name * Aage, a given name * Agenore Incrocci, an Italian screenwriter Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * ''Ages'', worlds in the ''Myst'' video game series Music * "Age" (song), a song by Jim and Ingrid Croce Periodicals * ''Age'' (journal), a scientific journal on ageing, n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
1785 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 ** The Burmese Konbaung Dynasty annexes the Mrauk U Kingdom of Arakan. ** The first issue of the ''Daily Universal Register'', later known as ''The Times'', is published in London. * January 7 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a hydrogen gas balloon (aeronautics), balloon, becoming the first to cross the English Channel by air. * January 11 – Richard Henry Lee is elected as President of the U.S. Congress of the Confederation.''Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909'', ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p167 * January 20 – Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoà i Mút: Invading Thai people, Siamese forces, attempting to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River by the Tây SÆ¡n dynasty, Tây SÆ¡n. * January 27 – The University of Geor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
1731 Births
Events January–March * January 8 – An avalanche from the Skafjell mountain causes a massive wave in the Storfjorden fjord in Norway that sinks all boats that happen to be in the water at the time and kills people on both shores. * February 3 – A fire in Brussels at the Coudenberg Palace, at this time the home of the ruling Austrian Duchess of Brabant, destroys the building, including the state records stored therein. * February 16 – In China, the Emperor Yongzheng orders grain to be shipped from Hubei and Guangdong to the famine-stricken Shangzhou region of Shaanxi province. * February 20 – Louise Hippolyte becomes the second woman to serve as Princess of Monaco, the reigning monarch of the tiny European principality, ascending upon the death of her father Prince Antonio. She reigns only nine months before dying of smallpox on December 29. * March 16 – The Treaty of Vienna is signed between the Holy Roman Empire, Great Brita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Creutz Family
The Creutz family () is a Swedish noble family with the title '' friherre'' (roughly equivalent to baron) with its roots in Swedish-governed Finland. The family, both a branch of counts and a baronial branch, continues in Finland and Sweden. History The Creutz family is attested in sources from the late 15th century. They had their seat at the manor of Malmgård in , eastern |
Swedish Poets
This is a list of Swedish-language novelists, poets and other writers. __NOTOC__ A * Emmy Abrahamson (born 1976) * Alf Ahlberg (1892–1979) * Lars Ahlin (1915–1997) * Luai Ahmed (born 1993) * Astrid Ahnfelt (1876–1962) * John Ajvide Lindqvist (born 1968) * (1907–1968) * Sonja Åkesson (1926–1977) * Hans Alfredson (1931–2017) * Karin Alfredsson (born 1953) * Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793–1866) * Einar Askestad (born 1964) * Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790–1855) * Dan Andersson (1888–1920) * Lena Andersson (born 1970) * Johannes Anyuru (born 1979) * Britt Arenander (born 1941) * Werner Aspenström (1918–1997) * Majgull Axelsson (born 1947) B * Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795) * Victoria Benedictsson (1850–1888) * Frans G. Bengtsson (1894–1954) * Annie Bergman (1889–1987) * Bo Bergman (1869–1967) * Hjalmar Bergman (1883–1931) * Elisabeth Bergstrand-Poulsen (1887–1955) * Elsa Beskow (1874–1953) * Eva Billow (1902†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
