Axel ''''Peter'''' Gabriel Leijonhufvud also known as just Peter Leijonhufvud, (September 13, 1717 – June 19, 1789) was a

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military officer. Leijonhufvud was one of Crown prince Gustav's (III)

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, a civil servant and a lord marshal of

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.''Den introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor'',

Gustaf Elgenstierna Gustaf Magnus Elgenstierna (August 26, 1871 – March 21, 1948) was a Swedish historian and genealogist Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, histori ...

(1928), band IV, sidorna 553–554.

Biography

Leijonhufvud became a student in

Uppsala Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Located north of the c ...

in 1730, extra ordinary chancellor in the chancellery in 1734 and a volunteer at the Life Guards in 1737. He was promoted to master of armory in 1737,

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in 1738,

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in 1739,

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in 1741, and as such participated in the Russian War of (1741-1743). In 1744, Leijonhufvud became a

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in the

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County

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, where he became a

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in 1746. By change, he instead became a

at the Västerbottens regemente in 1752. Leijonhufvud was a

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1756–1762, was promoted in 1757 to

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and in 1763 to

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before his resignation in 1766. In 1757 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Sword.''Den introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor'',

(1928), band IV, sidorna 553–554. Leijonhuvud became court marshal in 1766 and was chief

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to Princess Sofia Albertina from 1767 to 1770. He was a lord marshal at the 1771/72 Parliament and in 1772 became a knight's house director. In the same year he became commander of the Order of the Polar Star and in 1775 president of the Turku Court of Appeal. Leijonhufvud became a member (number 1) and founder of the

Royal Swedish Academy of Music The Royal Swedish Academy of Music ( sv, Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien), founded in 1771 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden. At the time of its foundation, only one of its co-founder was a professional musician, Ferdin ...

in 1771 and was its first president. He became a member in 1753 (number 11) and an honorary member in 1786 of the Royal Swedish Academy of History and Antiquities.''Matrikel över ledamöter av Kungl. Vitterhetsakademien och Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets akademien'', Bengt Hildebrand (1753-1953), Margit Engström och Åke Lilliestam (1954-1990), Stockholm 1992 , sidan 19 Leijonhufvud has authored Tanke-val i dag evangelier, uti vers, published in 1790, the year after his death.

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1717 births 1789 deaths Swedish military officers

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Biography

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