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Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna (1583-1654), Chancellor of Sweden, was born at Fond in Uplandia, and was educated with his brothers at the universities of Rostock, Jena and Wittenberg.
Oxenstierna was appointed a member of Gustavus Adolphus's council of regency.
Oxenstierna was opposed at first to the abdication of Christina, because he feared mischief to Sweden from the unruly and adventurous disposition of her appointed successor, Charles Gustavus.
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 Axel Oxenstierna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna (♫) (June 16, 1583 August 28, 1654), Lord High Chancellor of Sweden, was born at Fånö in Uplandia, and received his education with his brothers at the universities of Rostock, Jena and Wittenberg.
Oxenstierna became a member of Gustavus Adolphus's council of regency (1611).
After the Battle of Breitenfeld on September 7, 1631 Oxenstierna received a summons to assist the king with his counsels and co-operation in Germany.
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 Oxenstierna, Count Axel Gustafsson on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Oxenstierna also organized the conquered territories, skillfully managed financial affairs, and aided Gustavus's wars by his diplomacy.
Clashes between Oxenstierna and the young queen led to the decline of his power.
Oxenstierna opposed the abdication of Christina in 1654, but for the short remainder of his life he served Charles X well in attempts to rehabilitate Sweden financially.
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 Axel Oxenstierna biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He conducted with marked discretion the settlement of certain disputes between the Livonian nobles and the town of Reval, and was appointed guardian of the royal family and head of the regency when Charles became incapacitated.
After the severe defeat of the Swedes at Nördlingen in 1634 Oxenstierna transferred the leadership of the Protestant forces to Duke Bernhard of Weimar and proceeded, in 1635, to France and Holland, to obtain aid against the Imperialists.
Returning to Germany, he assisted in quelling a mutiny among the Swedish troops at Magdeburg, put Pomerania in a state of defense to resist the expected attack of the Elector of Brandenburg, renewed the treaty with Poland, and, leaving Banér in command of the Swedes, returned to Stockholm in 1636.
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 Axel Oxenstierna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Axel Oxenstierna was born in 1583 and died in 1654.
Oxenstierna was Gustavus Adolphus’ most senior nobleman and they formed a formidable partnership together in advancing Sweden’s power in the Baltic.
Oxenstierna believed that her approach might push Sweden towards absolute monarchical rule and that a breakdown in trust would occur.
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Oxenstierna, Axel Gustafsson, Count (1583-1654), Swedish statesman, who played an important part in the Thirty Years' War.
The son of Charles IX, Gustav was born on December 9, 1594, in Stockholm.
At the beginning of his reign, Sweden was at war with Russia, but in 1617 Gustav ended the conflict with a treaty by which Sweden obtained eastern...
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Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna or Oxenstjerna (June 16, 1583 - August 28, 1654), Lord High Chancellor of Sweden, was born at Fånö in Uplandia, and received his education with his brothers at the universities of Rostock, Jena and Wittenberg.
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 Read about Axel Oxenstierna at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Axel Oxenstierna and learn about Axel Oxenstierna ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
limited monarchy ever remained his ideal government, but the genius of the young king demanded no fetters, so Oxenstierna remained content to serve as the colleague instead of the master of his sovereign.
Congress of Frankfurt in March 1634, held for the purpose of uniting all the German Protestants, Oxenstierna appeared in a carriage drawn by six horses, with German princes attending him on foot.
But from first to last his policy suffered from the slenderness of Sweden's material resources, a cardinal defect which all his craft and tact could not altogether conceal from the vigilance of her enemies.
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 Oxenstierna Count Axel Gustafsson: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
...His first act and one of his wisest was to make Axel Oxenstierna, a young man of twenty-eight, his prime minister...worked together for Swedens welfare and glory, and Oxenstierna carried on the work for twenty-two years after Gustavuss...
Axel Oxenstierna, the Swedish Chancellor, became...received by Per Brahe and Axel Oxenstierna.
Oxenstierna also organized the conquered territories...Gustavus II at Lutzen, the diet granted Oxenstierna full control of Swedish affairs...
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 Business Software Review : Article 'Axel Oxenstierna'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna Template:Audio or Oxenstjerna (June 16, 1583 - August 28, 1654), Lord High Chancellor of Sweden, was born at Fýný in Uplandia, and received his education with his brothers at the universities of Rostock, Jena and Wittenberg.
Count Johan Axelsson Oxenstierna (1611-1657), Swedish statesman, son of Axel Oxenstierna, completed his studies at Uppsala in 1631, and was sent by his father on a grand tour through France, the Netherlands and Great Britain.
Blommaert's letters to the Swedish chancellor, Count Axel Oxenstierna, from 1635-1641 and thirty-eight in number, are of great importance to the history of New Sweden, and were published in the Bijdragen en Mededeelingen of the Utrecht Historical Society, vol.
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Axel Olrik (1864-1917) was a Danish folklorist, a pioneer in the methodical study of oral narrative.
Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe (October 31, 1857 - February 11, 1949) was a Swedish doctor, better known as the author of ''The Story of San Michele'' (1929), an autobiographical account of his work and later life.
Axel Lille (1848 - 1921) was a Finnish politician of Finland-Swedish extraction and the founder of the Swedish People's Party.
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 - Chapter 5
Partly because its vividness, against the backdrop of the drab new factories and workshops, served to accentuate the awkward fact that these cursed Committees of Correspondence almost invariably found a receptive audience among the new class of workmen which was rapidly arising in central Germany.
Oxenstierna's eyes moved back to the young political radical at the table, and, for the first time, Gustav saw something beyond blank incomprehension and veiled disdain in that gaze.
Axel looked like he might be on the verge of apoplexy.
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 Swedish History - Axel Oxtenstierna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Except for Oxenstierna's great knowledge, a contributory cause was that he was the leading member of the Swedish council of state.
Oxenstierna had studied at Rostock and other German universities.
Oxenstierna was a great administrative reformer, too, both the local and central governments were reorganised.
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 AllRefer.com - Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna (Scandinavian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna[Ak´sul goos´tAfsun uk´sunsher´´nA] Pronunciation Key, 1583–1654, Swedish statesman.
After the death (1632) of Gustavus II at LUtzen, the diet granted Oxenstierna full control of Swedish affairs in Germany.
The Swedish defeat at NOrdlingen (1634) forced Oxenstierna to solicit direct assistance from France.
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 Additional Reading (from Oxenstierna, Axel, Greve) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Wilhelm Tham, Axel Oxenstierna: Hans ungdom och verksamhet intill år 1612 (1935), is indispensable for the early years.
Oxenstierna's enormous correspondence has been in course of publication since 1888.
The popular Swedish poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt wrote regional, tradition-bound verse influenced by the peasant culture of his rural homeland.
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 Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna, Count Biography / Biography of Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna, Count Biography Biography
The Swedish statesman Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna (1583-1654) was a major architect of his country's brief rise to greatness among the powers of 17th-century Europe.
Axel Oxenstierna was born at Uppsala on June 16, 1583.
He received his first appointment in 1605; by the decade's end he was the leader of the nobility in the Royal Council.
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 axel gustafsson oxenstierna - OneLook Dictionary Search
Oxenstierna, Axel Gustafsson : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
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 The Works and Correspondence of Axel Oxenstierna
Fifty-one letters from John George to AO are extant from 1633 to 1635 in the Oxenstierna collection.
Maurice (1567-1625), Count of Nassau, Prince of Orange (from 1618), Stadholder of Holland and Zeeland (from 1585), etc. Two letters from Maurice to AO from 1615 and 1624 are extant in the Oxenstierna collection.
Nine letters from Charles I to AO from 1629 to 1636 are extant in the Oxenstierna collection.
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 World of Quotes - Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna Quotes.
World of Quotes - Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna Quotes.
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Count Axel Oxenstierna: Biography of Count Axel Oxenstierna
Swedish statesman, was made chancellor by Gustavus Adolphus in 1611.
Acted as regent throughout the minority of Christina, and became her chief minister when she assumed the government (1644).
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 1633: Chapter Five
And demonstrated, in his easy manners and relaxed if respectful demeanor, that Oxenstierna's suspicions were well-founded.
"I will not lose my dynasty because of the folly of nobility." He gave Oxenstierna his own version of an stony gaze; which, if it had none of the fervor of Joachim's, made up for the lack by sheer self-confidence.
"You were dead in that—" Axel's hand groped in mid-air.
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 Oxenstierna, Count Axel Gustafsson - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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