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  Count Fredrik Gyllenborg c 1755   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Count Fredrik Gyllenborg was one of the foremost participants in the second octroi of the Swedish East India Company (1746-66).
The peculiar clouds that surrounds the coat of arm are assumed to be caused by the drawing having been stained by moisture during the trip to China, and that the Chinese porcelain decortators thus have tried to imitaste the ink stain as faithfully as possible.
and carries the coat of arm of the family of Gyllenborg in an oval shield, surrounded by a draped cloth and a cloud.
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 Christiansen, Fredrik Melius --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Norwegian-born choral conductor and composer Fredrik Melius Christiansen is credited with playing a major part in introducing a cappella singing (singing without accompaniment) to the United States.
Christiansen was born in Eidsvoll, Norway, in 1871 and immigrated to the United States in 1888.
Biographical sketches of Klas Pontus Arnoldson of Sweden and Fredrik Bajer of Denmark.
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 Fredrikstad - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Fredrikstad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is a centre of the timber trade and has shipyards; there are also canning, paint, porcelain and plastic industries.
Fredrikstad was founded in 1657 by Fredrik II, king of Denmark and Norway, as a fortress town.
Remains of the fortifications, including gates, drawbridge, and moat, can be seen in Gamlebyen (the old town).
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 Carl Fredrik Pechlin - rFind.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Karl Fredrik Pechlin studerade i Lund, inskrevs 1733 i svensk krigstjänst, avancerade 1751 till överstelöjtnant vid
Fredrik Gyllenborg förnämsta bestyret med utdelandet av de franska mutorna och visade mycken iver att omintetgöra hovets planer på ökad makt samt att förfölja dess anhängare.
Från Pommerska kriget, varunder han visat sig vara en duglig officer, reste han hem för att deltaga i 1760 års riksdag och blev där en av ledarna för den starka opposition, som under namn av lantpartiet uppstod mot hattregeringen.
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 Fredrik Gyllenborg - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fredrik Gyllenborg - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This article about a politician is a stub.
This page was last modified 07:27, 10 May 2005.
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 opera1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The sons of the apothecary Wolimhaus, who were knighted and then were called Gyllenborg and Lejonstedt respectively, were in those days very active in the theatre.
He was a Chancellor of both the university of Lund and of that in Upsala, and as such Gyllenborg was a great pioneer in the use of the Swedish language.
Thus, foreign artists ought to be forbidden, but the problem was that there were hardly any native Swedish artists to be found, and the foreign troupes had to be retained on condition that they obeyed a number of rules.
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 SWEDISH - Online Information article about SWEDISH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It was to Fru Nordenflycht's credit that she discovered and encouraged the talent of two very distinguished poets younger than herself, Creutz and Gyllenborg, who published volumes of poetry in Crentz.
Philip Creutz (q.v.; 1731—1785) was a Finlander who achieved an extraordinary success with his idyllic poems, and in particular with the beautiful pastoral of Atis och Camilla, long the most popular of all Swedish poems.
His friend Count Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg Gyllenborg (1731—1808) was a less accomplished poet, less delicate and touching, more rhetorical and artificial.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /SUS_TAV/SWEDISH.html   (4770 words)

  
 Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg (Svensk litteraturhistoria i sammandrag)
Karl Gyllenborgs brorson (född 1731, sammanträffade 1751 med Creutz, kansliråd, död 1808), var utgången ur en släkt, som före honom räknat fyra skalder.
Dessutom var Gyllenborg en god satiriker, imiterande de romerska satirikerna, t.
-- Af den gustavianska tidens skalder betraktas Gyllenborg såsom en »fader».
www.lysator.liu.se /runeberg/svlihist/gyllbogu.html   (181 words)

  
 Gyllenborg, Gustaf Fredrik, Greve --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Although members of his family were prominent in political life, as a courtier he took no part in politics and attacked the weaknesses of modern society in the spirit of the French Romantic philosopher Rousseau in such poems as “Verldsföraktaren…
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He was also a poet and composer who wrote stirring music to accompany his verses.
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 Scots in Sweden - Eighteenth Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Contact was established between the Duke of Mar and the Swedish government, through the good offices mainly of Count Carl Gyllenborg, the Swedish Minister in London, and the adventurous diplomat Georg Heinrich von Görtz, who had entered the service of Charles XII.
A landing by Charles XII in Scotland or England was planned, but it is not known just how far negotiations advanced.
All such plans were in any case crushed early in 1717, when the English government had Gyllenborg arrested, in spite of his diplomatic status.
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 Sweden
Apr 1739 - 9 Dec 1746 Carl Gyllenborg (b.
25 Jun 1810 - 18 Aug 1829 Fredrik Gyllenborg (b.
1907) NL 12 Sep 1900 - 5 Jul 1902 Baron Fredrik Wilhelm von Otter (b.
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 Biographical notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Personal surgeon of the Swedish king Adolf Fredrik, eye surgeon.
Employed by Collegium medicum, demonstrator of the botanical garden of the Seraphimer Hospital in Stockholm.
Queen of Sweden 1719-1741, married to King Fredrik I. Sister of Karl XII.
www.c18.rutgers.edu /pr/lc/bio.html   (4614 words)

  
 [LitCal] On this Literary Day...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Today is Wednesday, 6 December 2000; on this day, 288 years ago (1712), Richard Steele and Joseph Addison publish the last issue of _The Spectator_.
269 years ago (1731), Swedish poet known for his satirical and reflective poetry, Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg, is born in Stromsbro, near Linkoping.
He will attack the weaknesses of modern society and show the pessimism typical of the late 18th century in such work as "Menniskans elande" ("Misery of Man," 1762).
litcal.yasuda-u.ac.jp /ml/litcal/200012/msg00005.html   (321 words)

  
 Personhistorisk Tidskrift - Register
C C M "Adolf Fredrik Ristell." 1906 s 106-107.
Falk Erik V "Daniel Tilas och Fredrik Gyllenborg." 1935 s 19-49.
H-d B "Fredrik Grönwall in memoriam." 1930 s 86-87.
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 Pacius, Fredrik --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
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The following year Bajer shared the Nobel prize for peace with...
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 Counties of Sweden
1762 - 1763 Fredrik Henrik friherre Sparre (b.
1781 - 1812 Fredrik Adolf Ulrik greve (b.
1911 - 1917 Oscar Fredrik von Sydow (b.
www.worldstatesmen.org /Sweden_county.html   (734 words)

  
 I:0005 (Minnesteckningar öfver utmärkte svenske statsmän, hjeltar, lärde, konstnärer och skalder)
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Minnesteckning öfver Grefve Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg, uppläst i Svenska Akademien 1811.
Rådet Grefve Jakob Gyllenborg, uppläst i Svenska Akademien 1816................» 183; » » » Vice-Amiralen Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, uppläst i Svenska Akademien 1817............» 199.
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