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Gustaf-Otto Adelborg

Adelborg resembles Søren Kierkegaard, Carl Jonas Love Almquist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Vilhelm Ekelund in having published essays with primarily psychological content and religious meditations.


AGA cooker

Gustaf Dalen lost his sight in an explosion while developing his earlier invention, a porous substrate for storing gases, Agamassan.

Armas Lindgren

In 1919 he replaced Gustaf Nyström to the position of the professor of architecture in the University of Helsinki.

Bernie Friberg

Gustaf Bernhard Friberg (August 18, 1899 – December 8, 1958) born in Manchester, New Hampshire, attended Worcester Academy, was a Utility Player for the Chicago Cubs (1919–20 and 1922–25), Philadelphia Phillies (1925–32) and Boston Red Sox (1933).

Carl Gustaf Wolff

In 1867 the private person Carl Gustaf Wolff had more tonnage than the cities Kokkola, Jakobstad, Nykarleby, Kristinestad, Rauma and Pori put together.

Conquest of Stockholm

The conquest of Stockholm 1523 is depicted in the Swedish opera Gustaf Wasa from 1786 by Johann Gottlieb Naumann, where the libretto was written by Johan Henric Kellgren and Gustav III of Sweden.

Duchess of Scania

Princess Margareta, Duchess of Scania (1905–1920) as consort of Prince Gustaf Adolf (later King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden)

Duke of Scania

Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Scania 1882-1950, then King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden

Edsberg Castle

The manor later belonged to the Rudbeck family, the first of which was the Over-Governor of Stockholm, Thure Gustaf Rudbeck.

Eric von Rosen

Eric von Rosen's father was Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen and his mother was Ella Carlton Moore of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Gus Forslund

Gustaf Forslund was born in Umeå in Västerbotten, Sweden to Lars Anton Forslund and his wife Ida Maria Fällman.

Gus Lawson

Gus Lawson was born on April 3, 1882 in Norrköping, Sweden to Lars Gustaf Larsson (1847–c1940) and Emma Sofia Sundberg (1845–1888).

Gustaf Dalén

Nils Gustaf Dalén (30 November 1869 – 9 December 1937) was a Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist, the founder of the AGA company and inventor of the AGA cooker and the Dalén light.

Gustaf Douglas

Gustaf Archibald Siegwart Douglas (born 3 March 1938) is the oldest son of count Carl Ludvig Douglas (26 July 1908 Stjärnorp - 21 January 1961 Rio de Janeiro), a Swedish nobleman and diplomat who was Royal Swedish Ambassador to Brazil, and his Prussian wife Ottora Maria Haas-Heye (13 February 1910 Partenkirchen - 17 July 2001).

Gustaf Ericssons Automobilfabrik

GEA (Gustaf Ericssons Automobilfabrik) was a Swedish automobile manufacturer founded by Gustaf Ericsson (son of Lars Magnus Ericsson) in 1904 in Stockholm.

Gustaf Estlander

In 1898, Gustaf Estlander graduated as an architect from the Helsinki Polytechnic Institute (currently Aalto University).

Gustaf Munch-Petersen

Gustaf Munch-Petersen grew up in a rich and respectable home; he was son of Valfrid Palmgren, a Swedish born Associate Professor in Swedish at Copenhagen University and Jon Julius Munch-Petersen, Professor in Engineering Research at the Polytechnic School.

Gustaf Wallenberg

Gustaf Wally (1905–1966), real name Gustaf Wallenberg, actor and theatre manager

Gustav, Prince of Vasa

Gustav, Prince Vasa (9 November 1799 at Stockholm – 4 August/5 August 1877 at Pillnitz), born Crown Prince of Sweden and later called Gustaf Gustafsson von Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Vasa) was the son of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and Queen Frederica.

Henrik Gustaf Söderbaum

Henrik Gustaf Söderbaum was father to the Swedish-German actress Kristina Söderbaum.

Inga Varg

1994: Winner of the prestigious Swedish Association of Architects’ Kasper Salin Award (Kasper Salin-priset) for the corporate headquarters of Nordic sustainable energy company Tekniska Verken in Linköping (awarded together with Gustaf Rosenberg.)

Johan Gustaf Acrel

Johan Gustaf Acrel (May 15, 1741 – February 18, 1801) was a Swedish physician and Professor of Medicine at Uppsala University.

Johan Gustaf Sandberg

Johan Gustaf Sandberg (13 May 1782 – 26 June 1854) was a Swedish painter from Stockholm.

Karl Gustaf Hjalmar Armfeldt

Karl Gustaf Hjalmar Armfeldt was a silversmith and Fabergé workmaster.

Kullervo Manner

His father Gustaf Manner worked in various parishes, including those of Lappi and Vampula.

Michael Nobel

In 2007, the Nobel Charitable Trust, founded by Michael Nobel, Gustaf Nobel, Peter Nobel, and Philip Nobel, announced their plans to establish a new Nobel prize, the Michael Nobel Energy Award, that will award innovations in alternative energy technology.

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud

Pehr Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad, an army lieutenant in the reign of Karl XII, had moved from there to Rapola after the Great Northern War.

Per Holmertz

Per ("Pelle") Anders Gustaf Holmertz (born February 3, 1960 in Motala, Östergötland) is a former freestyle swimmer from Sweden.

Prince Oscar Bernadotte

They were married 15 March 1888 in St Stephen's Church in Bournemouth in England by the vicar Gustaf Beskow, who was close to the queen, Sofia of Nassau, in the presence of Oscar's mother, Queen Sophia, his brothers, two of his brothers, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke and his cousin, the Danish crown princess Louise of Sweden, as well as the mother and brother of Ebba.

Princess Christina

Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson (born 1943), daughter of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld

Baroness Hélène Ingeborg Sibylla Silfverschiöld (b. Göteborg, 20 September 1968), who was a bridesmaid at the wedding of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden in 1976, and in the same year also for Prince Bertil and Princess Lilian of Sweden, Helene's godmother.

Rose Nylund

It was stated that she was valedictorian in her high school graduation (fourth out of nineteen, and was chosen valedictorian because she drew the longest straw), she attended St. Paul Business School, Rockport Community College, and St. Gustaf University, but also that she had never graduated from high school (due to a case of mono).

Royal Mountain Chalet, Prinsehytta

It was given to Crown Prince Olav when he came of age July 2, 1924, by then Swedish Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf.

Skarsgård

Stellan Skarsgård (born 1951), Swedish actor, father of Alexander, Bill, Gustaf and Valter

Tage Erlander

He was born in Ransäter, Värmland County as son of the school teacher Erik Gustaf Erlander (1859–1936).

Valdemar Atterdag holding Visby to ransom, 1361

The painting was made in Munich in the 1880s, about half a millennium after the actual event of 1361, hence there are some incorrect details in the painting—though Carl Gustaf Hellqvist was very ambitious when making pictures that were true to the period—for instance the dachshund that is seen at the very left beer vat and the medieval houses in the background: The first dachshund was bred in the 16th century, not in the 14th century, thus an anachronism.


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