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7 unusual facts about Kalmar


John Forssman

Magnus John Karl August Forssman (22 November 1868 – 12 March 1947) was a Swedish pathologist and bacteriologist born in Kalmar.

Kalmar

In more recent times, Kalmar has been an industrial city with Kalmar Verkstad making steam engines, trains and large machinery, later bought by Bombardier who closed the factory in 2005.

Kalmar Nation, Lund

The nation was originally intended for students from the city of Kalmar.

Milan Smiljanić

Smiljanić was born in Kalmar, Sweden, as his father Branko, who was also a professional footballer, was playing for Kalmar AIK FK at the time.

Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck

Officially pronounced dead, she went to Sweden, where she lived under the name Dorothea von Ziedewitz, first as the guest of Governor von Brehmen and then with his widow outside Kalmar, and finally with the Lewenhaupt family on Stäflö for a payment of §1000, where she died, aged seventy-six.

SS Minna

On 2 February 1934, Minna was sold to Kalmar Rederi AB, Kalmar and was renamed Britt.

Ulrika Eleonora Stålhammar

Ulrika Eleonora Stålhammar enlisted in the army as an artillerist in Kalmar in 1713 under the name of William Edstedt, and remained in the army for thirteen years.


Avaskär

In 1598, Sigismund arrived with his fleet to Avaskär and traveled from there to Kalmar to assert his right to the throne of Sweden (see War against Sigismund).

Benno Magnusson

Lars Roger "Benno" Magnusson (born 4 February 1953 in Ålem, Kalmar län, Småland) is a Swedish former footballer.

Carlos Kalmar

Kalmar has been music director of the Hamburger Symphoniker (1987–91), the Stuttgart Philharmonic (1991–95), and the Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau, Germany.

Christina Rahm

In 1804–1809, she was a member in the travelling theatre of Carl Stenborg, and performed in Linköping, Karlskrona Kalmar and Gothenburg.

Cornelius Anckarstjerna

In the naval battle near Møn on 1 June 1677, he commanded the ship Kalmar castle with 74 cannons.

Göran Therborn

Göran Therborn (23 September 1941, Kalmar, Sweden) is a professor of sociology at Cambridge University and is amongst the most highly cited contemporary Marxian-influenced sociologists.

H. Arnold Barton

His paternal grandfather was born in Djursdala parish, Kalmar, Småland county, Sweden and emigrated to America in 1867.

I Want to Be Loved

I Wanna Be Loved by You, a song written by Herbert Stothart and Harry Ruby, with lyrics by Bert Kalmar, for the 1928 musical Good Boy

Kalmar and Ruby

One of them, Ruby, who had also had a number of collaborators, saw a strong compatibility between the two, and by 1920, Kalmar and Ruby recognized that they should form a permanent songwriting team.

Margaret I

Margaret I of Denmark (1353–1412), Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (also later Regent of Sweden), and founder of the Kalmar Union

Margaret of Norway

Margaret I of Denmark (1353–1412), queen regnant of Norway, regent of Denmark and Sweden, and founder of the Kalmar Union

Oeselians

The city remained occupied for some time, contributing to the decline as a center of commerce in the 13th century in favor of Uppsala, Visby, Kalmar and Stockholm.

William Lansdowne

William Lansdowne, Jr., better known as Billy Lansdowne, English former professional footballer who played for West Ham United, Charlton Athletic, Gillingham and Kalmar


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