* 1865 – Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer ( d. 1952 )

Stein, as well as other contemporary explorers like Sven Hedin, Sir Francis Younghusband and Nikolai Przhevalsky, were active players in the British-Russian struggle for influence in Central Asia, the so-called Great Game.

* 1952 – Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer ( b. 1865 )

Westerners traveling in Xinjiang in the 1930s, like George W. Hunter, Peter Fleming, Ella K. Maillart, and Sven Hedin all referred to the Turkic Muslims of the region not as Uyghur, but as " Turki ", in their books.

* February 19 – Sven Hedin, Swedish scientist and explorer ( d. 1952 )

Younghusband, among other explorers such as Sven Hedin, Nikolai Przhevalsky, Chokan Valikhanov and Sir Aurel Stein, participated in earnest.

Southern Silk Road: In the Footsteps of Sir Aurel Stein and Sven Hedin.

No hereditary title of nobility has been granted since 1902, when explorer Sven Hedin was ennobled by the King ( that honor was hereditary, but he left no heirs ).

These models include the Ford-based Big Nugget, Volkswagen-based Sven Hedin and the Michelangelo.

Sculptor Carl Milles ' numerous works in Metro Detroit include those at Cranbrook Educational Community such as Mermaids & Tritons Fountain ( 1930 ), Sven Hedin on a Camel ( 1932 ), Jonah and the Whale Fountain

* Hedin, Sven.

Ennoblements continued even after the estates had lost their political importance, with the last ennoblement of explorer Sven Hedin taking place in 1902 ; this practice was formally abolished with the adoption of the new Constitution January 1, 1975, while the status of the House of Nobility continued to be regulated in law until 2003.

A model copy of that " Little Potala " was made in China for the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin, and was erected at the Great Exhibition of Chicago.

Sven Hedin also encountered Tibetan tribesmen on horseback armed with matchlock rifles along the Tibetan border with Xinjiang.

She then returned to England, before traveling to Sweden where she met with Sven Hedin.

Sven Hedin circa 1915

Sven Hedin lived with family members in the upper three stories of this house in Stockholm, Norr Mälarstrand 66, from 1935 until his death in 1952.

Sven Anders Hedin KNO1kl RVO ( 19 February 1865 – 26 November 1952 ) was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, and travel writer, as well as an illustrator of his own works.

At 15 years of age, Sven Hedin witnessed the triumphal return of the Arctic explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld after his first navigation of the Northern Sea Route.

Sven Hedin was and remained a figure of the 19th century who clung to its visions and methods also in the 20th century.

Because of failing health, the civil war in Chinese Turkestan, and a long period of captivity, Sven Hedin, by then 70 years of age, had a difficult time after the currency depreciation of the Great Depression raising the money required for the expedition, the logistics for assuring the supplying of the expedition in a war arena, and obtaining access for the expedition ’ s participants to a research area intensely contested by warlords.

Starting in 1937, the scientific material assembled during the expedition was published in over 50 volumes by Sven Hedin and other expedition participants, thereby making it available for worldwide research on eastern Asia.

A view of the entire area of Central Asia opened up for cartography and research by Sven Hedin in his expeditions.

Although he was not a National Socialist, Sven Hedin ’ s incredible naivety and gullibility as well as his illusive hope that Nazi Germany would protect Scandinavia from invasion by the Soviet Union brought him in dangerous proximity to representatives of National Socialism, who exploited him as an author.

The U. S. Army Map Service later solicited Sven Hedin ’ s assistance and financed the printing and publication of his life ’ s work, the Central Asia atlas.

Like Agatha Christie, she isn't overly fond of the detective she is most famous for creating – in Ariadne's case the Finnish sleuth Sven Hjerson.

A lot of famous Swedes, as Jan Myrdal, Peter Birro and Sven Wollter, who is a member of the Communist Party, have been published in Proletären.

In 1988 a humorous book called The Book of Revelations ( Mark Leigh and Mike Lepine ) printed a parody of both Beatrix Potter and Sven Hassel entitled Peter Rabbit-Tank Killer, lampooning the fashion of the period for unscrupulous publishers and literary estates to draft in famous authors to pen " continuations " of their most successful characters and series.

Svend Aggesen ( or " Sven "; also known as Aggessøn, Aggesøn or Aagesen, in Latin Sveno Aggonis ; born around 1140 to 1150, death unknown ) is most famous, in Denmark at least, as the author of one of the first attempts to write a coherent history of Denmark covering the period 300AD-1185AD.

In the books, Oliver's most famous works are those featuring her vegetarian Finn detective Sven Hjerson.

The famous swedish sailor and shipowner Sven Salén ( 1890 – 1969 ) first used the genoa on his 6 m R-yacht " May-Be " by the end of 1926.

Marco Polo passed near the lake, and the famous explorers Ferdinand von Richthofen, Nikolai Przhevalsky, Sven Hedin and Aurel Stein visited and studied the area.

His most famous song is Kom van dat dak af ( English version of the 1989 remake with rap duo MC Miker G & DJ Sven ; Get Down The Roof Kid ).

His lectures attracted numerous students who subsequently became eminent in geographical work, and in order to keep in touch with them he established his weekly geographical “ colloquium .” Among his most famous students was Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer.

Among the most famous characters is the simple but heroic rotesoldat Sven Dufva.

In addition, Gustafsson is a skilled imitator and his many famous imitations include Sven Wollter, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Tony Rickardsson, Robert Aschberg and Magnus Härenstam as well as former Prime Ministers Göran Persson and Carl Bildt.

But one discovery remained unknown to Chinese researchers until the turn of the millennium: in the Lop Nur desert, Sven Hedin discovered in 1933 and 1934 ruins of signal towers which prove that the Great Wall of China once extended to Xinjiang.

Between 1927 and 1935 Sven Hedin led an international Sino-Swedish Expedition which investigated the meteorological, topographic and prehistoric situation in Mongolia, the Gobi desert and Xinjiang.

The ruins of this town were discovered by Sven Hedin in the desert of Lop in 1901.

From that moment on, young Sven aspired to become an explorer.

When he was 15 years old Sven Hedin witnessed the triumphal return of the Swedish Arctic explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld after his first navigation of the Northern Sea Route.

Sven Hedin had therewith decided to become an explorer.

D. Henze wrote the following about an exhibition at the Deutsches Museum entitled Sven Hedin, the last explorer:

* Sven Hedin ( 1862-1952 ), Swedish geographer and explorer