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Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm Von Sydow argued against both Scandinavian translation and source material due to his theory that Beowulf is fundamentally Christian and written at a time when any Norse tale would have most likely been pagan in nature.
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However, some historians have disagreed with this claim, for instance the Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm von Sydow attacked Frazer's theories, claiming that the Yule log had never had any religious significance, and was instead simply a festive decoration with practical uses.
The Swedish folklorist Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius collected in the mid 19th century stories of legendary creatures in Sweden.
Artur Immanuel Hazelius ( 30 November 1833 – 27 May 1901 ), Swedish teacher, scholar and folklorist, founder of the Nordic Museum and the open-air museum Skansen in Stockholm.
Ebbe Schön ( born December 13, 1929 in Brastad, Bohuslän ) is a Swedish author, folklorist and associate professor in literature at Stockholm University.
The stories that circulated most widely in the 1980s have been retold by the noted Swedish folklorist Bengt af Klintberg, and later featured in the December 10, 1997 installment of Det spökar, a television series dedicated to allegedly real ghost stories and haunted houses.
Swedish and Carl
* 1720 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician ( d. 1796 )
* 1988 – Carl Hagelin, Swedish ice hockey player
Carl Linnaeus ( Swedish original name Carl Nilsson Linnæus, 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778 ), also known after his ennoblement as, was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature.
The synthesis and characterization of elemental chlorine occurred in 1774 by Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who called it " dephlogisticated muriatic acid air ," having thought he synthesized the oxide obtained from the hydrochloric acid.
* 1949 – Carl Bildt, Swedish politician
In 1908 the islands were visited by the Swedish Magellanic Expedition and Carl Skottsberg is believed to have been the last to have seen the Santalum fernandezianum tree alive.
His son, Karl Wilhelm Böttiger ( August 15, 1790-November 26, 1862 ; not to be confused with the Swedish writer Carl Wilhelm Böttiger ), was a historian and biographer of his father.
Lanthanum was discovered in 1839 by Swedish chemist Carl Gustav Mosander, when he partially decomposed a sample of cerium nitrate by heating and treating the resulting salt with dilute nitric acid.
By the mid-18th century, Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele had used pyrolusite to produce chlorine.
* 1853 – Carl Larsson, Swedish painter ( d. 1919 )
* 1858 – Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor and industrialist, developed the blow torch ( d. 1939 )
* 1986 – Carl Gunnarsson, Swedish hockey player
* 1793 – Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Swedish romantic poet ( d. 1866 )
* 1977 – Carl Johan Grimmark, Swedish Christian guitarist ( Narnia, Saviour Machine, Rob Rock, Beautiful Sin )
The Dutch East India Company did not, however, actually employ the Swedish botanist and physician Carl Peter Thunberg ( 1743 – 1828 ), who arrived in Japan in 1775.
The buildings and surroundings were decorated by prominent early 20th century Swedish artists such as Carl Milles, Axel Törneman, Georg Pauli, Tore Strindberg and Ivar Johnsson.
Carl Rolf Ekéus ( born 7 July 1935 in Kristinehamn, Sweden ) is a Swedish diplomat.
Following the adoption of the 1974 Instrument of Government on January 1, 1975, the Swedish Monarch ( King Carl XVI Gustaf since September 15, 1973 ) is no longer vested any executive authority at all, and is neither part of the executive branch nor of the legislature.
* 1695 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician ( d. 1770 )
* 1808 – Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
Swedish and Wilhelm
* 1783 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer ( b. 1717 )
Wilhelm became Grand Admiral of the German Navy, but also was awarded honorific titles from all over Europe, becoming admiral in the British, Russian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Greek navies.
* Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist ( discovered oxygen )
* May 5 – Axel Wilhelm Eriksson, Swedish settler and trader in south-west Africa ( born 1846 )
* December 9 – Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist ( d. 1785 )
* December 13 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer ( b. 1717 )
* May 21 – Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist ( b. 1742 )
* September 22 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer ( d. 1783 )
In 1773 a Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele devised a way of detecting arsenous oxide, simple arsenic, in corpses, although only in large quantities.
* Axel Wilhelm Eriksson ( 1846 – 1901 ), Swedish trader and settler in south west Africa
Great Sleigh Drive ( 1678 ): Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg | Frederick William pursues Swedish troops across the frozen Curonian Spit | Curonian Lagoon ; fresco by Wilhelm Simmler, ca.
* Wilhelm Peterson Berger ( 1867 – 1942 ), Swedish musician
Königsmarck was grandson to the Swedish Field Marshal Hans Christoff von Königsmarck, Bremen-Verden's governor general in Stade, and nephew to the Swedish Field Marshal Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck.
* Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin appointed Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, a position he will hold until his death in 1783.
* May 21-Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist ( born 1742 )
* December 13-Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer ( born 1717 )
* December 9-Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist ( died 1786 ).
* September 11-Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer ( died 1783 )
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