Georg Adlersparre

Count Georg Adlersparre
Born	(1760-03-28)28 March 1760 Hovermo (now part of Berg Municipality, Jämtland County)
Died	23 September 1835(1835-09-23) (aged 75) Kristinehamn Municipality, Värmland
Allegiance	Sweden
Rank	Major General
Battles/wars	Russo-Swedish War
Other work	County governor of Skaraborg County, 1810-1824

Count Georg Adlersparre (March 28, 1760 – September 23, 1835) was a Swedish army commander, politician and writer.

Biography

Adlersparre was born in Hovermo (now a part of Berg Municipality, Jämtland County). Having entered the army at the age of 15, he received from King Gustav III, in 1791, a secret commission to excite the Norwegians to rebellion. After the death of the king, he left the army and devoted himself to science. In 1797–1801, he published a periodical läsing i blandade Ämnen, and the liberal spirit in which he conducted it brought upon him the suspicions of the government.

In 1802, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

In 1809 he joined the military campaign against Russia, and he unexpectedly received the command of a part of the so-called western army, and was shortly afterwards promoted to the post of lieutenant-colonel. He was engaged in the conspiracy with Carl Johan Adlercreutz against Gustav IV Adolf and triggered the revolution of 1809 by marching with his army to Stockholm. He received the thanks of the Riksdag and he was granted several honors that eventually included the title of count; he was governor of Skaraborg County from 1810 until 1824 when he resigned. Having received the command of the army from the new government, he was commissioned to excite the Norwegians against Denmark, in which he was unsuccessful.

After the sudden death of the crown prince he retired from public life, but still continued to receive marks of royal favor, notwithstanding the liberality of his sentiments. In 1831 he was involved in a controversy for publishing secret state documents and his private correspondence with various Swedish princes, actions for which he remained unrepentant (he continued publishing more papers). In 1824 he retired from public life and took stable residence in Gustafsvik Manor in Kristinehamn Municipality, Värmland, where he died in 1835.

Family

In 1809 he married Lovisa Magdalena Linroth (April 20, 1784 – November 8, 1866 Kristinehamn Municipality, Värmland). They had four children:

• Carl August Adlersparre (1810-1862), distinguished himself as a poet and an historian.
• Lovisa Maria Adlersparre (1814-1837)
• Georg Axel Adlersparre (1816-1889)
• Rudolf Adlersparre (1819-1908)

References

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1863). "Adlersparre, Georg". The New American Cyclopedia. Vol. 1. p. 128–129.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). "Adlersparre. I. Georg". The American Cyclopædia. Vol. 1. p. 123.
• Meijer, Bernhard, ed. (1904). Nordisk Familjebok Konversationslexikon och Realencyklopedi (in Swedish). Vol. 1 A-Armati. Stockholm: Nordisk familjeboks förlags aktiebolag. pp. 179–180. Retrieved 2014-01-18. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

External links

• Media related to Georg Adlersparre at Wikimedia Commons
• "Nordisk familjebok (1876-1926)". Project Runeberg. Retrieved 19 January 2014.