Carl Gustav (name)
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While both "Carl
" and "Gustav" (and numerous variants) are names in their own right, the compound name Carl Gustav is often used, especially in Scandinavia
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People named Carl Gustav (and variants) include:
Carl (name)
.Carl is a popular given name as well as the name of various places. The most popular male variations are Karl, Charles; the popularity stems from the long lines of historical nobility using these names. There also exist many female variations such as Charlotte and Carla...
" and "Gustav" (and numerous variants) are names in their own right, the compound name Carl Gustav is often used, especially in Scandinavia
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...
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People named Carl Gustav (and variants) include:
Swedes
- Charles X Gustav of SwedenCharles X Gustav of SwedenCharles X Gustav also Carl Gustav, was King of Sweden from 1654 until his death. He was the son of John Casimir, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Kleeburg and Catherine of Sweden. After his father's death he also succeeded him as Pfalzgraf. He was married to Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, who...
(1622–1660), King of Sweden - Carl XVI Gustaf of SwedenCarl XVI Gustaf of SwedenCarl XVI Gustaf is the reigning King of Sweden since 15 September 1973, succeeding his grandfather King Gustaf VI Adolf because his father had predeceased him...
(born 1946), King of Sweden - Karl Gustav AbramssonKarl Gustav AbramssonKarl Gustav Abramsson is a Swedish social democratic politician who has been a member of the Riksdag since 1998.-References:...
(born 1947), Swedish politician - Carl Gustaf ArmfeldtCarl Gustaf ArmfeldtCarl Gustaf Armfeldt was a Swedish officer, general and friherre who took part in the Great Northern War....
(1666-1736), Swedish military commander - Carl Gustaf EkmanCarl Gustaf EkmanCarl Gustaf Ekman was a Swedish politician, Member of Parliament 1911-1932 , leader of the Freeminded People's Party 1924-1932 and Prime Minister from 1926 to 1928 and again from 1930 to 1932....
(1872–1945), Swedish politician - Carl Gustaf HellqvistCarl Gustaf HellqvistCarl Gustaf Hellqvist was one of Sweden's most popular historical painters in the 19th century. He was born in 1851 in Kungsör, between Arboga and Eskilstuna at Lake Mälaren, Sweden, where he grew up and went to school.In 1864 Hellqvist started to study art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in...
(1851–1890), Swedish painter - Carl Gustaf LewenhauptCarl Gustaf LewenhauptCarl Gustaf Moritz Thure Lewenhaupt was a Swedish horse rider who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In the 1920 Summer Olympics he won a bronze medal in the Individual jumping event....
(1884-1935), Swedish horse rider - Carl-Gustaf LindstedtCarl-Gustaf LindstedtCarl-Gustaf Lindstedt was a Swedish actor. He grew up in Kungsholmen in Stockholm, where there now is a street named after him....
(1921–1992), Swedish actor - Carl Gustaf LöwenhielmCarl Gustaf LöwenhielmCount Carl Gustaf Löwenhielm was a Swedish diplomat and Lieutenant-General who was also notable for his paintings of the countries in which he served. He married on 18 September 1817 Jaquette Löwenhielm, the famous mistress of King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway. The couple had no children and...
(1790-1858), Swedish diplomat - Carl Gustaf MosanderCarl Gustaf MosanderCarl Gustaf Mosander was a Swedish chemist. He discovered the elements lanthanum, erbium and terbium....
(1797–1858), Swedish chemist - Carl Gustaf von NierothCarl Gustaf von NierothCarl Nieroth was a Swedish officer and Governor-General of Swedish Estonia 1709–1710 and of Finland 1710–1712....
(died 1712), Swedish military commander - Carl Gustaf NordinCarl Gustaf NordinCarl Gustaf Nordin was a Swedish statesman, historian and ecclesiastic.-Early life:...
(1749-1812), Swedish statesman, historian and ecclesiastic - Carl Gustaf PiloCarl Gustaf PiloCarl Gustaf Pilo was a Swedish-born artist and painter, one of many 18th century European artists who had to leave their own country in order to make a living. Pilo worked extensively in Denmark as a painter to the Danish Court and as professor and director at the Royal Danish Academy of Art ,...
(1711–1793), Swedish painter - Carl Gustaf von RosenCarl Gustaf von RosenCount Carl Gustaf Ericsson von Rosen was a Swedish pioneer aviator. He flew relief missions in a number of conflicts as well as combat missions for Finland and Biafran rebels...
(1909–1977), Swedish aviator - Carl-Gustaf RossbyCarl-Gustaf RossbyCarl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby was a Swedish-U.S. meteorologist who first explained the large-scale motions of the atmosphere in terms of fluid mechanics....
(1898–1957), Swedish-American meteorologist - Carl Gustaf TessinCarl Gustaf TessinCount Carl Gustaf Tessin was a Swedish politician and son of architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and Hedvig Eleonora Stenbock.-Life:Carl Gustaf Tessin was born in Stockholm...
(1695-1770), Swedish politician - Carl Gustaf ThomsonCarl Gustaf ThomsonCarl Gustaf Thomson was a Swedish entomologist.Thomson became a student in the University of Lund in 1843 , graduated in 1850 and became associate professor of zoology there in 1857...
(1824–1899), Swedish entomologist - Karl Gustaf VinqvistKarl Gustaf VinqvistKarl Gustaf Vinqvist was a Swedish gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Swedish team, which was able to win the gold medal in the gymnastics men's team event in 1908.-External links:...
(1883-1967), Swedish gymnast - Karl Gustaf WestmanKarl Gustaf WestmanKarl Gustaf Westman Karl Gustaf Westman Karl Gustaf Westman (August 18, 1876 (Gothenburg)–January 24, 1944 (Stockholm) was a Swedish historian and political leader.-Biography:Westman attended Uppsala University, where he earned bachelor's degree in 1897, Licentiate of Philosophy in 1904 and a...
(1876–1944), Swedish historian and politician - Carl Gustaf WrangelCarl Gustaf WrangelCarl Gustaf Wrangel was a high-ranking Swedish noble, statesman and military commander in the Thirty Years', Torstenson, Bremen, Second Northern and Scanian Wars....
(1613-1676), Swedish military commander
Danes and Finns
- Karl Gustav AhlefeldtKarl Gustav AhlefeldtKarl Gustav Ahlefeldt was a Danish film actor. He appeared in the Carl Theodor Dreyer masterpiece Gertrud .-Filmography:*Familien Olsen - 1940*Sommerglæder - 1940*Tante Cramers testamente - 1941...
(1910-1985), Danish film actor - Carl Gustaf von Mannerheim (1797–1854), Finnish entomologist
- Carl Gustaf Emil MannerheimCarl Gustaf Emil MannerheimBaron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War, Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defence Forces during World War II, Marshal of Finland, and a Finnish statesman. He was Regent of Finland and the sixth President of Finland...
(1867– 1951), Finnish military commander and statesman - Carl Gustaf WolffCarl Gustaf WolffCarl Gustaf Wolff was a prominent Finnish shipowner and businessman during his time. He was born in either Noormarkku or Suomenlinna in Finland, when it still was a part of Sweden. His father Dietrich Wolff lead the military orchestra in Suomenlinna and later he became the conductor for the...
(1800-1868), Finnish shipowner and businessman
Germans, Swiss and Russians
- Carl Gustav CarusCarl Gustav CarusCarl Gustav Carus was a German physiologist and painter, born at Leipzig.A friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, he was a many-sided man: a doctor, a naturalist, a scientist and a psychologist and an advocate of the theory that health of body and mind depends on the equipoise of antagonistic...
(1789-1869), German physiologist and painter - Karl Gustav HimlyKarl Gustav HimlyKarl Gustav Himly was a German surgeon and opthalmologist from Braunschweig. He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg under Karl Kaspar von Siebold , and at the University of Göttingen under August Gottlieb Richter...
(1772-1837), German surgeon and optician - Karl Gustav HomeyerKarl Gustav HomeyerKarl Gustav Homeyer , German jurist, was born at Wolgast in Pomerania.After studying law at the universities of Berlin, Göttingen and Heidelberg , he settled as a Privatdozent, in 1821, at the university of Berlin, where he became ordinary professor of law in 1827.His principal works are his...
(1795-1874), German jurist - Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804-1851), German mathematician
- Carl Gustav JungCarl JungCarl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of Analytical Psychology. Jung is considered the first modern psychiatrist to view the human psyche as "by nature religious" and make it the focus of exploration. Jung is one of the best known researchers in the field of dream analysis and...
(1875–1961), Swiss founder of analytical psychologyAnalytical psychologyAnalytical psychology is the school of psychology originating from the ideas of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. His theoretical orientation has been advanced by his students and other thinkers who followed in his tradition. Though they share similarities, analytical psychology is distinct from... - Karl Gustav von LöwenwoldeKarl Gustav von LöwenwoldeCount Karl Gustav von Löwenwolde was a Russian diplomat and military commander.Native of German speaking population of Livonia. Son of General Gerhard Johann von Löwenwolde and Magdalene Elisabeth von Löwen and brother to knight of the Order of St...
(died 1735), Russian diplomat and military commander - Carl Gustav WittCarl Gustav WittCarl Gustav Witt was a German astronomer who used to work at the popular observatory of the Urania astronomical association of Berlin ....
(1866–1946), German astronomer