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Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
, is a major cemetery of Metropolitan Stockholm. The cemetery is located in the municipality of Solna
Solna Municipality
Solna Municipality is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, located just north of the capital Stockholm. Its seat is located in the 'city' of Solna....
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Inaugurated on June 9, 1827, it is the burial site for a number of Swedish notables.
Notable interments
- Salomon August AndréeSalomon August AndréeSalomon August Andrée , during his lifetime most often known as S. A. Andrée, was a Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer who died while leading an attempt to reach the Geographic North Pole by hydrogen balloon...
(1854-1897), polar explorer - Klas Pontus ArnoldsonKlas Pontus ArnoldsonKlas Pontus Arnoldson was a Swedish author, journalist, politician, and committed pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908. He was a founding member and the first chairman of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society.-External links:* * at Find-A-Grave...
(1844-1916), Nobel Peace Prize recipient - Ingrid BergmanIngrid BergmanIngrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute...
(1915-1982), actress - Bo BergmanBo BergmanBo Bergman was a Swedish writer, literary critic and member of the Swedish Academy, sitting in Seat 12 from 1925 until his death...
(1869-1967), author, poet, lyricist - Folke BernadotteFolke BernadotteFolke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman noted for his negotiation of the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps during World War II, including 450 Danish Jews from Theresienstadt released on 14 April 1945...
(1895-1948), diplomat - Franz BerwaldFranz BerwaldFranz Adolf Berwald was a Swedish Romantic composer who was generally ignored during his lifetime. He made his living as an orthopedic surgeon and later as the manager of a saw mill and glass factory....
(1796-1868), classical composer - Ulla Billquist (1907-1946). singer
- Ulf BjörlinUlf BjörlinUlf Björlin was a Swedish composer and conductor.Björlin was born in Stockholm and went as a 19-year old to study music for the conductor Igor Markevitch in Salzburg, later continuing at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he had Nadia Boulanger as a teacher...
(1933-1993), conductor, composer - August BlancheAugust BlancheAugust Blanche was a Swedish journalist, novelist, and a Socialist statesman.August Theodor Blanche was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the illegitimate child of a servant girl and a priest. His mother eventually married Johan Jacob Blanck, a blacksmith and the boy took his stepfather's name...
(1811-1868), writer, publicist, politician - Isak Gustaf ClasonIsak Gustaf ClasonIsak Gustaf Clason was a Swedish architect.- Biography :Clason studied engineering and later architecture at the Institute of Technology in Stockholm, where he was a student of A. T. Gellerstedt, and later at the architectural school of the Academy of Arts, at the time headed by Fredrik Wilhelm...
(1856-1930), architect - Gösta Ekman (senior)Gösta Ekman (senior)Gösta Ekman, Sr. , born Frans Gösta Viktor Ekman, was a Swedish actor. Generally spoken of as Swedish theatre's most legendary stage actor, Gösta Ekman enjoyed a prolific stage career during his short life, becoming the first real star of Swedish theatre...
(1890-1938), actor - Knut FrænkelKnut FrænkelKnut Hjalmar Ferdinand Frænkel was a Swedish engineer and arctic explorer who perished in the Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 of S. A...
(1870-1897), engineer and Arctic explorer - Isaac GrünewaldIsaac GrünewaldIsaac Grünewald was a Swedish-Jewish expressionist painter born in Stockholm. He was the leading and central name in the first generation of Swedish modernists from 1910 up until his death in 1946, in other words during almost his entire career spanning four decades...
(1889-1946), painter - Allvar GullstrandAllvar GullstrandAllvar Gullstrand was a Swedish ophthalmologist.Born at Landskrona, Sweden, Gullstrand was professor successively of eye therapy and of optics at the University of Uppsala. He applied the methods of physical mathematics to the study of optical images and of the refraction of light in the eye...
(1862-1930), physician, Nobel Prize in Medicine - Per Albin HanssonPer Albin HanssonPer Albin Hansson , was a Swedish politician, chairman of the Social Democrats from 1925 and two-time Prime Minister in four governments between 1932 and 1946, governing all that period save for a short-lived crisis in the summer of 1936, which he ended by forming a coalition government with his...
(1885-1946), Prime Minister of Sweden - Sofia KovalevskayaSofia KovalevskayaSofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya , was the first major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe.She was also one of the first females to...
(1850-1891), mathematician, writer - Ivar KreugerIvar KreugerIvar Kreuger was a Swedish civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist. In 1908 Kreuger co-founded the construction company Kreuger & Toll Byggnads AB which specialized in new building techniques. By aggressive investments and innovative financial instruments he built a global match...
(1880-1932), industrialist and financier - Gustaf de LavalGustaf de LavalKarl Gustaf Patrik de Laval was a Swedish engineer and inventor who made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and dairy machinery.-Life:De Laval was born at Orsa in Dalarna...
(1845-1932), engineer and inventor - Arvid LindmanArvid LindmanSalomon Arvid Achates Lindman was a Swedish Rear Admiral, Industrialist and conservative politician...
(1862-1936), Prime Minister of Sweden - Vilhelm MobergVilhelm MobergKarl Artur Vilhelm Moberg was a Swedish author and historian, most commonly associated with his four novels known as The Emigrants Series.-Early life:...
(1898-1973), author - Alfred NobelAlfred NobelAlfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. He is the inventor of dynamite. Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments...
(1833-1896), inventor and founder of the Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
. - Jenny NyströmJenny NyströmJenny Eugenia Nyström was a painter and illustrator who is mainly known as the person who created the Swedish image of the jultomte on numerous Christmas cards and magazine covers, thus linking the Swedish version of Santa Claus to the gnomes of Scandinavian folklore.- Background :Her father was...
(1854-1946), artist, illustrator - Ernst RolfErnst RolfErnst Rolf, real name Ernst Ragnar Johansson, , was a Swedish revue actor and singer. In the 1920s he was famous for producing revues that were acclaimed for their dazzling sets, first class actors and stirring music. He was also a lyricist and composer...
(1891-1932), entertainer, theatrical producer - Nelly SachsNelly SachsNelly Sachs was a Jewish German poet and playwright whose experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokeswoman for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews...
(1891-1970), author, Nobel Prize in literature - Ulrich SalchowUlrich SalchowKarl Emil Julius Ulrich Salchow was a Swedish figure skater, who dominated the sport in the first decade of the 20th century....
(1877-1949), world and Olympic figure skating champion, jump named for him - Victor SjöströmVictor SjöströmVictor Sjöström was a Swedish actor, screenwriter, and film director.- Biography:Born in Silbodal, in the Värmland region of Sweden, he was only a year old when his father, Olof Adolf Sjöström, moved the family to Brooklyn, New York. His mother died when he was seven years old in 1886...
(Victor Seastrom) (1879-1960), international film director - Karl StaaffKarl StaaffKarl Albert Staaff was a Swedish liberal politician and lawyer. He was chairman of the Liberal Coalition Party and served twice as Prime Minister of Sweden ....
(1860-1915), Prime Minister of Sweden - Mauritz StillerMauritz StillerMauritz Stiller was a Finnish-Swedish actor, screenwriter and silent film director, who was mostly active in Sweden.-Life:...
(1883-1928), film director - August StrindbergAugust StrindbergJohan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography,...
(1849-1912), author, playwright - Nils StrindbergNils StrindbergNils Strindberg was a Swedish photographer who was one of the three members of S. A. Andrée's ill-fated Arctic balloon expedition of 1897. Before perishing on Kvitøya with Andrée and Knut Frænkel, Strindberg recorded on film their long doomed struggle on foot to reach populated areas...
(1872-1897), photographer and Arctic explorer - Inga Tidblad (1901-1975), actress
- Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell (1903-1982}, scientist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Wilhelmina SkoghWilhelmina SkoghLorentina Wilhelmina Skogh, born Wahlgren was a hotel manager and owned a number of hotels and restaurants in Sweden....
(1849-1926), business woman, owned hotel- and restaurants. - Samuel OwenSamuel OwenSamuel Owen, born 12 May 1774 in Norton in Hales, Shropshire, England, died 15 February 1854 in Stockholm, was a British-Swedish engineer, inventor and industrialist...
(1774-1854), engineer, inventor, industrialist. Born in England.