Carl Anders Rohdin
Carl Anders Rohdin (born April 2, 1834 in Stockholm , † May 22, 1915 in Säffle ) was a Swedish pastry chef and poet . In 1860 he was the first Swede to be honored with the Royal Medal of Merit Litteris et Artibus , the highest national award in the field of art and culture.
Life
Rohdin was born in early April 1834 as the first child of customs officer Anders Mathias Rohdin and his wife Beata Carolina Nyforss in the Swedish capital Stockholm.
His parents' house was in Bollhusgränd , only a hundred meters from the royal palace . Rohdin, a pastry chef by profession, felt a great affection and admiration for the royal family, which he expressed early in his life in poems he wrote himself . Because of a poem he wrote as a tribute to King Charles XV. wrote on the occasion of his coronation, he was the first Swede to be honored in 1860 with the Litteris et Artibus medal, which the king himself had donated in 1853.
Rohdin was married to Anna Elisabeth Samzelius (1828–1864) from 1858 and had three children. After he became a widower at an early age, he left the children in Stockholm and went on a journeyman's journey through the country. First he moved to Fryxnäs near Gillberga in 1874 and finally settled in Säffle in the province of Värmland County in 1880 . There, Rohdin married Anna Stina Eriksdotter (1835–1920), who came from the nearby village of Kila, and was a sister of the later Bishop of Västerås , Nils Lövgren. In 1902 he had the so-called Zetterlundhuset built at Vestra Norgatan 17 in Säffle .
Far beyond Säffle, Rohdin was not only known as a confectioner and for his poetry, but also as a committed fighter against the consumption of alcoholic beverages . As a staunch supporter of the Swedish abstinence movement , he also experimented with recipes for his own non-alcoholic soft drinks , which he hoped would spread around the world. For his drink with the name Mandelbrus , he also invented a practical bottle rack that could also be used for transport with the accompanying wooden lid, and applied for a patent for it under the name Buteljfack . The photograph on the left shows Rohdin with his invention and a framed advertising poster in 1898.
Even in old age and until shortly before his death, Carl Anders Rohdin worked as a pastry chef in Säffle. He died a few weeks after he had turned 81 on May 22, 1915 in Säffle and was buried on May 28, 1915 in By Kyrkogård , the cemetery of By Kyrka , a few kilometers southeast of the village . His wife also found her final resting place there almost five years later in the shared grave.
family
Only two of his children from his first marriage reached adulthood. His daughter Hulda (1859–1937) emigrated to the United States and lived there with her second husband, the painter Anders Ferdinand Lindahl (1868–1944) from Huggenäs, and their children in Boston . His son Carl Johann (1860–1929) took up the same profession as his father and worked for many years as a confectioner in Sollefteå .
literature
- Sven-Eril Dahlström: Byidyll i förvandling: Om Säffle köping vid sekelskiftet . Värmlandstryck, Säffle 1988 (Swedish).
- Karl Löfström: Kungl. medals Litteris et artibus . Nordisk rotogravyr, Stockholm 1935, p. 13-16 (Swedish).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Scans of civil status documents viewed on ancestry.com on September 29, 2019.
- ↑ Ludvig Åberg: # 18868. Sveriges Släktforskarförbund, June 22, 2003, accessed September 29, 2019 (Swedish).
- ↑ a b c d Några pictures ur boken. Claes Åkerblom, accessed September 29, 2019 (Swedish).
- ↑ Carl Anders Rohdin. gravar.se, accessed on September 29, 2019 (Swedish, information on the location of Rohdin's grave).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rohdin, Carl Anders |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rohdin, CA; Rhodin, Carl Anders; Rodhin, Carl Anders |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish confectioner and poet, winner of the royal medal "Litteris et Artibus" |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm , Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1915 |
| Place of death | Säffle , Sweden |