Carl Gyllenborg
Carl Gyllenborg (born March 7, 1679 in Stockholm , † December 9, 1746 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish statesman.
Live and act
Carl Gyllenborg followed Karl XII. on his first campaigns and became embassy secretary in 1703 and ambassador to London in 1710. There he married the Englishwoman Sara Wright.
In 1717 he was at the center of a major diplomatic scandal known as the "Gyllenborg Affaire". The Holstein minister Georg Heinrich von Görtz , authorized by the King of Sweden, tried, in association with Alberoni , to instigate a Jacobite conspiracy against the British King George I in Spain . The English deciphered the correspondence in which the English chief cryptanalyst Edward Willes earned his first spurs and exposed the conspiracy on February 10, 1717 with the arrest of Gyllenborg in London and Görtz in Arnhem in the Netherlands.
The correspondence was published. He proved not only contacts between the Swedes and the Jacobites , but also with the Tsar Peter the Great , through his Scottish personal physician Erskine. Robert Walpole , mentioned in the correspondence as "dissatisfied", had to resign as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The British Minister James Stanhope justified the violation of immunity before Parliament by stating that it would not apply to a conspiracy to overthrow the king.
Released after three months, Gyllenborg became State Secretary in 1718 and, along with Görtz, negotiated peace in Åland with Russia. After Charles XII. In death he became the strong man in the so-called Party of Hats (Hattpartiet), which sold itself to France and which faced Count Horn and the Hats Party (Mösspartiet, Swedish aristocratic party). Gyllenborg triumphed over the latter and in 1739 became president of the firm.
He drove to the Russo-Swedish War 1741–43 . The popular anger that rose against him after the shameful Peace of Åbo in 1743, he knew how to quench by the execution of several generals. He died on December 6, 1746 as Imperial Councilor and Chancellor of Uppsala University .
He also tried his hand at poet and wrote the first Swedish comedy Swenska sprätthöken (1737). On November 30, 1711 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the Royal Society .
His nephew Gustav Friedrich Gyllenborg was a chancellery and poet.
literature
- Philip Stanhope: History of England , Vol. 1, 1856
- J. Murray: The Gyllenborg arrest - a problem in diplomatic immunity , Journal of Modern History 1956
- Larsson: Greve Karl Gyldenborg i London 1715–1717 , Göteborg 1891
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on Gyllenborg, Carl (1679 - 1746) in the archive of the Royal Society , London
Web links
- Correspondence between Carl Gyllenborg and Carl von Linné
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Christoffer Leijoncrona |
Swedish envoy to London 1710–1717 |
Carl Sparre |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gyllenborg, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gyllenborg, Karl von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish statesman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1679 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1746 |
| Place of death | Uppsala |