Jacob Gyllenborg

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Jacob Gyllenborg

Count Jakob Gyllenborg (before his elevation to the nobility Jakob Wolimhaus ; * March 7, 1648 in Uppsala , † March 11, 1701 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish politician and imperial councilor.

Life

Jakob Wolimhaus was a son of Simon Wolimhaus , who immigrated to Sweden in 1624 and who had settled in Uppsala as a pharmacist. At a young age, Jakob Wolimhaus made a long journey abroad and then entered the chamber auditing department, where he was promoted to commissioner in 1674 and two years later to assessor . Thereupon he was entrusted with the raising of new regiments and the revision of the guards, and because of the zeal developed in 1680 he was ennobled under the name Gyllenborg and elected to the Imperial Council Committee for several years. This was supposed to deal with the abuses that had crept into the administration of the banks. The skill that Gyllenborg developed in this process gave rise to his appointment as a member of the Reduction Commission , which had the purpose of bringing back all goods that had been torn from the crown by the nobility and clergy in earlier times. Of course, this did not happen without a great deal of arbitrariness and injustices, which fell primarily on Gyllenborg, but on the other hand all the merits of this commission are due to him.

Gyllenborg was characterized by an extraordinary manpower and talent and after completing the reduction work, among other things, tried to restore order in the administration. He even exerted a great influence on the course of the Reichstag negotiations. This made him a favorite of King Charles XI. , especially since he also agreed with his views. The latter was particularly evident at the Diet of 1689, where Gyllenberg was one of the king's most zealous partisans. As a reward, he was appointed governor of the province of Uppsala in 1689 (which function he held until 1695), enfeoffed with Stockholm and given the title of baron. In the Reichstag in 1693 Gyllenborg was appointed land marshal and two years later he was appointed count and councilor to the king. His brother Anders Leijonstedt was also raised to the rank of count.

A credible legend reports that King Charles XI. later, when he was lying on his agonizing deathbed, called Gyllenborg and reproached him severely: he and his comrades in the Reduction Commission should answer before the judgment seat of God what harshness they had induced his government to do. The fact that Gyllenborg's zeal for reduction was not based on self-interest can best be seen from the fact that, unlike many of his comrades, he left no fortune after his death in 1701. He was buried in Uppsala Cathedral.

In his younger years Gyllenborg had been interested in poetry and wrote various occasional poems, which were included in the collection of older poetry edited by Per Hanselli ( Samlade vitterhetsarbeten af ​​svenska författere från Stjernhjelm till Dalin. Utg. Af P. Hanselli , Volume 5, Uppsala 1863) are.

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personal data
SURNAME Gyllenborg, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolimhaus, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1648
PLACE OF BIRTH Uppsala
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1701
Place of death Stockholm