Magnus Bjornstjerna

Count Magnus Fredrik Ferdinand Björnstjerna (born October 10, 1779 in Dresden , † October 6, 1847 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish general , diplomat and writer .

Life

He was brought up in Germany, where his father Magnus Olof Björnstjerna was Swedish legation secretary from 1770 and from 1779 until his death in 1785 he was ambassador extraordinary to the Reichstag in Regensburg. His mother Baroness Wilhelmina Louisa, b. v. After the death of her husband, Hagen lived in Regensburg, where she died in 1817 and was buried. In 1839, 54 years after his father's death, he had a neo-Gothic epitaph built for his father, whose grave was not marked in the ambassador's cemetery ( list of the burial sites of ambassadors at the Perpetual Reichstag in Regensburg ).

He joined the army in Sweden in 1793 . He became a major in the Finnish War , went to Napoleon I as secret ambassador in 1809 , and negotiated in London in 1812 to sell the island of Guadeloupe . In 1813 he went to Germany as a colonel with the Swedish army, where he was supposed to terrorize Hamburg and defend the Vierlande, but had to retreat and then fight with Leipzig.

He led the negotiations for the surrender of Lübeck and Maastricht , later fought in Holstein and Norway and concluded the Moss Convention with Prince Christian Friedrich , as a result of which Norway was united with Sweden on October 20, 1814. In 1815 he became adjutant general and baron, in 1820 lieutenant general and in 1826 count. From 1828 to 1846 he served as Plenipotentiary Minister at the British Court, after which he returned to Stockholm. As a member of the nobility in the Swedish Estates Assembly , Björnsterna professed moderate liberalism.

Fonts

He wrote in both Swedish and German:

The British Empire in the East Indies . Translated by Johannes Rohtlieb . Stockholm: Fritze & Bagge, 1839.
The theogony, philosophy and cosmogony of the Hindus . Stockholm: Norstedt, 1843; also several things about state economic issues.

literature

Björnstjerna, Magnus Fredrik Ferdinand . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-K . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 104-105 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Literature by Magnus Björnstjerna in the catalog of the Berlin State Library

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Albrecht Klose / Klaus-Peter Rueß: The grave inscriptions on the ambassador's cemetery in Regensburg. Texts, translations, biographies . In: Stadtarchiv Regensburg (ed.): Regensburger studies . tape 22 . Regensburg City Archives, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-943222-13-5 , p. 35 .
↑ Klaus-Peter Rueß: Burials and grave monuments on the "Kirch-Hoff zur Heyligen Dreyfaltigkeit" at the Dreieinigkeitskirche in Regensburg. Edition of the burial entries in the handwritten burial register 1641–1787 for the sentry cemetery in Regensburg. State Library Regensburg, Regensburg 2015, p. XLVII

predecessor	Office	successor
Gustaf Algernon Stierneld	Swedish envoy to London 1828–1846	Gotthard Mauritz von Rehausen

personal data
SURNAME	Björnstjerna, Magnus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Björnstjerna, Magnus Fredrik Ferdinand; Björnstjerna, Magnus Friedrich Ferdinand von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish general, diplomat and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 10, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	October 6, 1847
Place of death	Stockholm

[RueKlo-1] A ^b Albrecht Klose / Klaus-Peter Rueß: The grave inscriptions on the ambassador's cemetery in Regensburg. Texts, translations, biographies . In: Stadtarchiv Regensburg (ed.): Regensburger studies . tape 22 . Regensburg City Archives, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-943222-13-5 , p. 35 .

[2] Klaus-Peter Rueß: Burials and grave monuments on the "Kirch-Hoff zur Heyligen Dreyfaltigkeit" at the Dreieinigkeitskirche in Regensburg. Edition of the burial entries in the handwritten burial register 1641–1787 for the sentry cemetery in Regensburg. State Library Regensburg, Regensburg 2015, p. XLVII