Nils Philip Gyldenstolpe

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Nils Philip Gyldenstolpe (also Filip ; born February 19, 1734 at Gut Forsby , Österråker , Vingåker ; † February 20, 1810 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish count , chamberlain , Landshövding , governor and court marshal .

Life

Nils Philip Gyldenstolpe was born as the son of Ulrik Nils Gyldenstolpe (1689–1768) and his wife Brita Kristina Oxenstierna (1705–1764) into the noble family Gyldenstolpe .

On April 2, 1750, at the age of sixteen, he enrolled at Uppsala University , where he learned from Johan Ihr. On June 3, 1751 he was chancellor and on July 20, 1757 he was appointed chamberlain to King Adolf Friedrich . On March 30, 1762 he became chamberlain to Adolf Friedrich's son, Crown Prince Gustav . From May 29, 1764 he was private secretary to Queen Luise Ulrike and a few months later on September 21 he was appointed her court marshal and lord of the chamberlain. On March 10, 1766 he was sent to the Danish court. In April 1772 he was again Lord Chamberlain, this time with Queen Sophie Magdalene . From June 23, 1773 to October 29, 1781 he was Landshövding von Gävleborgs län . In 1778 he was also sent to the Russian court. In March 1789 he was appointed governor of Crown Prince Gustav Adolf , until this after the murder of Gustav III. was declared of age on April 9, 1794.

From 1776 he was a member of the Royal Science and Literature Society in Gothenburg , from 1789 of the Swedish Academy and from 1791 of the Royal Academy of Learning, History and Antiquity . On May 1, 1792 he became en av rikets herrar (one of the lords of the empire).

He married on June 3, 1764 in Leufsta Jacquelina Elisabet De Geer (1744-1780), daughter of the industrialist, zoologist and entomologist Carl De Geer (1720-1778) and his wife Catharina Charlotta Ribbing (1720-1787). The couple had the following children:

  • Adolf Ulrik Gustaf Gyldenstolpe (* / † 1765)
  • Christina Charlotta Gyldenstolpe (1766–1825)
  • Nils Gyldenstolpe (1768–1844), major general and Landshövding
  • Carl Edvard Gyldenstolpe (1770–1852), Chamberlain
  • Jaquette Margareta Gyldenstolpe (1772–1773)
  • Ulrik Gyldenstolpe (1774–1855), major general
  • Gabriel Anton Gyldenstolpe (* / † 1776)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nils Philip Gyldenstolpe on the Riksarkivet page
  2. ↑ a b Gylenstolpe at adelsvapen.com
  3. ^ Nils Philip Gyldenstolpe . 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. 420 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Gyldenstolpe, Nils Philip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gyldenstolpe, Nils Filip (alternative)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish count, chamberlain, Landshövding, governor and court marshal
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1734
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Forsby , Österråker , Vingåker
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1810
Place of death Stockholm