Sten Svantesson Bielke

Portrait of Sten Bielke in the cultural history museum in Stralsund

Sten Svantesson Bielke (* 1598, † April 6, 1638 in Stettin ; also Steno Bielke ) was a Swedish ambassador and director of the Protestant Union .

Life

Bielke came from the noble Bielke family and was the son of Baron Svante Bielke and Elisabet Leijonhufvud . After several trips abroad, which took him to the holy places in Palestine , Bielke became chamberlain in 1625 , legate in 1631 and governor-general of Swedish Pomerania two years later . In the same year he was promoted to the Reichsrat and in 1636 general representative in Germany and director of the Protestant Union.

His contemporaries describe him as eloquent, learned and described as a nobleman who enjoyed the trust of his king, Gustav II Adolf .

He died unmarried in Stettin in 1638.

literature

Sten Svantesson Bielke . 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. 91 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Individual evidence

↑ So the name form with Martin Wehrmann : History of Pomerania. Volume 2. 2nd edition. Verlag Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha 1921, pp. 130, 135.

personal data
SURNAME	Bielke, Sten Svantesson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish politician, Governor General in Swedish Pomerania
DATE OF BIRTH	1598
DATE OF DEATH	April 6, 1638
Place of death	Szczecin

[1] So the name form with Martin Wehrmann : History of Pomerania. Volume 2. 2nd edition. Verlag Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha 1921, pp. 130, 135.