1839 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1839 in Sweden
Incumbents
Events
- The revised edition of the radical novel Det går an by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, first published in 1822, is published[1]
- Liljeholmens Stearinfabriks AB
- Stockholms Lyceum
Births
- 2 March - Victoria Bundsen, opera alto (died 1909)
- 18 April - Lotten Edholm, composer and a pioneer within the Swedish Red Cross (died 1930)
- 21 May - Nils Christoffer Dunér, astronomer (died 1914)
- 24 August - Sofie Johannesdotter, serial killer (died 1876)
- 2 November - Augusta Braunerhjelm, playwright (died 1929)
- 30 December - Victor Hartman, actor (died 1898)
- Charlotte Yhlen, doctor (died 1919)
- Hulda Mellgren, industrialist (died 1918)
Deaths
- 7 February - Karl August Nicander, poet (born 1799)
- 30 June - Johan Olof Wallin, minister, orator, poet and later Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala (born 1779)
- Jacquette Löwenhielm, royal mistress (born 1797)
- Pär Aron Borg, pioneer in the education for the blind and deaf (born 1776)
- Pehr Henrik Ling, called the "father of Swedish athletics"[1]
