Events from the year 1853 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Oscar I
Events The first telegraphy net was being constructed. The first gasworks in Sweden were implemented. Street lights by gas lighting were introduced in the capital.Hadenius, Stig, Nilsson, Torbjörn & Åselius, Gunnar, Sveriges historia: vad varje svensk bör veta, Bonnier Alba, Stockholm, 1996 Coffee brand Gevalia was launched. The choir Orphei Drängar was founded. The profession of teacher at public primary and elementary schools were opened to both sexes.Inger Hultgren (Swedish): Kvinnors organisation och samhällets beslutsprocess (1982) 1853 Stockholm cholera outbreak.
Births 3 January – Sophie Elkan, writer (died 1921) 3 February – Maria Westberg, ballerina (died 1893) 15 February – Edvard Swartz, stage actor (died 1897) 20 February – Amanda Röntgen-Maier, violinist and composer (died 1894) 17 May – Carolina Östberg, opera singer (died 1924) 28 May – Carl Larsson, painter (died 1919) 11 June – Alma Åkermark, feminist and editor (died 1933) 10 September – Gertrud Adelborg, leading member of the women's rights movement (died 1942)
Deaths 15 February – Frans Preumayr, musician and conductor (born 1782) 7 March – Mauritz Frumerie, medal engraver and lithographer (born 1775) 9 April – Pehr Axel Fröst, priest, theologian, and singer (born 1802) 15 April – Alexis Lindblom, philosopher and botanist (born 1807) 19 April – Sven Erlandsson, tapestry maker (born 1768) 30 April – Nils Petter Ehrnberg, industrialist (born 1804) 4 May – Thure Gabriel Adlerbrant, jurist and councillor (born 1780) 15 May – Johan Abraham Aleander, cartoonist (born 1766) 17 May – Claes Himberg, artist (born 1787) 5 June – Maria Johanna Görtz, painter (born 1783) 8 June – Gustaf Keyser, merchant and missionary (born 1785) 12 June – Bengt Andersson, merchant and politician (born 1795) 16 August – Johannes Swartz, manufacturer (born 1790) 18 August – Anna Myhrman, artist (born 1785) 25 August – Johan Leonard Belfrage, printmaker (born 1800) 29 August – Magnus Fürst, physician (born 1823) 2 September – Johan Peter Ericsson, organist and composer (born 1806) 15 September – Ludvig Persson Lundgren, medal engraver (born 1789) 17 September – Maria Christina Strömberg, ballet dancer and actress (born 1777) 23 September – Gustaf Fredrik Åkerhielm, colonel and theatre director (born 1776) 25 September – Fredrik Blom, military officer and architect (born 1781) 27 September – Gudmund Leonard Silverstolpe, poet (born 1815) 18 October – Lars Augustin Bång, shipbuilder (born 1806) 22 October – Anders Lundquist, artist (born 1803) 29 October – Carl Erengisle Hyltén-Cavallius, pharmacist and chemist (born 1817) 1 November – Nils Andersson, murderer and arsonist 1 November – Jöns Göransson Ramberg, murderer and arsonist 2 November – Georg Günther, organist and composer (born 1786) 9 November – Märta Christina Sällström, actress and opera singer (born 1808) 6 November – Samuel Grubbe, philosopher and politician (born 1786) 5 December – Jeanette Wässelius, opera singer and actress (born 1784) 28 December – Peter Blom, artist (born 1791)
Undated Niklas Robert Leffler, artist (born 1811)
Publications
Fredrika Bremer's travelogue Hemmen i den nya världen ('Homes in the New World'''). Wilhelm Lilljeborg's book De crustaceis ex ordinibus tribus: Cladocera, Ostracoda et Copepoda, in Scania occurrentibus. Elias Sehlstedt's poetry collection Fiskmåsen: Poetisk Vår-Kalender för 1853 ('The Seagull: Poetic Spring Calendar for 1853'). Johan Haqvin Wallman's book Försök till en systematisk uppställning af växtfamiljen Characeae, including the first published reference to the species Chara hornemannii.''
See also
1853 paintings from Sweden Built in Sweden in 1853
References