Carl Christoffer Gjörwell Sr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carl Christoffer Gjörwell Sr.

Swedish historian

Date of Birth: 10-Feb-1731

Place of Birth: Landskrona Parish, Skåne County, Sweden

Date of Death: 26-Aug-1811

Profession: librarian, historian, literary critic

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Carl Christoffer Gjörwell (the elder) (born 10 February 1731 in Landskrona, died 26 August 1811 in Stockholm), was a Swedish journalist, a prolific editor of some twenty journals and a psalmist whose hymns were published in the Moravian hymnal Sions Nya Sånger ("New songs of Zion") and elsewhere.
His name is alternatively rendered as Carl Christoffersson Gjörwell, Carl Christopher Gjörwell or Karl Kristofer Gjörwell. Gjörwell studied at Lund University and at Germany's University of Greifswald before coming to Stockholm to become a librarian at the National Library of Sweden.

Per Krafft the Elder (1724–1793)
Description	Swedish portrait painter father of Per Krafft the Younger
Date of birth/death	16 February 1724	7 November 1793
Location of birth/death	Arboga	Klara Parish
Work location	Paris, Bayreuth, Poland
Authority control	: Q927577 VIAF: 41740165 ISNI: 0000 0000 7262 7057 ULAN: 500025206 LCCN: nr96030069 WGA: KRAFFT, Per the Elder WorldCat