Carl Gustaf Löwenhielm, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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About Carl Gustaf Löwenhielm
- Count Carl Gustaf Löwenhielm (January 30, 1790 – May 18, 1858) was a Swedish diplomat and Lieutenant general. Carl Gustaf Löwenhielm was born in Värmland and grew up on a manor.
- He joined the military in 1809 and in 1811 became courtier in the service of the Crown Price, the future King Oscar I of Sweden.
- In 1812 he traveled to Russia to join the anti-Napoleonic cause.
- He fought in the Russian army against the French in the battles of Borodino and Leipzig and was present during the conquest of Paris in 1814.
- He married on 18 September 1817 Jacquette Löwenhielm, the famous mistress of King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway.
- The couple had no children and divorced in 1828.In 1821, he was promoted to the rank of colonel and served in the general staff of Sweden.
- He traveled to Bavaria in 1822 on a mission from Prince Oscar to ask for the hand of Josephine of Leuchtenberg on his behalf.
- In 1824 he was appointed to the equivalent of Swedish ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and served in Istanbul until 1830.
- Löwenhielm detested his assignment to Turkey and considered the time there a waste of years.
- He nonetheless managed to accomplish a deal with the Ottoman government through which Swedish merchant ships were allowed to pass through the Bosphorus.
- After his years in Turkey, Löwenhielm also worked for some years as a Swedish envoy to the Imperial Court in Vienna.In 1840 Löwenhielm married in Vienna Countess Natalie Alexandra von Buxhoeveden (1814-1867), a granddaughter of Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden.
- This time the marriage was a happy one, and as Löwenhielm had inherited a large sum of money from his father he retired from diplomatic duties and settles in Värmland on the family estate.
- He served as County Governor of Gothenburg and Bohus County between 1843 and 1845 and later again served as a military officer.
- During the First Schleswig War, he commanded the contingent of volunteers from Sweden and Norway fighting for Denmark in the war with success.
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