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Name: Gustavus, III
Birth Date: January 24, 1746
Death Date: March 29, 1792
Nationality: Swedish
Gender: Male
Occupations: king

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Biography of Gustavus, III
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Gustavus III (1746-1792) was king of Sweden from 1771 to 1792. He was an enlightened despot and a philosophe. Born on Jan. 24, 1746, Gustavus III was the eldest son of Adolphus Frederick, an ineffectual king of Sweden, and Louisa Ulrika, the sister of...


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Gustav III (24 January [O.S. 13 January] 1746 – 29 March 1792Note on dates) was King of Sweden from 1771 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, sister of Frederick the Great. As he...


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History Today
Gustav III of Sweden: the forgotten despot of the age of enlightenment: A.D. Harvey recalls the career of the Swedish king whose assassination inspired a famous opera.
12/01/2003: 3,760 words, approx. 13 pages
GUSTAV III OF Sweden (1746-92) is one of the least studied of the later eighteenth-century rulers known as the Enlightened Despots. He was not a great general like Frederick II of Prussia or a great empire-builder like Catherine II of Russia, nor did...
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The Magazine Antiques
Gustavian divan rooms.(King Gustav III)
02/01/2006: 3,879 words, approx. 13 pages
Divan is today the name of a type of luxurious sofa covered by fine fabrics and lavishly filled with splendid cushions. (1) In late eighteenth-century Swedish architectural drawings, however, a divan is a room furnished, with a long, wide Turkish sofa that extends...
 


 

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