Sten Lewenhaupt


Sten Mauritz Carl Lewenhaupt was a Swedish nobleman, diplomat and archivist.

Biography

He first intended to join the cavalry, but opted to study humanities at Uppsala University instead. In 1809, he was promotad attaché of the Ministry for [Foreign Affairs (Sweden)|Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden] and published registers and collections of treaties, including editor of Utrikesdepartementets kalender, for many years. The history of chivalric orders and people, was his main area of interest. His sense for cadastral data made Svenska högre ämbetsmän från 1634 an extraordinary resource to historians and other researchers. He was also an archivist, and later librarian, of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and was made head of the Office of Encipherment in 1919. In 1947, he retired and moved back to his province of origin.
By birth, he was a member of the Lewenhaupt family as the son of Claes Axel August Lewenhaupt and Louise Carolina Lewenhaupt, daughter of Adam Casimir Lewenhaupt. He married three times. First on 13 August 1933 with Signe Wilhelmina Lindgren, daughter of Karl Johan Lewenhaupt. A year after her death, he remarried on 3 March 1946 with Martha Elvira Crafoord, daughter of Knut Georg Eugen Georgsson Crafoord. After her death, he remarried again on 24 June 1953 with Christina Elisabeth Wilhelmina Dyrssen, daughter of Valdemar Christian Dyrssen. She died only eight months before he did.

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