Axel von Fersen the Elder
Count Fredrik Axel von Fersen (5 April 1719 – 24 April 1794)
Biography
A son of Lieutenant-General
In the
On the accession of the
He obstructed the measures of Gustav III, whom he is said to have treated with colossal insolence, for several years. There was a slight collision between them as early as the diet of 1778, but at the diet of 1786, Fersen led the opposition against the king's financial measures, which were consequently rejected. He and twenty of his friends were arrested in 1789, leading to the collapse of the opposition; however, he was quickly released and thereafter remained aloof from politics.[3]
His book Historiska Skrifter is mainly autobiographical, but its historical accounts are often biased.[3][4]
He was one of the richest men in the realm. He was the lord of four grand houses in Sweden:
Fersen was the father of
Notes
- ^ Jägerskiöld, Olof (1956). "Fredrik Axel Fersen, von". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (in Swedish). Vol. 15. Stockholm: National Archives of Sweden. p. 686.
- ^ a b c Bain 1911, p. 290.
- ^ a b Bain 1911, p. 291.
- ^ Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). Encyclopedia Americana. .
References
- public domain: Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Fersen, Fredrik Axel, Count von". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 290–291. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the