Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm
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Baron Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm (7 July 1756 in
Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
between 1792 and 1796.
Early career
After a brief military career he was appointed Kammarherre to Sophia Magdalena,
Sveaborg
.
He was implicated in the
Swedish Constitution of 1772, which she saw as a good tool for an enlightened aristocracy, and the war and the Union and Security Act had made her a leading part of the opposition. She cooperated with Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland, and Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm.[2] The plan was to force Charles to act as a symbol of the opposition to the Union and Security Act when the time was right.[2] When the time arrived to make Charles act, however, he refused, which effectively discontinued the coup.[2]
He, along with the other malcontents, was imprisoned by Gustav III in 1789.
Ruler of Sweden
He was abroad at the time of the king's death, but a summons from his friend, now duke regent, speedily recalled him, and in 1793 he was made a member of the
Gustavian Party
.
Towards the end of the regency, Reuterholm inclined towards an alliance with
Alexandra Pavlovna, an alliance frustrated by the bigotry of the intended groom. At home the Swedish government ended as ultra-reactionary, owing to an insignificant riot in Stockholm which so alarmed Reuterholm that he threatened all printers who printed anything relating to the constitutions of the French Republic or the United States of America with the loss of their privileges. In March 1795 he closed the Swedish Academy because A. G. Silfverstolpe in his inaugural address had ventured to disapprove of the coup d'état of 1789.[1]
In 1796 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Expulsion
On the accession of
Schleswig on 27 December 1813[1] and was buried in Strängnäs Cathedral
in Sweden.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Reuterholm, Gustaf Adolf, Baron". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 211. This work in turn cites:
- Sveriges Historia (Stockholm, 1877-1881), vol. v.
