Swedish Argentines
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Swedish Argentines are
. The history of Swedish settlement in Argentina took place principally in the mid to late 19th century, when Swedish people arrived in Argentina. Many Swedes came to Argentina for economic reasons and in order to start a new life. Swedes also helped build Argentina, in particular helping to build Argentina's railroads in the mid 19th century.The first Swedes to arrive in Argentina were registered as new converts by
Argentina is home to the largest Swedish community in Latin America.[citation needed]
History
In 1845 Sweden formally recognized Argentine sovereignty and shortly afterwards the warships Lagerbjelke and Eugenie paid a visit to the new country while also checking out trade routes on the South American continent. They happened to arrive in Buenos Aires just in time for the rebellion against Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas. But the travel accounts written by two naval officers aboard were as much, if not more, about the beautiful porteña women of Buenos Aires, as they were about the dramatic political events taking place.
Misiones Swedes
Swedes were drawn to the province
The new arrivals to Brazil soon discovered that the recruitment officers propaganda was nothing more than empty promises. Around 1913 word started going around that across the border, in the Argentinian territory of Misiones, the land was more fertile and the government was providing incentives for farmers to grow a profitable cash crop known as the green gold – yerba mate.
Two contingents of emigrants made the voyage south. In 1890–91, most of the 2 000 were workers and families from the crisis-ridden industries in Stockholm and Sundsvall. In 1909–11, most of the 700 were miners from the far north who left after the failure of a nationwide strike. The first Swedes to cross the border to Argentina found not only Brazilian, Paraguayan and German colonists, but also a group of Finnish intellectuals who had fled their country in 1906 for political reasons. After the town of Oberá was officially founded in 1928, the Swedes soon became a minority, but as they had come first there are today neighbourhoods that carry the names of those pioneering farmers – Villa Kindgren, Villa Fredriksson, Villa Erasmie.
In 1914 ten men cleared a 20-kilometre path (picada) through the jungle between the first Swedish settlement, Villa Svea and a German colony. The road is still known as the Picada Sueca. Around 500 Swedes were estimated to have settled in the area by the 1920s and they organized a school, an ethnic-based association and a congregation.
Swedes in Argentina today
In September many Swedish descendants still participate in the Oberá Immigrants Festival.
The Swedish Club
The Swedish Club is located in Buenos Aires. It is centrally located in the seven-story Sweden House which also housed the
Notable Swedes in Argentina
Henrik Åberg and Carl August Kihlberg
Henrik Åberg (Enrique Aberg)[1] and Carl August Kihlberg (Carlos Kihlberg) were the designers of the Presidential palace of Argentina, the Casa Rosada. They were also appointed as Argentina's first (and only) national architects in 1875; Åberg also drew the blueprints for various hospitals, the Museum of National History in La Plata, and the José de San Martín mausoleum inside Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral on Plaza de Mayo.
Scientists
Among the first Swedes to step ashore in Argentina were
Evert Taube
For many people in Sweden, Argentina is both a familiar and a mythological place brought to life by the lyrics of the popular singer-songwriter Evert Taube who lived in the South American country for five years between 1910 and 1915. Contrary to widespread perceptions, Taube did not work as a gaucho (cowboy) on the Pampas but as a foreman supervising workers who were digging canals designed to prevent flooding on the vast plains.[citation needed]
David Emanuel Wahlberg
David Emanuel Wahlberg was a Swedish sports writer and editor who covered the 1912 Summer Olympics and became president of the sports organization LAIF from 1937 to 1939.[2][3] In 1923 he became a pastor in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[4][5][6][7] On 15 September 1927, his wife Jenny Katarina Wågberg died and on 28 February 1929, he left Argentina with his four children and returned to Sweden where he married his housekeeper, Bertha Debora Engström. He worked for a few different congregations until 1936 when he moved to Långsele.[3]
Swedes born in Argentina and Argentine people of Swedish descent
- Dagmar Hagelin, disappeared student
- Carla Peterson, actress
- Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, film director
- Jennifer Dahlgren, hammer thrower
See also
- Argentine-Swedish relations
- Argentines of European descent
- Danish Argentines
- Finnish Argentines
Notes
- ^ Article Archived 21 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine on Åberg in Nordisk Familjebok.
- ^ LAIF (in Swedish).
- ^ ISBN 9789172220874. Archivedfrom the original on 18 April 2023. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
David Wahlberg hade blivit uppmärksammad för sin insats som föreståndare för ... David Wahlberg lyckades stabilisera verksamheten i Buenos Aires men genom ...
- ^ "De verkar te å gå bakåt": språk, etnicitet och identitet belyst utifrån. 2002.
... från Buenos Aires (bland dem David Wahlberg, ej Wallgren s. ...
- ^ Eric Einar Ekstrand (1944). Jorden runt på trettio år (in Swedish).
Knappt hade de tre resenärerna lämnat Buenos Aires, förr än pastor David Wahlberg, sedermera kyrkoherde i ...
- ISBN 9789185894321.
- ISBN 9788770032513. Archivedfrom the original on 7 April 2023. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
... David Emanuel Wahlberg från Sundsvall- .21) Denne hade avlagt examen för Master of Arts 1904 i Augustana College and Theological Seminary. ...