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Georg, Count Adlersparre

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March 28, 1760, Hovermo, Sweden
Died:
September 23, 1835, near Kristinehamn (aged 75)
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Georg, Count Adlersparre (born March 28, 1760, Hovermo, Sweden—died September 23, 1835, near Kristinehamn) was a political and social reformer who was a leader of the 1809 coup d’état that overthrew Sweden’s absolutist king Gustav IV. Holding the rank of lieutenant colonel in the army, Adlersparre led a faction of officers that, with another group, the “men of 1809,” deposed Gustav IV on March 13, 1809, after several years of planning. A liberal, Adlersparre had been moved to conspire against the monarch by Gustav’s refusal to summon a Riksdag (estates general) during a decade of excessive taxation and disastrous wars. ...(100 of 167 words)

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