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Sten Lewenhaupt

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Swedish nobleman, diplomat and archivist (1882–1969) Not to be confused with Carl Mauritz Lewenhaupt.

High Well-born CountSten LewenhauptKVO2kl FVRK RNO
Photograph of Lewenhaupt, unknown date.
Born(1882-02-27)27 February 1882
Östra Vingåker Parish, Södermanland, Sweden
Died7 September 1969(1969-09-07) (aged 87)
Katrineholm Parish, Södermanland, Sweden
Spouses
Signe Wilhelmina Lindgren ​ ​(m. 1933; died 1945)​
Martha Elvira Crafoord ​ ​(m. 1946; died 1951)​
Christina Elisabeth Wilhelmina Dyrssen ​ ​(m. 1953; died 1969)​
FamilyLewenhaupt family
AwardsSee honours

Sten Mauritz Carl Lewenhaupt (27 February 1882 – 7 September 1969) 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 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.

The comital coat of arms of the Lewenhaupt family.

By birth, he was a member of the Lewenhaupt family as the son of Claes Axel August Lewenhaupt (1854–1932) and Louise Carolina Lewenhaupt (1856–1933), daughter of Adam Casimir Lewenhaupt (1820–1895). He married three times. First on 13 August 1933 with Signe Wilhelmina Lindgren (1888–1945), daughter of Karl Johan Lewenhaupt (born c. 1823–1883). A year after her death, he remarried on 3 March 1946 with Martha Elvira Crafoord (1903–1951), daughter of Knut Georg Eugen Georgsson Crafoord (1866–1945). After her death, he remarried again on 24 June 1953 with Christina Elisabeth Wilhelmina Dyrssen (nicknamed "Stina"; 1991–1969), daughter of Valdemar Christian Dyrssen (1852–1931). She died only eight months before he did.

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