Draft:Otto Gustaf Nordenskiöld
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Otto Gustaf Nordensköld, born on 9 December 1780 at Frugård in Finland, died on 6 December 1861 in Karlskrona, was a Swedish baron and naval officer, grandson of Carl Fredrik Nordenskjöld the Elder and son of Colonel in the Fortification Adolf Gustaf Nordenskjöld (died 1821). He married in 1808 in Karlskrona with Anna Fredrika Lidströmer (1786–1842), daughter of the inventor and lieutenant colonel Jonas Lidströmer.
Biography
[edit]Nordensköld became a 1795 ensign in the navy, participated in and led numerous naval expeditions, and tested both at home and abroad in the art of war. A position in the British Navy in 1799 was interrupted at the beginning of 1801 by the breaking of peace between Great Britain and the Nordic powers, during which Nordensköld was held as a prisoner of war in England. During the Finnish War 1808–1809, he served as a flag adjutant in the first year and in 1809 as the first flag adjutant in the expedition to Västerbotten. During the war operations in Norway 1814, Nordensköld commanded a frigate squadron that was tasked with blockading the Norwegian coast. He was promoted to rear admiral in 1821 and called to serve as the head of the Navy's Administration in 1837, but returned to Karlskrona in 1841 as the commanding admiral and commander-in-chief. In the meantime, he had been promoted to vice admiral in 1840 and made a baron in 1841. In 1845, he was promoted to admiral and retired from service in 1846. At the noble estate's negotiations at the parliaments, Nordensköld passionately defended the so-called Great Fleet. He was a member of the naval defense committees appointed in 1826 and 1841 and a member of the Union Committee from 1839–1841, as well as a member of the Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences.
Sources
[edit]Nordenskiöld, 6. Otto Gustaf in Nordisk familjebok , Second edition, 1913