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19th-century Swedish diplomat and nobleman
Count
Carl Axel Lowenhielm
(3 November 1772 ? 9 June 1861) was a
Swedish
military officer, diplomat, and politician.
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He was an illegitimate son of King
Charles XIII of Sweden
and
Augusta von Fersen
(married to the Chancellor of the Royal Court Fredrik Adolf Lowenhielm) and a half-brother of general and diplomat
Gustaf Lowenhielm
.
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Lowenhielm participated in the war operations in
Finland
in 1788?1790, in
Pomerania
in 1807, on the Norwegian border and on
Aland
in 1809. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1808, in 1812 to the General Adjuster, in 1814 to Major General and in 1815 to the Lieutenant-General. Lowenhielm was a member of the Swedish cabinet between 1822?1839 and represented Sweden at the
Congress of Vienna
.
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