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BARON GUSTAF ADOLF REUTERHOLM (1756-1...

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 211 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON GUSTAF ADOLF See also:REUTERHOLM (1756-1813)  , See also:Swedish statesman . After a brief military career he was appointed Kammerherr to See also:Sophia Magdalena, See also:queen See also:consort of Gustavus III., and subsequently became intimately connected with the See also:king's See also:brother, See also:Charles, then See also:duke of Sudermania . He remained in the background throughout the reign of Gustavus III., whom he constantly opposed and by whom he was imprisoned along with the other malcontents in 1789 . He was abroad at the See also:time of the king's See also:death, but a See also:summons from his friend, now duke See also:regent, speedily recalled him, and in 1793 he was made a member of the See also:council of See also:state and one of the " lords of the See also:realm." At first he seemed inclined to adopt a liberal See also:system, and reintroduced the freedom of the See also:press . I-Ie did this solely, however, to See also:reverse the Gustavian system, and persecuted the stalwarts of the See also:late king (e.g . G . M . See also:Armfelt, J . K . See also:Toll) with a See also:petty vindictiveness which excited See also:general disgust . Towards the end of the regency, See also:Reuterholm inclined towards an See also:alliance with See also:Russia on the basis of a See also:marriage between the See also:young king, Gustavus IV., and the empress See also:Catherine's granddaughter, Alexandra Pavlovna, an alliance frustrated by the bigotry of the intended See also:groom . At See also:home the Swedish See also:government ended as ultra-reactionary, owing to an insignificant See also:riot in See also:Stockholm which so alarmed Reuterholm that he threatened all printers who printed anything See also:relating to the constitutions of the See also:French See also:republic or the See also:United States of See also:America with the loss of their privileges .

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March 1795 he closed the Swedish See also:Academy because A . G . Silfverstolpe in his inaugural address had ventured to disapprove of the coup d'etat of 1789 . On the See also:accession of Gustavus IV . (See also:November 1st, 1796) Reuterholm was expelled from Stockholm . For the next twelve years he lived abroad under the name of Tempelcrentz . After the revolution of 1809 he returned to See also:Sweden, but was denied all See also:access to Charles XIII., and quitted his See also:country for See also:good . He died in See also:Schleswig on the 27th of See also:December 1813 . See Sveriges Historia (Stockholm, 1877-1881), vol. v . (R . N .

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