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Carl Gustaf Wrangel

1613 - 1676

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Fältmarskalk Carl Gustaf Wrangel (also Carl Gustav von Wrangel; 23 December 1613 – 5 July 1676) was a Swedish statesman and military commander who commanded the Swedish forces in the Thirty Years' War, as well as the Torstenson, Bremen, Second Northern and Scanian Wars. A Baltic German, he held the ranks of a Field Marshal, Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish forces in Germany (1646–1648), and Lord High Admiral of Sweden (from 1657). Wrangel was Governor-General of Swedish Pomerania (1648–1652 and 1656–1676) and, from 1664, Lord High Constable of Sweden and a member of the Privy Council. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Gustaf Wrangel has received more than 128,212 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Carl Gustaf Wrangel is the 567th most popular military personnel (down from 475th in 2019), the 200th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 169th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Carl Gustaf Wrangel ranks 567 out of 2,058. Before him are Adolf Heusinger, Jisaburō Ozawa, Saburō Sakai, Kenji Doihara, Raymond A. Spruance, and Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon. After him are Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Oghul Qaimish, Otto Kumm, Filipp Golikov, Georg Stumme, and Woodes Rogers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1613, Carl Gustaf Wrangel ranks 7. Before him are François de La Rochefoucauld, Gerrit Dou, André Le Nôtre, Claude Perrault, John George II, Elector of Saxony, and Mattia Preti. After him are Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Jean François Paul de Gondi, Bartholomeus van der Helst, Khushal Khattak, Luisa de Guzmán, and Gaspard Dughet. Among people deceased in 1676, Carl Gustaf Wrangel ranks 11. Before him are Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Pasha, Francesco Cavalli, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Madame de Brinvilliers, Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, and Claudia Felicitas of Austria. After him are Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg, Paul Gerhardt, Francis I Rákóczi, Abraham Bosse, Saib Tabrizi, and Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Carl Gustaf Wrangel ranks 200 out of 1,879. Before him are John I of Sweden (1201), Michael Nyqvist (1960), Sverker II of Sweden (1164), Sten Sture the Younger (1493), Ingvar Carlsson (1934), and Nicolai Gedda (1925). After him are Markus Persson (1979), Birger, King of Sweden (1280), Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722), Knut Wicksell (1851), Gunnar Asplund (1885), and Per Olov Enquist (1934).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Sweden

Among military personnels born in Sweden, Carl Gustaf Wrangel ranks 3. Before him are Charles X Gustav of Sweden (1622), and Axel von Fersen the Younger (1755). After him are Johan Banér (1596), Gustav Horn, Count of Pori (1592), Magnus Stenbock (1664), Henri Saint Cyr (1902), Gustaf Dyrssen (1891), and Hans von Rosen (1888).

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