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Lennart Torstensson

1603 - 1651

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Lennart Torstensson, Count of Ortala, Baron of Virestad (17 August 1603 – 7 April 1651), was a Swedish Field Marshal and military engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lennart Torstensson has received more than 100,412 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Lennart Torstensson is the 30th most popular engineer (up from 34th in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 109th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Engineer.

Lennart Torstensson is most famous for his military victories in the Thirty Years War.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Lennart Torstensson ranks 30 out of 323Before him are Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Philo of Byzantium, Albert Göring, August Horch, José Echegaray, and Hugo Junkers. After him are Jiro Horikoshi, Theodore von Kármán, Villard de Honnecourt, Felix Wankel, Pavel Sukhoi, and Howard H. Aiken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1603, Lennart Torstensson ranks 4Before him are Abel Tasman, Joseph of Cupertino, and Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur. After him are Adam Olearius, Aert van der Neer, Michel Le Tellier, Yerofey Khabarov, Francesco Furini, Marco Uccellini, Fasilides, and Johannes Cocceius. Among people deceased in 1651, Lennart Torstensson ranks 3Before him are Kösem Sultan and Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria. After him are Tokugawa Iemitsu, Abraham Bloemaert, Giulia Tofana, Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Tugay Bey, Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, Virginia Centurione Bracelli, Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg, and Ngawang Namgyal.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Lennart Torstensson ranks 105 out of 1,612Before him are Princess Birgitta of Sweden (1937), Bertil Ohlin (1899), Arvid Carlsson (1923), Peter Stormare (1953), Roy Andersson (1943), and Tomas Lindahl (1938). After him are Sverker I of Sweden (1100), Stefan Löfven (1957), Ingemar Stenmark (1956), Carin Göring (1888), Kai Siegbahn (1918), and Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland (1884).

Among ENGINEERS In Sweden

Among engineers born in Sweden, Lennart Torstensson ranks 1After him are Gustaf de Laval (1845), Harry Nyquist (1889), Erik Dahlbergh (1625), and Johan August Brinell (1849).