SWEDEN SAMUEL GUSTAF HERMELIN SILVER MEDAL 1800 - 60g, 50mm
Samuel Gustaf Hermelin
(4 April 1744,
Stockholm
– 4 March 1820) was a
Swedish
industrialist
,
diplomat
and
cartographer
. Samuel Gustaf also belonged to the
Swedish nobility
. He attended the
University of Uppsala
for
mining
. In 1782, he went to the
United States
to study the mining operations and served as
the first Swedish ambassador
to the United States. He eventually moved back to
Sweden
and owned a mining company in
Lapland
.
Samuel Gustaf was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
in 1784.
In 1785, he was elected an international member of the
American Philosophical Society
in Philadelphia.
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