Sweden
place · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Aswaj · اسوج
in the texts
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The kingdom of Sweden, cited as a place where torture has been abolished.
They have been acknowledged in Sweden, where torture has been abolished.
The Rights of War and Peace
Kingdom that employed Grotius as ambassador.
Gustavus Adolphus, the king of Sweden, before his death on the battlefield of Lützen, had commended Grotius to his great Chancellor, Oxenstiern.
Queen Christina of Sweden, a patroness of scholars, desirous of aiding Grotius and of retaining him in the service of her kingdom, made many offers and promises, but their execution being deferred, he became impatient of his lot, refused a position as counselor of state, and resolved to leave the country.
It is a tradition, but incapable of satisfactory proof, that it was with the purpose of being present at the councils of this congress that the author of “De Jure Belli ac Pacis“ left Sweden for Germany.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The northern kingdom whose king Gustavus Adolphus bore the European by-name Lion of the North, cited as a parallel to the Arabic lion by-names.
[35] (2) The Franks give Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, the by-name of the Lion of the North.
History of Modern Philosophy from Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time
Sweden is listed as a region covered in the chapter on philosophy outside Germany.
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Holland