Georg, Count Adlersparre

Georg, Count Adlersparre (born March 28, 1760, Hovermo, Sweden—died September 23, 1835, near Kristinehamn) was a political and social reformer who was a leader of the 1809 coup d’état that overthrew Sweden’s absolutist king Gustav IV. Holding the rank of lieutenant colonel in the army, Adlersparre led a faction of officers that, with another group, the “men of 1809,” deposed Gustav IV on March 13, 1809, after several years of planning. A liberal, Adlersparre had...