Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An haife shi a ranar 15 ga Afrilu 1659 a wani sansanin soja na Sweden kusa da Copenhagen
Ka yi haƙuri. Ya halarci Jami'ar Lund, Rostock, Wittenberg da Uppsala, da farko ya bi aiki a fagen diflomasiyya, amma ya sami wannan aikin ba shi da kyau. Daga nan ya zama soja, ya yi aiki a rundunar sojojin Austriya da Turkawa, kuma a karkashin William III a Holland. Ya koma Sweden a shekara ta 1697. Lokacin da Babban Yakin Arewa ya ɓarke, an sanya shi a matsayin kwamandan sabuwar rundunar sojojin soja. Ya kasance daya daga cikin 'yan kwamandojin da suka yi nasara a kan' yan Rasha a yankin Baltic yayin da Sarki Charles XII ke yaƙi a Poland da Saxony. A cikin 1705 Lewenhaupt ya ci yaƙin Gemauerthof kuma aka nada shi Gwamnan Riga. A shekara ta 1708, an umurce shi da ya yi tafiya zuwa gabas tare da ginshiƙan kayan aiki, don tallafawa sojojin mamaye na farko na Charles a Rasha. Wannan ya haifar da yakin Lesnaya (1708), inda aka ci shi da kuma tilasta masa barin kayan aikinsa. A shekara ta 1709, bayan da ya haɗu da rundunar Sarki, an ba Lewenhaupt umurnin sojojin soja a cikin mummunan yakin Poltava (1709) da kuma mika wuya a Perevolochna. An tsare shi a fursuna a Rasha, kuma ya zauna a Moscow har zuwa mutuwarsa a ranar 12 ga Fabrairu 1719.