Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm [SEP] place of death
Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm
Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm (17051769) was a "Freiherr" and Chamberlain ("kammarherre") in Sweden. His father was the royal adviser ("riksråd") Josias Cederhielm, and his mother was Anna Åkerhielm.
Cederhielm is perhaps best remembered today as a founding member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which was founded 1739.
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The academy was founded on 2 June 1739 by naturalist Carl Linnaeus, mercantilist Jonas Alströmer, mechanical engineer Mårten Triewald, civil servants Sten Carl Bielke and Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm, and statesman/author Anders Johan von Höpken.
The purpose of the academy was to focus on practically useful knowledge, and to publish in Swedish in order to widely disseminate the academy's findings. The academy was intended to be different from the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala, which had been founded in 1719 and published in Latin. The