Ingeborg Norell [SEP] sex or gender
Ingeborg Norell
Ingeborg Norell (born 1727), was the first Finnish female to have received an official decoration and to have been the subject of a commemorative plaque. She was commemorated in recognition for her act by saving a life in Tenala in 1780.
Norell was likely the daughter of the saddle maker Hans Sten Borg, married in 1764 to the jeweler Carl Gustaf Norell (1738-1782), and had three children.
In April 1780, a two-year-old girl was rescued from the water
1727 in Sweden
Events from the year 1727 in Sweden
Incumbents.
- Monarch – Frederick I
Events.
- July - The Mauritz Vellingk affair: he is sentenced to death for contact with Russia, but the sentence is commuted.
- - The Holstein Party is dissolved.
- "Lithographiæ Svecanæ Specimen Secundum" by Magnus Bromelius is published.
Births.
- Ingeborg Norell, heroine
Deaths.
- 24 January - Magdalena Stenbock, politically active countess and salonniére (born 1649)