Lovisa von Burghausen [SEP] date of birth
Lovisa von Burghausen
Lovisa von Burghausen (1698 – 20 January 1733) was a Swedish memoirist who became famous for her story about her time in captivity as a slave in Russia after being taken prisoner by the Russians during the Great Northern War. She was sold as a slave several times before she eventually recovered her freedom, and her story became perhaps the most famous of the many stories of Carolinian fates of this period.
Kidnapped.
Lovisa was born in the city of Narva in Swedish Estonia, one of five
- Lovisa of Sweden, Queen of Denmark
- Lovisa Ulrika of Prussia, Queen of Sweden
Artists
- Lovisa Augusti, opera singer, member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music
- Brigitte Lovisa Fouché, artist
- Greta Lovisa Gustafsson (aka Greta Garbo), actress
Other famous people
- Lovisa Åhrberg, doctor and surgeon
- Lovisa von Burghausen, Swedish prisoner of war, known for her life as a slave in Russia
- Sofia Lovisa Gråå, educator and principal
- Agatha