Sven Hedin
1865 – 1952 · aged 87
Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator (1865-1952)
- Born
- 19 Feb 1865 · Klara Church Parish
- Died
- 26 Nov 1952 · Kungsholm parish
Life timeline
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- 19 Feb 1865BornBorn in Klara Church Parish
- 1898AwardFounder’s Medal
- 1898AwardVega Medal
- 1902AwardLivingstone Medal
- 1903AwardVictoria Medal
- 1904AwardCullum Geographical Medal
- 1904AwardGrande Médaille d'Or des Explorations
- 1909AwardAlexander von Humboldt Medal
- 1909AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Oxford
- 1909AwardHonorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge
- 1909AwardKnight Grand Officer of the Order of the Polar Star
- 1913 – 1952RoleSeat 6 of the Swedish Academy
- 1918AwardCarl-Ritter-Medal
- 1925AwardCothenius Medal
- 26 Nov 1952DiedDied in Kungsholm parish
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1865 – 1952).
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
Biography
Sven Anders Hedin, KNO1kl RVO, (19 February 1865 – 26 November 1952) was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator of his own works. During four expeditions to Central Asia, he made the Transhimalaya known in the West and located sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej Rivers. He also mapped lake Lop Nur, and the remains of cities, grave sites and the Great Wall of China in the deserts of the Tarim Basin. In his book Från pol till pol (From Pole to Pole), Hedin describes a journey through Asia and Europe between the late 1880s and the early 1900s. While traveling, Hedin visited Turkey, the Caucasus, Tehran, Iraq, lands of the Kyrgyz people and the Russian Far East, India, China and Japan. The posthumous publication of his Central Asia Atlas marked the conclusion of his life's work.
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