Oxenstierna

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Ox·en·stier·na

also Ox·en·stjer·na (o͝ok′sən-shĕr′nə, ŏk′-), Count Axel Gustafsson 1583-1654.

Swedish politician who virtually ruled Sweden as leader of the council of regency during the minority of Christina (1632-1644).

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Oxenstierna

(Swedish ˈuksənʃæːrna) or

Oxenstjerna

(Biography) Count Axel (ˈaksəl). 1583–1654, Swedish statesman. He was chancellor (1612–54) and successfully directed Swedish foreign policy for most of the Thirty Years' War

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References in periodicals archive ?

(16.) Kinsten A, Hanson LM, Hyde M, Oxenstierna G, Westerlund H, Theorell T.

Perceived occupational hazards among cash-in-transit guards/ Percepcao dos riscos profissionais em trabalhadores de transporte de valores

(84.) Joseph Trevithick, "Russia's Plans for New Nuclear Carriers and Destroyers Delayed Indefinitely," War Zone, March 27, 2017, www .thedrive.com/; Gady, "Russia's Navy to Field 2 New Guided Missile Warships by 2020"; Susanne Oxenstierna, "Russia's Defense Spending and the Economic Decline," Journal of Eurasian Studies 1 (2016), pp.

NATIONALISM, GEOPOLITICS, AND NAVAL EXPANSIONISM: From the Nineteenth Century to the Rise of China

[24.] Theorell T, Oxenstierna G, Westerlund H, Ferrie J, Hagberg J, Alfredsson L.

DO ALL TYPES OF RESTRUCTURING THREATEN EMPLOYEES' WELL-BEING? AN EXPLORATORY STUDY

[9.] Oxenstierna G, Magnusson Hanson LL, Widmark M, Finnholm K, Stenfors C, Elofsson S, et al.

DETERMINANTS OF SELF-RATED HEALTH OF A WORKING POPULATION/CZYNNIKI WPLYWAJACE NA SAMOOCENE STANU ZDROWIA OSOB PRACUJACYCH

Riyadh immediately encouraged an intensification of the dialogue between it and Sunni mujahideen groups, promising further financial aid and the donation of mosques, schools, and teachers (Oxenstierna 1992).

Afghanistan in the foreign policies of Middle Eastern countries

[2.] Stenfors CU, Magnusson Hanson L, Oxenstierna G, Theorell T, Nilsson LG.

Learning, memory & executive function in female BPO employees exposed to regular shifts

Axel Oxenstierna: Ya, but ve are not goot citizens und derefore pay no taxes.

Further Ruminations From The Kaiser Bunker

Other important writers, who are included in the present volume, are Carl Michael Bellman (1740-1795), Bengt Lidner (1757-1793) and Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna (1750-1818).

Introduction to special issue of Swedish literature studies

Sellin begins Chapter 4 by detecting in Le Bon's Latin letter to Axel Oxenstierna a misreading.

Sellin, Paul R., Treasure, Treason and the Tower: El Dorado and the Murder of Sir Walter Raleigh

A couple of months before Fleurus, Stenbock had married the Countess Eva Magdalena of the powerful Oxenstierna family.

The count and the spy: Magnus Stenbock, the Swedish aristocrat and war hero, lived his life in pursuit of honour. Yet, as Andreas Marklund reveals, he died in disgrace, broken by the schemes of a cunning spy

(1) For propositions of such procedures see for example (Oxenstierna, 1999; Bejger, 2009).