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Campbell, Colin

Record IDcnp01363207

URIhttp://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp01363207

Gendermale

Biographical Data1686 - 1757

Last Edit2024-02-08

General Note

Geschäftsmann, Schweden

Kaufmann u. Politiker in Göteborg

Effectua de nombreuses expéditions commerciales en Asie. Ministre plénipotentiaire du Roi de Suède auprès de l'Emprereur de Chine.

More Information

Further Biographical Data1686-1757

Intellectual ResponsibilityAuteur

Primary Language(s)English

ActivityPersonen zu Wirtschaftsgeschichte (bis ca. 1900) (10.1p) (sswd)

Personen der Geschichte (Politiker und historische Persönlichkeiten) (16.5p) (sswd)

Kaufmann (gnd)

CountrySchweden

Geographic NoteSE (iso3166)

NationalitySwedish

Names

HeadingCampbell, Colin
used in: Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany

Campbell, Colin
used in: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

Sources

Found inBLC. — Svenskt biografiskt lexikon: Stand: 10.02.2021: https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=16347

Imprint SourcesA passage to China : Colin Campbell's diary of the First Swedish East India Company Expedition to Canton, 1732-33 / ed. by Paul Hallberg and Christian Koninckx, 1996

Colin Campbell (1 November 1686 - 9 May 1757) was a Scottish merchant and entrepreneur who co-founded the Swedish East India Company and was Swedish King Frederick I's first envoy to the Emperor of China. Campbell is depicted wearing the cross of the Nordstjärneorden (Order of the Polar Star) which was conferred on him in 1753, and a crowned miniature of Frederick I. A contemporary replica of the portrait (in the collection of the Nationalmuseum since the 1860s and now exhibited at Gripsholm Castle) bears a painted cartouche with text stating that the portrait depicts Campbell in his 70th year (that is, in 1756), and describing his efforts in establishing the Swedish East India Company.
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Attributed to Johan Joacim Sträng

/ Originally uploaded to en.wikipedia by Tony164 on 1 June 2007, 16:22. -- Public domain -- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J J Sträng, Portrait of Colin Campbell (1756) - 02.jpg]