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Swedish Argentines areArgentine citizens ofSwedish descent, as well as Swedish-born people who reside inArgentina.The history ofSwedish settlement in Argentina took place principally in the mid to late 19th century, when Swedish people arrived in Argentina. Many Swedes came to Argentina for economic reasons and in order to start a new life. Swedes also helped build Argentina, in particular helping to build Argentina's railroads in the mid 19th century.
The first Swedes to arrive in Argentina were registered as new converts byJesuits in Córdoba in 1763. Many of the Swedes who showed up during the first half of the 19th century were adventurers who fought in thecivil war between theUnitarians andFederalists (on both sides). A good number of them were sons of prominent families who were fleeing a debt or had some other reason to make themselves scarce. They became the black sheep of the Pampas.[citation needed][clarification needed] Back home innorthern Sweden, they had hunted moose. InMisiones Province's subtropical rainforest, they huntedtapir.
Argentina is home to the largest Swedish community inLatin America.[citation needed]
In 1845 Sweden formally recognized Argentine sovereignty and shortly afterwards the warshipsLagerbjelke andEugenie paid a visit to the new country while also checking out trade routes on theSouth American continent. They happened to arrive in Buenos Aires just in time for the rebellion against GovernorJuan Manuel de Rosas. But the travel accounts written by two naval officers aboard were as much, if not more, about the beautifulporteña women of Buenos Aires, as they were about the dramatic political events taking place.
Swedes were drawn to the provinceMisiones at the beginning of the 20th century, at the prospect of growingyerba mate, used to make the herbal tea that is Argentina's national favourite drink. They moved from Brazil, where they had been lured by German-based recruitment offices.
The new arrivals to Brazil soon discovered that the recruitment officers propaganda was nothing more than empty promises. Around 1913 word started going around that across the border, in the Argentinian territory of Misiones, the land was more fertile and the government was providing incentives for farmers to grow a profitable cash crop known as the green gold – yerba mate.
Two contingents of emigrants made the voyage south. In 1890–91, most of the 2 000 were workers and families from the crisis-ridden industries inStockholm andSundsvall. In 1909–11, most of the 700 were miners from the far north who left after the failure of a nationwide strike. The first Swedes to cross the border to Argentina found not only Brazilian,Paraguayan and German colonists, but also a group ofFinnish intellectuals who had fled their country in 1906 for political reasons. After the town ofOberá was officially founded in 1928, the Swedes soon became a minority, but as they had come first there are today neighbourhoods that carry the names of those pioneering farmers –Villa Kindgren,Villa Fredriksson,Villa Erasmie.
In 1914 ten men cleared a 20-kilometre path (picada) through the jungle between the first Swedish settlement,Villa Svea and a German colony. The road is still known as thePicada Sueca. Around 500 Swedes were estimated to have settled in the area by the 1920s and they organized a school, an ethnic-based association and a congregation.
In September many Swedish descendants still participate in theOberá Immigrants Festival.
The Swedish Club is located in Buenos Aires. It is centrally located in the seven-story Sweden House which also housed theSwedish Embassy between 1996 and 2016, and the Swedish ArgentineChamber of Commerce. In the Asociación Sueca restaurant and bar Swedish lunches are provided. Svenska Föreningen was founded in 1898 by a group of Swedish professionals. The Society had several different homes until the Swedish shipping magnateAxel Axelsson Johnson made a substantial donation for a building in 1920.
Henrik Åberg (Enrique Aberg)[1] andCarl August Kihlberg (Carlos Kihlberg) were the designers of thePresidential palace of Argentina, theCasa Rosada. They were also appointed as Argentina's first (and only) national architects in 1875; Åberg also drew the blueprints for various hospitals, the Museum of National History inLa Plata, and theJosé de San Martín mausoleum insideBuenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral onPlaza de Mayo.
Among the first Swedes to step ashore in Argentina wereDaniel Solander andAnders Sparrman. They were disciples of botanistCarl von Linné and accompaniedCaptain Cook on his world expeditions to pick exotic flowers and record anomalies. Several other Nordic scientists were drawn to this area at the beginning of the century. Most remembered among them all is the geologist and polar explorerOtto Nordenskjöld who, along with his crew, survived two winters inAntarctica after a shipwreck. The Argentine government pulled off a successful rescue expedition in 1903. Thousands of people in Buenos Aires celebrated the return of the marine officials and the Swedish scientists. Today the vessel used in the rescue, thecorvetteUruguay, is a floating museum in Dock 1 ofPuerto Madero.[citation needed]
For many people in Sweden, Argentina is both a familiar and a mythological place brought to life by the lyrics of the popular singer-songwriterEvert Taube who lived in the South American country for five years between 1910 and 1915. Contrary to widespread perceptions, Taube did not work as agaucho (cowboy) on thePampas but as a foreman supervising workers who were digging canals designed to prevent flooding on the vast plains.[citation needed]
David Emanuel Wahlberg was a Swedish sports writer and editor who covered the1912 Summer Olympics and became president of the sports organization LAIF from 1937 to 1939.[2][3] In 1923 he became a pastor inBuenos Aires, Argentina.[4][5][6][7] On 15 September 1927, his wife Jenny Katarina Wågberg died and on 28 February 1929, he left Argentina with his four children and returned to Sweden where he married his housekeeper, Bertha Debora Engström. He worked for a few different congregations until 1936 when he moved toLångsele.[3]
David Wahlberg hade blivit uppmärksammad för sin insats som föreståndare för ... David Wahlberg lyckades stabilisera verksamheten i Buenos Aires men genom ...
... från Buenos Aires (bland dem David Wahlberg, ej Wallgren s. ...
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... David Emanuel Wahlberg från Sundsvall- .21) Denne hade avlagt examen för Master of Arts 1904 i Augustana College and Theological Seminary. ...
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