Count Gustaf Philip Creutz (May 1, 1731 – October 30, 1785), was a Swedish statesman, diplomat and poet. Events 305 - Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor. Year 1731 ( MDCCXXXI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 637 - Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge. Year 1785 ( MDCCLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common He was born in Finland and after concluding his studies in Åbo he received a post in the Privy Council Chancery at Stockholm in 1751. Sweden–Finland is a historiographical term used especially in Finland, to refer to the Swedish Kingdom from the Kalmar Union to the Turku, in Swedish Åbo ( pronounced,) is a city and the original capital of Finland on the southwest coast of Finland at the The High Council of Sweden or Council of the Realm (in Swedish Riksrådet until 1687 sometimes Latinised as Senatus Regni Sueciae) consisted originally ('stɔkhɔlm is Sweden 's Capital and its largest City. It is the site of the national Swedish government, the parliament, and the Here he met Count Gyllenborg, with whom his name is indissolubly connected. They were closely allied with Mrs. Nordenflycht, and their works were published in common; to their own generation they seemed equal in fame, but posterity has given the palm of genius to Creutz. Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht ( November 28, 1718 &ndash June 29, 1763) was a Swedish Poet, feminist and
His greatest work is contained in the 1762 volume, the idyll of Atis och Camille; the exquisite little pastoral entitled Daphne was published at the same time, and Gyllenborg was the first to proclaim the supremacy of his friend. Year 1762 ( MDCCLXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year
In 1763 Creutz practically closed his poetical career; he went to Spain as ambassador, and after three years to Paris in the same capacity. Year 1763 ( MDCCLXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. In 1783 Gustav III recalled him and heaped honours upon him, but he died soon after. Gustav III ( – 29 March 1792) was King of Sweden from 1771 until his death
Atis och Camilla was long the most admired poem in the Swedish language; it is written in a spirit of pastoral which is now to some degree faded, but in comparison with most of the other productions of the time it is freshness itself. Swedish ( is a North Germanic language spoken by more than nine million people predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the Creutz introduced a melody and grace into the Swedish tongue which it lacked before, and he has been styled the last artificer of the language.
See Creutz och Gyllenborgs Vitterhetsarbeten (Stockholm, 1795).