Baron Johan Skytte (Nyköping 1577 – Söderåkra March 25, 1645), Swedish politician. Nyköping (nɨˈʃɶpɪŋ is a city in Södermanland, Sweden and the seat of Nyköping Municipality. Events 1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6.
Johan Skytte was son of the Mayor of Nyköping, Bengt Nilsson Skräddare. While attending school in his home town and for the nine years he was studying at foreign universities, he used the surname Schroderus, a Latinised form of the German Schröder - his father's surname - which means "tailor". A tailor is a person whose occupation is to sew and scissor menswear style jackets and the skirts or trousers that go with them
Already at his return from his foreign studies in 1602, he was hired as tutor of the young Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, the future king, and was ennobled the following year, taking the name Skytte after an extinct noble family from which he claimed descent on the maternal side. For the other Swedish kings known as Gustavus Adolphus see Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden or Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation.
He was sent to London in 1610 on a diplomatic mission, an attempt to seek the hand of Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of James I for the young prince. Elisabeth Electress Palatine and Queen of Bohemia (born Princess Elizabeth Stuart of Scotland; 19 August 1596 &ndash 13 February 1662 James VI and I (19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625 was King of Scotland as James VI, and King of England and King of Ireland as James In 1611, he was made governor of Vestmannia, in 1617 a high councillor and in 1622 chancellor of Upsala University, which he remained until his death. Uppsala University ( Swedish Uppsala universitet) is a world-class research University in Uppsala, Sweden. Skytte participated in drafting the 1617 Coronation Oath of king Gustav Adolf.
Having in 1624 been created a baron (friherre), receiving the barony of Tuutarhovi in Ingria, Livonia, which had just been added to the Swedish Realm, and in 1629 appointed Governor-General of Livonia, Ingria and Carelia, he was in 1632 appointed chancellor of the new Academia Gustaviana (University of Tartu), in addition to his Uppsala chancellorship, and made plans for a new appellate court in Tartu (in today Estonia). Baron is a specific Title of nobility. The word baron comes from Old French baron, itself from Old High German and Latin (liber For the Italian municipality see Ingria Italy. For the Brachiopod Genus, see Ingria (brachiopod. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. The term governor general or governor-general refers to a vice-regal representative of a Monarch in an independent realm or a major colonial circonscription For the Italian municipality see Ingria Italy. For the Brachiopod Genus, see Ingria (brachiopod. The University of Tartu (Tartu Ülikool Тартуский университет Universität Dorpat is a classical University in the city of Tartu, Estonia Tartu is the second largest City of Estonia. In contrast to Estonia's political and financial capital Tallinn, Tartu is often considered the intellectual Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia ( Eesti or Eesti Vabariik) is a Country in Northern Europe in the Baltic region In 1632, Skytte returned from Livonia and was in 1634 made president of the Göta appellate court (Göta hovrätt) in Jönköping. Jönköping is a city in Småland in southern Sweden with 84423 inhabitants (2005
The same year he became chancellor of Uppsala University, 1622, Skytte donated the Skyttean professorship of Eloquence and Government to the university. Uppsala University ( Swedish Uppsala universitet) is a world-class research University in Uppsala, Sweden. His own house in Uppsala, the originally medieval building called the Skytteanum, is still used by Department of Government; the professor skytteanus has his residence in an apartment in the house. Since 1995, the Skytte Foundation at Uppsala University awards an annual prize in Political Science (see Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science). The Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (in Swedish Skytteanska priset) was established in 1995 by the Johan Skytte Foundation at Uppsala University.
Of the several schools in Sweden named after Skytte, one was actually founded on the initiative of Johan Skytte, the Skyttean school (Skytteanska skolan) which was established in Lycksele in Lapland in 1631, but moved to Tärnaby in 1867. Lycksele is a town (population 8597 in Swedish Lappland and the seat of Lycksele Municipality, Västerbotten County. Lapland (Lappland is a province in northernmost Sweden. It borders Jämtland, Ångermanland, Västerbotten, Norrbotten Tärnaby is a village with about 550 people It is located in Storuman Municipality, Västerbotten County, Sweden. Year 1867 ( MDCCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Because of this contribution to education in the relatively under-developed northern Sweden, the Royal Skyttean Society in Umeå was named after him when it was established in 1956. The Royal Skyttean Society ( Swedish Kungliga Skytteanska Samfundet) is a scholarly and scientific academy with its seat in the northern Swedish university Umeå (ʉːmеоː, Uumaja Ubmi is a University city in Västerbotten, Sweden.
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