page_title: Swedish Pomerania
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Swedish Pomerania / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: John Mackenzie, Lord Macleod in British Uniform as the Colonel of the Highland Light Infantry Regiment
context_page_description: Swedish Pomerania was a Dominion under the Swedish Crown from 1630 to 1815, situated on what is now the Baltic coast of Germany and Poland. Following the Polish War and the Thirty Years' War, Sweden held extensive control over the lands on the southern Baltic coast, including Pomerania and parts of Livonia and Prussia.
  Sweden, present in Pomerania with a garrison at Stralsund since 1628, had gained effective control of the Duchy of Pomerania with the Treaty of Stettin in 1630. At the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 and the Treaty of Stettin in 1653, Sweden received Western Pomerania, with the islands of Rügen, Usedom, and Wolin, and a strip of Farther Pomerania. The peace treaties were negotiated while the Swedish queen Christina was a minor, and the Swedish Empire was governed by members of the high aristocracy. As a consequence, Pomerania was not annexed to Sweden like the French war gains, which would have meant abolition of serfdom, since the Pomeranian peasant laws of 1616 was practised there in its most severe form.
context_section_description: Johann Franz Buddeus (1667–1729) a German Lutheran theologian and philosopher; born at Anklam
  Johann Philipp Palthen (1672–1710) a Western Pomeranian historian and philologist; born in Wolgast
  Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676–1747) a Swedish officer and geographer, contributed to the cartography of Russia; born in Stralsund,
  Johann Joachim Spalding (1714–1804) a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of Scottish ancestry; a native of Tribsees
  Aaron Isaac (1730–1817) a Jewish seal engraver and merchant in haberdashery; came from Pommery
  Balthasar Anton Dunker (1746–1807) a German landscape painter and etcher, born at Saal, near Stralsund.
  Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) a Swedish Pomeranian and German pharmaceutical chemist; born in Stralsund
  Christian Ehrenfried Weigel (1748–1831) a German scientist, professor of Chemistry, Pharmacy, Botany, and Mineralogy at the University of Greifswald; born in Stralsund, died in Griefswald
  Thomas Thorild (1759–1808) a Swedish poet, critic, feminist and philosopher; died at Greifswald
  Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860) a German nationalist historian, writer and poet; born at Gross Schoritz, now a part of Garz on the island of Rügen
  Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) a German Romantic landscape painter; born in Greifswald
  Philipp Otto Runge (1777–1810) a Romantic German painter and draughtsman; born in Wolgast
  Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten (1792–1860) a German orientalist born in Altenkirchen on the island of Rugen, died in Greifswald
  Georg Friedrich Schömann (1793-1879) a German classical scholar of Swedish heritage; born in Stralsund
  Arnold Ruge (1802–1880) German philosopher and political writer; born in Bergen auf Rügen
  Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805–1875) a German economist and socialist of the scientific or conservative school; came from Greifswald
  Adolf Friedrich Stenzler (1807–1887) a German Indologist; born in Wolgast
  Joachim Daniel Andreas Müller (1812–1857) a Swedish gardener and writer; born in Stralsund
  Nobility
  Count Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld (1651–1722) a Swedish Field Marshal; born in Stralsund
  Christof Beetz (1670–1746 in Stralsund) Platz-Major and Stabs-Major of the military garrison in Stralsund
  Kurt Christoph, Graf von Schwerin (1684–1757) a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall; born in Löwitz
  Georg Detlev von Flemming (1699–1771) a General in Polish-Saxon service; was born in Iven
  Gustav David Hamilton (1699–1788) a Swedish count and soldier; commander of Swedish Pommeranian forces during the Seven Years' War
  Hans Karl von Winterfeldt (1707–1757) a Prussian general; born at Vanselow Castle, now in Siedenbrünzow
  John Mackenzie, Lord MacLeod (1727–1789) a Scottish Jacobite, soldier of fortune and mercenary
  Curt Bogislaus Ludvig Kristoffer von Stedingk (1746–1837) a Swedish army officer and diplomat
  Bernhard Ditlef von Staffeldt (1753-1818) officer, born in Kenz
  Count Baltzar Bogislaus von Platen (1766–1829) a Swedish naval officer and statesman; born on the island of Rügen
  Friedrich August von Klinkowström (1778–1835) a German artist, author and teacher from an old Pomeranian noble family; born in Ludwigsburg
  Wilhelm Malte I, Prince of Putbus (1783–1854) a German prince, acted as a Swedish governor in Swedish Pomerania; born in Putbus, Rügen
caption: Lord Macleod
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