Asmund Palm

Cornelius Asmund Palm (c. 1715 – 4 February 1780) Palm was a Swedish diplomat, merchant, executive consul for the Swedish Empire in its consulate in Constantinople serving Swedish interests in the region, and an executive chief of the Swedish Levantine Company in Smyrna.[1][2]

Asmund Palm
Asmund Palm painted by Jonas Hoffman in 1773.
Executive consul in the Ottoman Empire for the Swedish Empire
Personal details
Bornc. 1715
Germany
Died4 February 1780
Stockholm, Sweden
Children

Biography

Asmund Palm was probably born in Germany according to several uncited sources.

Career

He began his operations in Smyrna where he acted as the executive chief of the Swedish Levantine Company. He imported coffee beans, raisins and oriental carpets to Sweden during his service.[3] During this time Palm was accompanied by Christian Hebbe.[4]

Some people claim that he was one of the first people that introduced coffee in Sweden.

Palm later moved to Constantinople after several years, where he positioned as the executive consul in the Ottoman Empire for the Swedish Empire. He was also the last to hold this position for several years until it had been reintroduced.[5]

He settled in Sweden in the 1760s.

Personal life

He married Eva van Bruyn, daughter of a Dutch nobleman.[6] With whom he had at least three children. Both his daughters Elisabeth and Mimica Palm became artists, and married into the so called Nobles of Skeppsbron.[7][8] His son Gustaf Palm (1760–1807)[9] became a supercargo in Guangzhou serving the Swedish East India Company.

References
  1. Nordiska museets och Skansens årsbok 1951 (PDF) (in Swedish). Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  2. Kad?, Ismail Hakk? (2012-05-25). Ottoman and Dutch Merchants in the Eighteenth Century: Competition and Cooperation in Ankara, Izmir, and Amsterdam. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-22517-6.
  3. LILJENCRANTZ (Count.), Johan (1770). Tal, om Sveriges utrikes handel i allmänhet och den Levantiska i synnerhet, hållet för Kongl. Vetenskaps Academien, vid Præsidii nedläggande; etc (in Swedish).
  4. Edelhjerta, Emanuel Sundels; Paulin, Axel (1961). Edelhjertas öden: ett forskningsäventyr; Emanuel Sundels Edelhjertas brev, teckningar och berättelser (in Swedish). Natur och Kultur.
  5. ESPLING, Olof (1784). Minne öfver I. I. Bjornståhl, etc (in Swedish).
  6. Anrep, Gabriel (1872). Svenska slägtboken: Första serien (in Swedish). I. Haeggström.
  7. Poellinger, Clemens (2004-02-29). "Obekväm generaldirektör". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). ISSN 1101-2412. Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  8. Anders Svensson (2016-07-26). "Gustaf Palm |" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2020-11-14.
  9. Östman, Margareta (2008). Au champ d'Apollon: écrits d'expression française produits en Suède (1550-2006) (in French). Kungl. Vitterhets Histoire och Antikvitets Akademien. ISBN 978-91-7402-375-6.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
 Executive consul of Sweden to the Ottoman Empire Succeeded by
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