Herman Petersen

Herman Petersen ennobled af Petersens (29 December 1713 – 13 August 1765) was a Swedish merchant and entrepreneur.[1]

Herman Petersen
Herman Petersen, painted by Gustaf Lundberg
Born(1713-12-29)29 December 1713
Gothenburg, Sweden
Died13 August 1765(1765-08-13) (aged 51)
Stockholm, Sweden
NationalitySwedish
OccupationMerchant, entrepreneur
Parent(s)Abraham Petersen
Christina Tham

Biography

He was born in December 1765 to Abraham Petersen, a wholesaler in Gothenburg and his wife Christina Tham. [2] He was elected to serve as director of the Swedish East India Company for a period. During the 1760s.[3] Petersen traded great amounts of copper with France. He did so with his company Petersen & Bedoire, that he had started with his brother-in-law, Fredrik Bedoire. Petersen was a member of the so called Skeppsbroadel.

Personal life
Erstavik manor, built for Herman Petersen and his family. The manor was one of the few lasting fideicommisums in Sweden.

Petersen was one of the wealthiest men in Sweden in the 18th century, and with all of his money, he bought several estates that still lasts in the family as of today.

His children were raised to peerage after he had died. They added the preposition af in front of their original name. He married Magdalena Bedoire in 1741, and later her cousin Charlotta Bedoire in 1753. His daughter Julie af Petersens married envoy and hofmarschall Henrik Jakob von Düben.

References
  1. "Herman Petersen". Riksarkivet (in Swedish). 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  2. Anrep, Gabriel. Svenska adelns Ättar-taflor, volym 3.
  3. Svenska Män och Kvinnor. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers förlag. 1949.
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