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Samuel Gustaf Hermelin

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Swedish businessman and diplomat

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Samuel Gustaf Hermelin was a Swedish industrialist, diplomat and cartographer. Samuel Gustaf also belonged to the Swedish nobility. He attended the University of Uppsala for mining. In 1782, he went to the United States to study the mining operations and served as the first Swedish ambassador to the United States.

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Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Knight of the Order of the Polar Star

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Samuel Gustaf Hermelin was a Swedish industrialist, diplomat and cartographer. Samuel Gustaf also belonged to the Swedish nobility. He attended the University of Uppsala for mining. In 1782, he went to the United States to study the mining operations and served as the first Swedish ambassador to the United States. He eventually moved back to Sweden and owned a mining company in Lapland. Samuel Gustaf was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1784. In 1785, he was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.

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Sweden
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Scientists
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Lived 1744 to 1820 · aged 75
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