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has their residence in an apartment in the building. Since 1995, the Skytte
Foundation at Uppsala University has awarded an annual
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The dead King
Adolphus' body was brought to Nyköping, and kept there until the funeral ceremony held in the summer of 1634 at the
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Of the several schools in Sweden named after Skytte, one was actually founded on his initiative, the
Skyttean school (
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By 1624, Skytte's job-titles had come to include the Chief
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Ramism, Rhetoric & Reform: An
Intellectual Biography of Johan Skytte (1577–1645)
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Ramism, Rhetoric and Reform: An
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for the period of 1629–1634. In 1632, he was appointed chancellor of the
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In 1620, Skytte's long-time friend and most important ally, King
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in 1867 – both places are in the northern
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on a diplomatic mission, an attempt to seek the hand of
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335:, Sweden.
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468:Lapland
464:Tärnaby
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367:riksråd
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329:Grönsöö
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