Axel Otto Mörner Explained

Honorific Prefix:Lieutenant general
Count
Axel Otto Mörner
Birth Name:Axel Otto Mörner
Birth Date:8 June 1774
Birth Place:Lekaryd Parish, Småland, Sweden
Death Place:Eksjö Parish, Småland, Sweden
Allegiance: Sweden
Branch:Swedish Army
Serviceyears:1777–1840
Rank:Lieutenant general
Battles:
Awards:Pour le Mérite
Laterwork:Minister of War (1840–43)

Count Axel Otto Mörner (8 June 1774 – 20 October 1852) was a Swedish artist and general.

Family

Mörner was born in Lekaryd Parish in Jönköping County, Sweden and was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Count Carl Gustaf Mörner and Sofia Elisabet Steuch. He was the brother of Hampus Mörner, Charlotta Mörner, Gustaf Fredrik Mörner and Carl Stellan Mörner.[1]

Personal life

On 4 October 1801 he married Ebba Modée at Rosersberg Palace.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mörner, släkt . . Mörner, kinship . H G-m . 6 November 2015 . Swedish . https://web.archive.org/web/20131113100646/http://www.nad.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=8697 . 13 November 2013 . dead .
  2. Web site: Axel O Mörner . . Magnus . Mörner . 6 November 2015 . Swedish . https://web.archive.org/web/20131113090731/http://www.nad.riksarkivet.se/SBL/Presentation.aspx?id=8701 . 13 November 2013 . dead .