Leonard Gyllenhaal (1752 - 1840)

Born 3 Dec 1752 in Bråttensby, Älvsborgs län, Sverige

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Died 13 May 1840 at age 87 in Höberg, Norra Vånga, Skaraborgs län, Sverige

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Biografi

Adliga ätten Gyllenhaal nr 814

Leonard Gyllenhaal till Höberg i Vånga socken och Kila-Kolltorp i Gerums socken, Skaraborgs län. Född 1752-12-03, föräldrar Hans Reinhold Gyllenhaal och Anna Catharina Wahlfelt (nr 1930).

Han var en erkänd entomolog och hans förnämsta verk är Insecta suecica, Coleoptera för vilken han 1828 erhöll Kungliga Vetenskapsakademiens guldmedalj.

Han var även en skicklig jordbrukare och då fadern överlät skötseln av fädernegården Höberg till honom 1784 och Leonard började modernisera förvaltningen av godset och ägnade sig tex åt försöksodling av majs och olika foderväxter. Höberg blev mönstergård, och för detta blev han Riddare av Kungliga Vasaorden 28 april, 1807.

Skall enligt adelsvapen.com varit student i Uppsala 1769. Påbörjat sin militära karriär som korpral vid adelsfanan 1765-11-15, avslutade med majors avsked 1799-12-18.

Gift 1788-01-04/05 med Anna Hård af Torestorp, född 1763-07-25, dotter till löjtnanten Ulrik Gustaf Hård af Torestorp och friherrinnan Eleonora Margareta Fleetwood nr 49.
Barn:

• Anna Eleonora, född 1789, död 1790.
• Hans Ulrik, född 1790, död 1790.
• Gustaf Abraham, född 1791.
• Sofia Lovisa, född 1792-02-27. Gift med Lars Paul Wahlfelt.
• Carl Conrad, född 1793, död 1793.
• Eleonora Margareta, född 1794. Gift med Göran Adolf Rutensköld (nr 328).
• Agnes Gustava, född 1795, död ogift 1861.
• Lars Reinhold, född 1797-03-28, död ogift 1847.
• Fredrik, född 1798, död 1800.
• Catharina Charlotta, född 1800, död 1800.
• Adolf Göran, född 1801, död ogift 1864.
• Fredrik Leonard, född 1802. Brukspatron.

Biography

Leonard Gyllenhaal is Notable.

Leonard was born on Dec 3, 1752 in Bråttensby parish and was the son of Hans Reinhold Gyllenhaal and Anna Catharina Wahlfelt.^[1]

He made a military career, as family tradition required, and retired with the grade of major on Dec 18, 1799. ^[1]

His father let him take over the ancestral estate Höberg in 1784 and Leonard began to modernize the management of the estate. He is said to remained an avid farmer throughout his life and engaged in experimental cultivation of, for example, maize and various fodder plants. Höberg became a model farm and Leonard was chairman of the county's household society 1812-17.

For his efforts as a farmer he was awarded "Riddare av Kungliga Vasaorden" a knight of the The Royal Order of Vasa on April 28, 1807.^[2]

While he, parallell with his military career, always had an interest in natural history, it had originally applied to all areas of the discipline. About 1783 he decided to devote his scientific energy exclusively to entomology. In 1809, he became a member of Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Leonard Gyllenhaal introduced new rules for insect determinations and new foundations for beetle systematic. His foremost publication was Insecta Suecica, describing the insects of Sweden, taking 30 years to complete. For that, he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1828 and it also made him an internationally renowned coleopterologist. As such, he was also elected an honorary member of the Société entomologique in Paris.

His collection of insects, when deposited with the Science Society in Uppsala in 1836, included 400 boxes filled with carefully prepared and determined animals. The collection was taken over in 1866 by the university's zoological museum.

Leonard was married to Anna Hård (af Torestorp), daughter of Ulrik Gustaf Hård (af Torestorp) and Eleonora Margareta Fleetwood, at Synnerby January 4, 1788. They would have the following children;

• Anna Eleonora, born 1789, died 1790.
• Hans Ulrik, born 1790, died 1790.
• Gustaf Abraham, born 1791.
• Sofia Lovisa, born 1792-02-27. Married to Lars Paul Wahlfelt.
• Carl Conrad, born 1793, died 1793.
• Eleonora Margareta, born 1794. Married to Göran Adolf Rutensköld (nr 328).
• Agnes Gustava, born 1795, died unmarried 1861.
• Lars Reinhold, born 1797-03-28, died unmarried 1847.
• Fredrik, born 1798, died 1800.
• Catharina Charlotta, born 1800, died 1800.
• Adolf Göran, born 1801, died unmarried 1864.
• Fredrik Leonard, born 1802..

He died on 13 May 1840 in Höberg, Norra Vånga, Sweden.

Research Notes

All the members of the family in the United States are descended from Hans Gyllenhaal through his great-great-great grandson Anders Leonard (1842–1905) and his wife Amanda (née Nelson, 1859–1948). Anders Leonard Gyllenhaal emigrated to the United States in 1865. A prominent member of this younger branch hitherto was Leonard Gyllenhaal (1752–1840).

His grandson was the Swedish-American journalist Anders Leonard Gyllenhaal. His descendants in the American branch of the family include the actor siblings Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Leonard Gyllenhaal, https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/artikel/13370, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Olle Franzén), hämtad 2022-04-30.
2. ↑ Kungl. Maj:ts Ordens arkiv, Matriklar, SE/KH/1/D 1/1 (1748-1811), bildid: E0000836_00126

See also;

• https://www.adelsvapen.com/genealogi/Gyllenhaal_nr_814#TAB_23
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Gyllenhaal
• https://www.kungahuset.se/sveriges-monarki/ordnar-och-medaljer/ordnar