RONNOW, MAGNUS [SSNE 3788]

Surname
RONNOW, DUBLAR
First name
MAGNUS
Title/rank
Nationality
SCOTO-SWEDE
Region
Social status
STUDENT
Education
UNIVERSITY
Religion

Text source

Magnus Ronnow (junior) was probably of Scottish origin from the Dublar family. Magnus Dublar (senior) was a Scottish gentleman who settled at Ronneby as a merchant and town councillor. He had two children. Casten Dublar was born in 1638 and died in 1691. He studied at Strasbourg (1656), Rostock (1659) and Copenhagen the same year. Casten became parson of Aarhus in 1661 and later in Sweden of Almstad and Orebro. He also became a member of the Swedish diet. His brother Magnus was born in the 1630's and later became an officer in the Swedish navy. He married Maria Schmidt of Copenhagen, their grandson Casten Ronnow admitted to Swedish aristocracy 1776. The Dublar's took the name of Ronnow after their native town once they moved to Sweden. A Magnus Ronnow enrolled at Upsalla and another at Lund through the course of 1680. It is almost certain they were the same man, the son or grandson of Magnus Dublar.It was probably this Magnus Dublar who worked as a translator in Sweden in 1702 and who penned odes to Charles XII in 1716.

Swedish Riksarkiv, Eric Dahlbergs Arkiv, vol. XXXI, Stockholm, from Magnus (Ronnow) Dublar, 15 April 1702; British Library, Dublar (Magnus Rönnow), Odes to Charles XII of Sweden 1716. Sloane Mss. 3421; B. Schlegel and C. A. Klingspor, Den med skoldebref forlanade men ej a Riddarhuset introducerad Svenska Adelns Ättar-taflor (Stockholm, 1875) p.56; T. Fischer, The Scots in Sweden (Edinburgh, 1907), Supplement, pp.215-267; T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.178.

Service record

SWEDEN, UPPSALA
Arrived 1680-01-01
Departed 1680-12-31
Capacity STUDENT, purpose ACADEMIC
SWEDEN, LUND
Arrived 1680-01-01
Departed 1680-12-31
Capacity STUDENT, purpose ACADEMIC
SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM
Arrived 1702-04-15
Capacity TRANSLATOR, purpose CIVIC, DIPLOMACY?