Carl Gustaf von Nieroth

Count Carl Gustaf von Nieroth, a Swedish-Finnish military and Governor-General of Swedish Estonia 1709-1710 and of Finland 1710-1712.

His date and location of his birth are unknown, but it was in Finland. The first information of his life is as a cornet of the Swedish Army in Pomerania, 1671. In 1692 he had risen to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and in 1700 to major general. The Great Northern War (1700-1721) started that year, and Nieroth was involved in several successful battles, and was in 1704 appointed lieutenant general.

After Viborg was lost in 1710, Nieroth was sent to try and reclaim it. He had managed to gather 10,000 men who sieged the city in 1711, but lacked proper equipment to enter it, and had to retreat. He died suddenly while temporarily halting in Pärnå parish, on January 25, 1712.

External links

* [http://runeberg.org/nfbs/0540.html article Nieroth, Karl] in Nordisk Familjebok (1913).
* [http://runeberg.org/sbh/b0179.html article Nieroth, Carl] in Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon (1906).

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before=Niels Jonsson Stromberg af Clastorp
title=Governor General of Swedish Estonia
years=1709 - 1710
after=Russian Governor Generals