Gustaf Vilhelm Emanuel Swedenborg (17 June 1869 in Kvidinge – 1943 in Drottningholm)[1] son of lieutenant colonel Gustaf Erik Oscar Swedenborg and Maria Therése Fock,[2] was a member of the Swedish military and an aeronaut, today remembered as a reservist on Salomon August Andrée's failed North Pole expedition in 1897 and for being one of the first Swedish balloonists. He was also the first person to hold an aeronautical certificate in Sweden, issued in 1905.[3]
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