Oxenstierna

American  

[ook-suhn-sher-nah] / ˈʊk sənˌʃɛr nɑ /

Or Oxenstjerna

noun

1. Count Axel 1583–1654, Swedish statesman.

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Oxenstierna British  

/ ˈuksənʃæːrna /

noun

1. Count Axel (ˈaksəl). 1583–1654, Swedish statesman. He was chancellor (1612–54) and successfully directed Swedish foreign policy for most of the Thirty Years' War

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Example Sentences

The Swede who won last week, Count Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna, did it without placing first in any of the five events.

From Time Magazine Archive

Until 1654 Christina was queen but the real ruler was Oxenstierna, who piloted Sweden through the closing years of the war and secured advantageous terms in the treaty of peace.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene

But the desire aroused by Usselinx for a Swedish colonial empire was revived in the reign of his infant daughter, Christina, by the celebrated Swedish Chancellor, Oxenstierna.

From The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware by Fisher, Sydney George

Wise old scouts like Sully, Oxenstierna and Plombal who did the real work and let the cloth-of-gold opera-tenor kings and potentates prance around in the lime-light, they took Neale's fancy too.

From Rough-Hewn by Canfield, Dorothy

Outward peace was precariously maintained between the Scandinavian powers, when the seizure of a number of Swedish ships in the Sound in 1643 made Oxenstierna resolve upon a bold stroke.

From History of Holland by Edmundson, George