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

At the 1932 Los Angeles Games, eventual champion Johan Oxenstierna of Sweden was nearly arrested while taking practice shots in the woods near the gun range.

From Los Angeles Times

For Stacton was a passionate curator of historical periods and personalities, and on the page he crossed time and space to offer likenesses of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, Lord Nelson and Ludwig of Bavaria, Cardinal Richlieu and Axel Oxenstierna, Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth.

From The Guardian

In April 1633 a convention was entered into here between Oxenstierna, the Swabian and Frankish estates and the French, English and Dutch ambassadors, as a result of which the Heilbronn treaty, for the prosecution of the Thirty Years’ War, was concluded.

From Project Gutenberg

It lies in the hands of Gustavus Adolphus and Oxenstierna, Swedes; of Wallenstein, a Bohemian; of--I know not who will be the next foreigner.'

From Project Gutenberg

Yet no man could be more unlike the dark Wallenstein, the crafty Arnim, the imperious Oxenstierna, or the sleepless French cardinal, whose star has since risen--as I have heard these men described; for Leuchtenstein carried his credentials in his face.

From Project Gutenberg