FactGrid:Swedish Freemasonry

• Andreas Önnerfors (German/Swedish) provided the first data
• Olaf Simons (German) filled the data into FactGrid
• Magnus Sälgö (Swedish) knows a lot about Swedish biographical databases and Wikidata
• User talk:Martin Gollasch (German) has been dealing with students of North German Universities

First Searches

• Map view: All Lodges of the Province IX of the Strict Observance/ Swedish Order of Freemasonry / tinyurl
• all men of the data set of 18-century Swedish Freemasons
• Timeline - needs more dates in the red column of our spreadsheet
• all Swedish masons of a particular degree

• The Swedish Rite degree System
• Item:Q177537 Nils Bjelke - a person in the data set

• network view: the highest rank of the Swedish rite and the member's links to organisations (one should be able to take the Freemasonic centre out of the picture).

Data Model

• Swedish Great Land Lodge 1760-1780
• Province IX of the Strict Observance "Archipelago and Greece" 1780-1782
• IXth Province of the Order 1782 - 1935-03
• Swedish Order of Freemasons (SFMO) 1935-03 - today

Career Statements, Positions etc.

can be found in the Swedish descriptions and are not yet available as statements. We would need German translations to map them. Here a Google doc that needs replacements and identification (in <> brackets) of the sort of information which we have to feed into FactGrid

• [Swedish Freemasons and their careers] Google doc

Who is Who?

The input is straight from Nils Petter Sundius, Provincial Matrikel över samtliga uti IX. Frimurare Provinsen uti 18de Seculum [...] antagne [...] Ledamöter (1831) Item:Q183736. It will be quite a challenge to map these people in

• the Swedish National Biography
• Wikidata.

Some Lists:

• Frimurare Orden with lists of important people
• matched Litteraturbanken with Wikidata
• Wikidata query

Source edition

• Nils Petter Sundius, Provincial Matrikel över samtliga uti IX. Frimurare Provinsen uti 18de Seculum [...] antagne [...] Ledamöter (1831)

We should have the source on Wikimedia Commons. Martin Gollasch offered help.

Germans of Stralsund and Greifswald

There are quite a number of Germans in the dataset - so far with Swedish Name variants that are not recognised in German sources. These people need German labels.