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

• All lodges that adhere(d) to the Swedish Rite (map)
• all All lodges that adhere(d) to the Swedish Rite (table)
• 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 - 1939
• Swedish Order of Freemasons (SFMO) 1939 - 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.

Lodges with insufficient statements

• Item:Q183778 Carlstad
• Item:Q183740 GST St Andrew's Lodge "Glindrande Stiernan", Stockholm
• Item:Q183741 LIN St Andrew's Lodge "L'Innocente", Stockholm
• Item:Q183742 Frenell Lodge "Frenell", Metz
• Item:Q183743 CUB St Andrew's Lodge "Cubiska Stenen", Kristianstad
• Item:Q183744 3KR St Andrew's Lodge "Tre Förenade Kronor", Göteborg
• Item:Q183745 PHE I Lodge "Phoenix", No. 251 Moderns Grand Lodge, Stockholm
• Item:Q183746 NCI St Andrew's Lodge "Nordiska Cirkeln", Stockholm
• Item:Q183747 PHE II St Andrew's Lodge "Phenix", Helsinki
• Item:Q142679 QEL St Andrew's Lodge "Quatuor Elementa", Stralsund
• Item:Q183749 CAJ
• Item:Q183750 GGR St Andrew's Lodge "Gyllene Gripen", Linköping
• Item:Q183751 AUG St Andrew's Lodge "Carl August", Karlstad
• Item:Q183781 Kapitel

see Item:Q81400 or Item:Q10575 for a complex Lodge