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Bror von Blixen-Finecke. Blixen (left) with Edward, Prince of Wales and Denys Finch Hatton (right), 1928. Baron Bror Fredrik von Blixen-Finecke (25 July 1886 – 4 March 1946) was a Swedish nobleman, writer, professional hunter and guide on African big-game hunts. He was married to Karen Blixen (née Dinesen) from 1914 to 1925.
Von Blixen-Finecke was born on 25 July 1886 at Näsbyholm Castle, Sweden. He was the grandson of Carl Frederik Blixen-Finecke, and the son of Baron Fredrik von Blixen-Finecke, a Hovjägmästare, and his wife Countess Clara Krag-Juel-Wind-Frijs. [4] He was the twin brother of Bror von Blixen-Finecke, a famed professional hunter in Africa who was ...
DT433.54 .D56 1992. Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen's life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who ...
Karen Blixen. Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries; Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries; Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.
Von Blixen-Finecke was born on 20 July 1916 in Linköping, Sweden, the son of Baron Hans von Blixen-Finecke, who won an Olympic bronze in dressage in 1912, and his wife Baroness Brita Trolle. [4] He was the nephew of Bror von Blixen-Finecke and writer Karen Blixen. He was born as Nils Gustaf Fredrik Bror, but since the age of one was called ...
Located in what was then British East Africa, the bungalow-style house which is now the Karen Blixen Museum was built in 1912 by the Swedish engineer Åke Sjögren, [2] The house and its attached property were bought in 1917 by Karen Blixen and her husband, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke with the intention of operating a coffee plantation.
When Fenter came to Macon in 1969 with his Swedish baroness wife, Ulla “Kiki” von Blixen-Finecke, one of their first houseguests was Aretha Franklin and her husband, Ted. The couple slept over.
Carl baron Blixen was married two times. First in 1842 with Gustafva Charlotta Adelaide Sofia Ankarcrona (1821-1890) with whom he had two children, a son Frederik Theodor Hans Anna Wolfgang Christian Blixen-Finecke (1847-1919) and a daughter Charlotta Antoinette Louise Ulrikka Blixen-Finecke (1845-1928) . They divorced and in 1854 he married ...