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GAHN - Gahn is a Swedish family, one member of which was ennobled in 1809 with the name Gahn af Colquhoun. The family has claimed an unverified origin in a ...

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Gahn is a Swedish family, one member of which was ennobled in 1809 with the name Gahn af Colquhoun. The family has claimed an unverified origin in a Scottish family Colquhoun, a claim which was confirmed 1781 in a letter by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, but on dubious grounds, as later research has shown. A claim that the Swedish noble family Canonhielm is a branch of this family has also been shown to lack genealogical substance.
* Notable members of the family include:* Johan Gottlieb Gahn (17451818), chemist and mineralogist who discovered manganese in 1774, and after whom the mineral gahnite was named.
* Henrik Gahn (17471816), physician and student of Linnaeus, who pioneered the use of vaccine against smallpox in Sweden in 1803.
* Carl Pontus Gahn, ennobled with the name Gahn af Colquhoun (17591825), military officer who participated in the war in Finland in 17881789, the campaign in Norway in 1808 and the invasion of Norway in 1814. He became major-general in 1814 and president of the Ma

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