Statues with sideburns

German philosopher, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of Humboldt Universität. He was born in Potsdam in 1767 and died in 1835. ...

Christian was also known as "the father-in-law of Europe" since he managed to get his six children married into other royal houses...

This German/Danish composer was born in Altona in 1774. At this time Altona was Danish. Now it is German. He composed numerous works until h...

Jacob Peter Mynster was a Danish theologian who was born in 1774. He was the Bishop of Sjælland from 1834 until his death in 1854. During hi...

Carl Johan Uddman was a Swedish singer at the Royal Opera in Stockholm where he is best known for his comical characters. He was born in 18...

To most Swedes Lars Johan Hierta is best known for founding the tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet. Few people probably know that he also starte...

This statue of the great English engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) is located inside Paddington Station in London. Paddington wa...

Peter Wieselgren was one of the leading persons of the Swedish temperance movement. He was born in 1800 in Vislanda, Småland and died 77 yea...

Jöns Jacob Berzelius was the man who invented the modern chemical notation as we know it from the periodic table. He also discovered two e...

In 1904 the public bath Centralbadet in Stockholm opened. The architect and builder Wilhelm Klemming's art nouveau swimming palace with...

This bust of John is located at Nybroplan in Stockholm. Those sideburns are not bad at all. You get an urge to touch them with your fingers....