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Louis De Geer
Louis De Geer was a Dutch-born merchant and industrialist who became the leading entrepreneur of 17th-century Sweden. Settling there in the 1620s, he developed the ironworks of Uppland, brought in Walloon smiths, became the main arms supplier of the Swedish crown during the Thirty Years' War, and was ennobled. He founded the Swedish Africa Company in 1649.
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