Home / Birthday profiles / Carl Westman
Portrait of Carl Westman

Birthday profile

Carl Westman

Carl Westman, Swedish architect, designed the Stockholm Court House and Röhsska Museum (died 1936)

Find birthday twinsOpen interactive profile
Born
February 20, 1866
Died
January 23, 1936
Zodiac sign
Pisces
Birth year
1866

About Carl Westman

Ernst Carl Westman was a Swedish architect and interior designer. He was an early adopter of the National Romantic Style, but turned later to the neo-classical style of the 1920s. Ernst Carl Westman (20 February 1866 – 23 January 1936) was a Swedish architect and interior designer. Carl Westman was one of the foremost advocates in Sweden for a return to the national characteristics in architecture. In 1897, Westman opened his own architect bureau.

Biography source: Wikipedia. The profile adds birthday-specific historical context from the Celebs Birthday Today editorial database.

Carl Westman timeline

  1. Ernst Carl Westman (20 February 1866 – 23 January 1936) was a Swedish architect and interior designer.
  2. In 1897, Westman opened his own architect bureau.

The world when Carl Westman was born

Carl Westman was born in 1866. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1866

  • Best-selling bookCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineReconstruction era begins in the South
  • Technology milestoneTransatlantic telegraph cable successfully laid
  • World population~1.46B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderAndrew Johnson
  • U.S. population34.0M

1866 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Carl Westman's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18662026
Population34.0M341 million

Sources and editorial standards

This profile combines a biographical source with structured birthday and historical context. Sources recorded for this profile: Wikipedia, Library of Congress, Wikidata. See our editorial policy for sourcing, corrections, and review standards.

Read the source biography on Wikipedia. Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.