Adolphe Stackelberg

Reinhold Adolphe Louis Stackelberg (30 June 1822 – 22 January 1871) was a Swedish count (greve), estate owner, and metalworking plant owner as well as one of the firebrands of the Christian revival movement in Småland.

Biography Stensnäs north wing with the main building in the background, July 2021. Adolphe Stackelberg was born in 1822 in Hjo, Sweden, to Chief Valet de chambre Count Carl Adolf Ludvig Stackelberg and Eva Sofia Adelswärd and grew up in Almnäs. He was the 14th child in his family. He was born into a noble family, which, however, lacked considerable wealth. He attended Uppsala University, graduating in 1840. Despite his family's lack of wealth, Stackelberg managed to marry Honorée (Honorine), his cousin and the daughter of the very wealthy baron Jan Carl Adelswärd. The wedding took place on 30 August 1847 and Adelswärd gave the couple Stensnäs Manor in Västervik and its estate.

In the 1840s Stackelberg experienced a crisis of faith and soon found himself in revivalist Carl Olof Rosenius' Nyevangelism ('New Evangelism') movement. In the autumn of 1855, the evangelical revivalists in Kalmar County also began to organize into missionary societies. This was the beginning of the . He also worked with priests and as well as with the Swedish Evangelical Mission .

Unlike some branches of the revivalists, Stackelberg was not a separatist. He remained part of the established church, also receiving permission to preach in the church from the bishop.

In 1860 Stackelberg also inherited the from his parents-in-law. There, he had a mobile church built that could be moved on rails. Nicolaus Bergensköld, who later emigrated to the United States and became a leading figure in the Swedish rural missionary movement (Mission Friends), preached in this church from 1865 to 1867. Later Stackelberg also built a permanent church on the mill square at his own expense. However, this was not completed until after his death and was consecrated by Ebbe Gustaf Bring on 18 August 1872.

Never in the best of health, Stackelberg died on 22 January 1871 after a period of illness; Fjellstedt officiated at his funeral. He is buried in Ukna cemetery.