About Gustaf Palm
Lived 1760 – 1807 (aged 46–47). Gustaf Palm was a Swedish businessperson and supercargo.
Gustaf Palm ( – 1807) was a Swedish supercargo for the Swedish East India Company in Guangzhou.
Biography Gustaf Palm was born in the Ottoman Empire, where his father, Asmund Palm, served as a merchant and representative for the Swedish Levant Company, based in Smyrna and Constantinople. His mother was Eva van Bruyn, a member of the Dutch nobility. His sisters, Maria Palm-Hebbe (nicknamed 'Mimica'), and Elisabeth Palm-Schön, were also etchers.
Palm served as a supercargo for the Swedish East India Company. He appears to have reached Canton in 1799, serving first as an assistant before completing his period there in 1807. Palm was the final individual to hold the post of supercargo in Guangzhou.
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Who was Gustaf Palm?
Swedish supercargo in Guangzhou
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Gustaf Palm was born in 1760 in Constantinople.
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Gustaf Palm died in 1807 in Guangzhou.
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Gustaf Palm was a businessperson and supercargo.
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Gustaf Palm was Swedish.
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