My maternal great-grandfather, Adolf Paul. Adolf wrote plays and stories, none of which are well known today. His Wikipedia page is a stub, and it gets his birthplace wrong. He was not born in Bromma, Sweden, but Bromö, an island in Lake Vänern. The family moved from there to a 70,000-acre estate called Jokkis in what was then Sweden and is now Finland. It had a 20-kilometer railway. They just lived there; they didn't own it. Family legend says it was lost by the guy who did own it to pay a gambling debt. Adolf's birth name (January 6, 1863) was Georg Wiedersheim-Paul, but he changed it to Adolf Paul to annoy his mother and father. He died September 30, 1943 in Berlin. My mother says "I was in Sweden and remember my father writing to me with the news on very thick, black-rimmed stationary."
Adolf's bust, also sculpted by John Münsterhjelm in 1906, sits in storage in the National Museum of Finland.
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