STEDINGK, Curt Bogislaus Louis Christopher, Count yon, Swedish soldier, born in his father's castle of Pinnau, Pomerania, 26 October, 1746; died in Stockholm. He was graduated at the University of Upsala in 1768, entered the Swedish army in his youth, took part in the war against Prussia, and, entering the French service in the Royal regiment of Sweden, rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. At Versailles, where he remained on duty, he lived on intimate terms of friendship with Count Axel Fersen. In command of a brigade of infantry he sailed in D'Estaing's fleet in 1778, and gained credit in the operations against the West Indies, especially in the attack upon Granada. In the attack upon Savannah, 9 October, 1779, the rashness and probable failure of which he predicted to D'Estaing, he led one of the two principal assaults, and, after planting the American flag on the last intrenchment, was wounded and compelled to retreat with the loss of half his brigade of 900 men. After his return to France the king made him colonel of the regiment of Alsace and knight of the Protestant branch of the Order of St. Louis, while the king of Sweden, in recognition of his services in America, made him colonel of dragoons and knight of the Order of the Sword. He also received the badge of the Society of the Cincinnati. He left France in 1787, took part in the war between Sweden and Russia, and was rewarded for his services by being appointed Swedish ambassador at, St. Petersburg in 1790, which post he long retained. In 1814 he repaired to Paris in command of the Swedish army, and was the ambassador of the king of Sweden to sign the treaty of peace with France.