According to tradition, the family which originated from ancient Rhenish-German nobility, came to Sweden

Sweden

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 from Livonia

Livonia

Livonia is a historic region along the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea. It was once the land of the Finnic Livonians inhabiting the principal ancient Livonian County Metsepole with its center at Turaida...

 during the 17th century via the Polish Major Hildebrand Staël. The family was naturalized as Swedish Nobility on the 14th of October 1652, and the family was introduced at the Swedish House of Knights

Swedish House of Knights

The Swedish House of Nobility maintains records and acts as an interest group on behalf of the Swedish nobility.-Name:The name means either the corporation of the Swedish nobility or the palace of the nobility....

 on the 20th of September 1675.

Currently the family has been divided in rank and station: one side of the family was raised to baron

Baron

Baron is a title of nobility. The word baron comes from Old French baron, itself from Old High German and Latin baro meaning " man, warrior"; it merged with cognate Old English beorn meaning "nobleman"...

ial status (Swe: Friherrelig) in Sweden; another, to baronial level within the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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 in 1869. The family has also been introduced in the Estonian and Latvian Houses of Nobility.

• Baron Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein
  Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein
  Baron Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein, . Erik Magnus was Chamberlain to Her Majesty Queen Sophia Magdalena. In 1783 he was appointed chargé d'affaires to the Court of France, and in 1785 he was named Ambassador to France...
  
   (1749–1802), Swedish Ambassador in France.
• His wife, Germaine Necker
  Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
  Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein , commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author living in Paris and abroad. She influenced literary tastes in Europe at the turn of the 19th century.- Childhood :...
  
   (1766–1817), French author known as Madame de Staël.
• Nicolas de Staël
  Nicolas de Staël
  Nicolas de Staël was a painter known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting...
  
   (1914-1955), French painter
• Johan Staël von Holstein
  Johan Staël von Holstein
  Lars Johan Magnus Staël von Holstein is an author and co-founder of dot-com companies such as Icon Medialab and LetsBuyIt during the dot-com boom in Sweden....
  
  (1963-), IT entrepreneur.

Baron Jan Stael von Holstein,(1939-) Swedish, Professor Tongji University Shanghai China

External links

• Private Website of Stael von Holstein family in German
• Private Website of Stael von Holstein family in Germany, Livonia and Sweden (in Swedish and in English)

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