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Georg von Schwengeln (before his ennoblement Georgius Schwengell, c. 1590 – before May, 1669) was a cartographer and military officer from Livonia in Swedish service. He was born around 1590 and entered Swedish service following the Swedish conquest of Riga in 1621. Georg von Schwengeln was apparently first employed as a translator or interpreter from Polish, and went to Poland on missions for the Swedish Crown on several occasions. Gradually his duties shifted to mapmaking, and then to making plans and suggestions for improvements of fortresses and towns in the eastern part of the Swedish Empire. He was amply rewarded for his services, promoted to quartermaster general of the Swedish army in Livonia and ennobled. He was discharged with the rank of major general in 1661 and dies sometime between 1667 and May 1669.