Bror von Blixen-Finecke

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1886 – 1946

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Who was Bror von Blixen-Finecke?

Baron Bror Fredrik von Blixen-Finecke was a Swedish baron, writer, and African big-game hunter.

Born to an aristocratic Swedish family, he became engaged to his Danish second-cousin Karen Blixen and married her in 1914 in Kenya, where they sat up and ran a coffee plantation on behalf of her family.

Although the couple were divorced in 1925, she was quoted as saying, shortly before her death, "If I could wish anything back of my life, it would be to go on safari once again with Bror..."

On 1 August 1928, he remarried the British aristocrat Jacqueline Harriet "Cockie" Alexander. When he was visited in Kenya by the Swedish adventurer and aviatrix Eva Dickson in 1932, while "Cockie" was visiting her mother in England, the marriage quickly ended, as he and Eva became lovers. In 1935, he and "Cockie" divorced, and the following year he married Eva in New York, and they spent their honeymoon together with Ernest Hemingway and his wife Martha Gellhorn sailing around Cuba and the Bahamas.

In March 1938, Eva Dickson von Blixen-Finecke died in a car crash outside Baghdad, on her way back from Calcutta after having been forced to give up her big dream of driving the Silk Road to Beijing. Bror von Blixen-Finecke didn't learn about her death until 28 July 1938, and he was devastated by the news. He left Africa after 25 years and returned to his native Sweden, where he died in 1946, at the age of 59, following the crash of a car in which he was a passenger.

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Born
Jul 25, 1886
Also known as
  • Baron Bror Fredrik von Blixen-Finecke
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Nationality
  • Sweden
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Died
Mar 4, 1946

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on July 23, 2013

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