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From the moment on the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632) landed with his troops on the northern German island of Usedom on July 6th 1630 the pro-Swedish and Swedish publicists and propagandists started to intensify the publication of illustrated broadsheets. The Swedish king was above all depicted as a militarily strong general, an ancient and Old Testament hero figure, as the Lion of the North and even as a physician. These graphic accounts of Gustavus Adolphus were often combined with the publicistic stylistic device of the Miles Christianus. Based on the broadsheet-collection of the National library of Sweden (Kungliga biblioteket; literally translated as The Royal Library) the change of the publicistic image of the Swedish king, between his landing at Usedom on July 6th 1630 and his death on November 16th 1632 at the battlefield of Lützen and later, will be discussed. Many modern historians who work with illustrated broadsheets maintain that Gustavus Adolphus was only present in protestant popular press until around 1634/35. Thereafter, protestant authors and propagandists did not refer to him in their broadsheets. However, in this paper it is posited that the Swedish king was indeed present in protestant propaganda for a longer period than has been heretofore assumed. In addition to an analysis of the illustrated broadsheets, an original catalogue depicting the illustrated broadsheets was created. The importance of this new kind of catalogue is twofold. Firstly, the collection of illustrated broadsheets of the National library of Sweden has not yet been analysed and published as an independent catalogue. Secondly, this catalogue contains verbatim transcriptions of the illustrated broadsheets and has thereby broken new ground. It would be worthwhile for national libraries to provide these verbatim transcriptions of their collections of illustrated broadsheets. This would facilitate future research of illustrated broadsheets and even make more detailed analysis possible. Tobias E. Hämmerle, geb. 1990 in Wien, studierte Skandinavistik, Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte an der Universität Wien. Derzeit ist er am niederösterreichischen Institut für Landeskunde (NÖIL) beschäftigt und arbeitet zugleich - im Zuge seiner Dissertation - zum Schwedenbild im Heiligen Römischen Reich während der schwedischen Großmachtzeit (1611-1721). Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen im Bereich der frühneuzeitlichen Medienforschung. Er nutzt seinen bilingualen Hintergrund, indem er den Fokus seiner wissenschaftlichen Arbeit zumeist auf die frühneuzeitliche Geschichte Schwedens legt.
