Gustaf Horn: Colonel and Commander of the Ostrobothnian Infantry Regiment (1661-1673)

Gustaf Horn, born around 1627, died in 1673, was a Swedish military man. He was the grandson of Jöran Henriksson Horn and the father of Arvid and Christer Horn.

Horn became a student at the Turku Academy in 1640, at Uppsala University in 1641, at the University of Greifswald in 1644 and at the University of Strassburg in 1650. He became master of horse in the last-mentioned year and lieutenant colonel in 1656. Horn became colonel and commander of the Ostrobothnian infantry regiment in 1660. He participated in the estate meeting in Turku in 1657 and in the Riksdag in Stockholm in 1660. Horn signed up for Vuorentaka in Halikko parish and Liesniemi in Sagu parish, which he inherited from his uncles. He received the homestead in the Kangasala parish as a fief. Horn was buried in 1674 in Turku Cathedral.