Christopher Jacob Boström was born in Piteå and became a student in Uppsala in 1815.
From 1842 to 1863, he was professor of practical philosophy in Uppsala and was Sweden's most influential philosopher in the 19th century. He built up a metaphysical system with roots in German and Swedish idealism. Boström was a persuasive lecturer and excelled in speeches.
Boström's so-called rational idealism, with its strong emphasis on the individual's duties in a moral and rational society, came to exert a profound influence on thinking in Sweden in the latter half of the 19th century.
Boströmianism, named after its originator, was the only original philosophical system to emerge in Sweden in the 19th century and, through Boström's disciples, came to dominate Swedish university philosophy throughout the latter part of the 19th century.
His disciples included Sigurd Ribbing, Yngve Sahlin and Axel Nyblaeus. Boström's niece is Ebba Boström, founder of the Samaritan Home. She is also buried in the Old Cemetery.
Image description: Christopher Jacob Boström, 1865. Photo: Litografiskt allehanda, fifth edition. Sigrid Flodin's publishing house. / Wikimedia Commons. [The image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
August Haglund became a citizen in 1862 and opened his own business in Lodénska huset at Stora torget.
When Uplandsbanken was founded, he became its first bookkeeper and was then bank cashier until his retirement. Haglund wrote poems for family celebrations and was a musician in the Skarpskyttekårens orchestra.
He is best known for his donation of SEK 50,000 in 1901 for a new bridge over Fyrisån at Skolgatan. The bridge is also known today as "Haglund's bridge" and replaced the previous bridge built on the site in 1889.
The former bridge was moved north (to Odensgatan) and named "Eddaspången" after the Edda neighborhood. The rafting on last April usually starts just north of Haglund's bridge.
Lars Erstrand was one of the great names in Swedish jazz in the 20th century. He became "Mister Swing" with the jazz public and was a big name in both Swedish and international jazz.
He started playing piano but switched to vibraphone after being influenced by vibraphonist Lionel Hampton's playing in Benny Goodman's orchestra.
From the 1960s onwards, Erstrand worked with clarinettist Ove Lind.
His international breakthrough came in the 1970s when he played with Benny Goodman and later with clarinetists Bob Wilber and 'Peanuts' Hucko.
Lars Erstrand also performed with Sven Asmussen and Alice Babs, and from the 1990s played with Arne Domnerus and in the quartet Swedish Swing Society.
Frithiof Holmgren established Sweden's first physiological laboratory in 1862 and became the country's first professor of physiology at the age of 33. He was also one of the most prominent teachers of his time at Uppsala University.
He became a world-famous scientist with the discovery of the retinal blood flow in the eye.
The studies of color blindness made Holmgren internationally known and in 1874 he described his method of using differently colored "sequined dolls", the so-called wool yarn test, to detect color blindness.
The method was of great practical importance for people in signal service, such as railway staff and seamen. A train accident in Lagerlunda in 1875 was suspected to have been caused by the inability of a dead engineer to distinguish between red and green. No one had considered that color vision could be important for railway personnel.
The equipment used by Holmgren to discover the retinal current, the electrical response of the retina to light. The equipment consists of a mirror galvanometer and a light catcher with a clockwork that drives the mirror. Photo: Museum of Medical History in Uppsala.
Sefirgarns dolls for carrying out the test of color vision developed by Holmgren, which became compulsory for all those to be employed in rail and maritime traffic. Photo: Museum of Medical History in Uppsala.
A more macabre study undertaken by Holmgren focused on whether beheading was a painless method of execution. Holmgren therefore attended four beheadings to examine the method from a physiological point of view.
According to Holmgren, the case studies showed that decapitation as a method met the requirements of painlessness.
Holmgren also participated in the debates in Verdandi, and his radical stance was reflected in his dictation to the minutes of the consistory:
"I hold freedom of thought to be one of man's most precious privileges, and the university in which the principle of freedom of thought is not paramount does not, in my opinion, fulfill its task. To educate the young people studied to become thinking men should, in my opinion, be one of the main tasks of the university".
Frithiof Holmgren also emphasized the importance of physical education and founded the Studenternas Sharpshooting Association, the Studenternas Gymnastics Association and was chairman of the folk dance association Philochoros and promoter of the Uppsala Swimming Society.
Åke Holm was born in Norrtälje and later in life became Sweden's foremost arachnologist (spider researcher) and he is considered the creator of modern spider embryonology.
He published a number of important works on embryology and taxonomy and led research trips to Abisko and the Torneträsk area, East Africa, Spitsbergen, Greenland and Malaysia. Holm's spider research focused in particular on the Swedish mountain fauna and on the fauna of the Arctic and East Africa. One of the results was that new species were discovered.
Åke Holm with participants on one of the research trips to East Africa. Photo: The Museum of Evolution in Uppsala.
Olle Hedberg who participated in one of the research trips to East Africa. Photo: The Museum of Evolution in Uppsala.
Åke Holm was curator at the Department of Zoology 1947-1975 and as curator at the Zoological Museum he was in charge of the collections dating from the time of Linnaeus and Thunberg.
Louise Stiernstedt was born in Uppsala and was a cartoonist and graphic artist.
After studying at the Technical School in 1895-1896 and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm in 1897-1893, Stiernstedt continued his education at various schools in Italy and Munich.
Stiernstedt was a skilled woodcut and linocut artist and her art consists of portraits, landscapes and still lifes. She is represented at the National Museum.
Image description: Louise Stiernstedt, Landscape School at the Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, 1898. Back row: Helene Herslow, Astrid Kjellberg, Esther Salmson, Louise Stiernstedt, Mathilde Wigert, John Österlund, Manne Hallengren, Seth Nilsson. Front row: Herman Österlund, Professor Per Daniel Holm, Hildur Hult Photo: Unknown photographer / UUBThe image is cropped]. Click here for an uncropped image
Manne (Gustaf Emanuel) Ihran initially took over the business of his father, master tailor Erik Ihran, in Uppsala, but through contact with the artists Olof Thunman and Gusten Widerbäck became increasingly interested in artistic activities.
From left: Gusten Widerbäck, Olof Thunman and Manne Ihran, ca 1910-ca 1920. Photographer: Unknown / UUB.
Drawing of Uppsala Castle from 1914 made by Manne Ihran. Photo: UUB.
His subject matter is entirely tied to Uppsala and its surroundings, such as buildings, backyards, trees and the harbor.
Manne Ihran painted in the true spirit of national romanticism, and the atmospheric pictures of, for example, Stora Torget with the Svedberg House from 1905 are some of his most famous works.
Olof von Nackreij was born in Filipstad and became a student in Uppsala in 1743.
He was an advisor to the Göta Court of Appeal, governor of Halland and Kronoberg County, and became governor of Uppsala County in 1782. In 1778, Nackreij was elevated to the rank of baron and was one of the leaders of the Moderate Party.
The beginning of the baron's letter from 1778. Photo: UUB.
The coat of arms from the baron's letter. Photo: UUB.
Olof von Nackreij died unmarried at Uppsala Castle in 1783, thus concluding his baronial line. Nackreij had requested to be buried in the Poor Cemetery, as it was then called.
Oscar Arpi was born in Börstil in north-eastern Uppland in 1824.
Arpi was conductor of the Allmänna sången 1852-1871 and of the OD 1853-1854, and also a music teacher at the Cathedral School in Uppsala 1855-1876.
He was the leader of the Uppsala Student Union from 1852 to 1871 and led the Allmänna sången when the choir won first prize at the international singing competition for male choirs in Paris in 1867.
Oscar Arpi with baton and tuning fork, ca 1870. Photo: Heinrich Osti / UUB.
Concert poster with the General Song from 1853. Photo: UUB.
Arpi was temperamental, had a technical gift for music and a magnetic and personal conducting talent.
Ragni Kjellberg was the director of "Magdeburg" (Elementary School for Girls) and its principal from 1942 to 1969. She was also chairman of Fyrisgården and the Professional Women's Association.
In Kjellberg's memory, a memorial fund was established in her name for students with artistic talent.
Image description: Ragni Kjellberg, third from left, Uppsala 1934 at the 17th general girls' school meeting in Uppsala. Published in Upsala Nya Tidning. From left: headmaster Josef Lundén, Miss Karin Winroth and Mrs. Ragni Kjellberg, headmaster Sven Graners, headmaster Karin Akselsson, headmasters Martha Grönvall and Thyra Kullgren, and education councilors Nils Hänninger and August Johansson. Photo: Paul Sandberg / Upplandsmuseet. [The image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
