Johanne Grieg Cederblad

1901-1979.

Author, lecturer.

Johanne Grieg Cederblad was born in Bergen, Norway.

In 1933, she settled in Uppsala and was very involved in public education. She also worked with the elderly and patients in psychiatric hospitals. Grieg Cederblad was also a children's author and lecturer.

Grieg Cederblad was also a translator of Swedish fiction into Norwegian from the time she arrived in Sweden until the late 1940s. The job was given to her by her brother Harald (founder, major owner and CEO of Gyldendal Norsk Forlag). She also wrote articles for Alle Kvinners Blad.

Johanne Grieg Cederblad and Bothild Fredriksson examine clothes collected by the Swedish Norwegian Aid. The picture is published in UNT 1940. Photo: Paul Sandberg / Upplandsmuseet.

A memorial party for Nordahl Grieg in Stockholm in 1944. Pictured, from left: Carl Cederblad, Uppsala, Mrs. Johanne Grieg Cederblad, Minister Bull, Sigurd Hoel and theatre manager Hans Jacob Nielsen. Photo: National Archives Norway.

During the war years and the German occupation of Norway, Grieg Cederblad was very active in the Norway relief effort. In 1946, she was awarded the Haakon VII Cross of Freedom for her work.

 

Burial site: 0110-0498A

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Jan "Moltas" Erikson

1932-1988.

Psychiatrist, radio and TV entertainer.

Jan "Moltas" Erikson was born in Uppsala and earned his nickname in the Uppsala Cathedral Boys' Choir.

He became particularly well known for his roles in Hasse Alfredson's and Tage Danielsson's Mosebacke Monarki and På minuten. Erikson also played some minor roles in films.

Moltas Erikson, "Even househusbands do good at home", Uppsala November 1963. Photo: Uppsala-Bild / Upplandsmuseet.

Moltas Erikson, Uppsala 1967. Photo: Uppsala-Bild / Upplandsmuseet.

He also worked as a psychiatrist at Ulleråker Hospital in Uppsala. Erikson was also a summer radio presenter on several occasions.

"Moltas" Erikson is buried together with his parents, who had the sewing accessories shop Hultmans eftr. at Svartbäcksgatan. 

 

Burial site: 0103-0198B

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Johan Henrik Schröder

1791-1857.

Archaeologist, numismatist, university librarian.

Already during his student years, Schröder was given the task of assisting in the inventory of Bishop Carl Nordin's large manuscript collection for Uppsala University Library. In 1815 Schröder was awarded a master's degree in philosophy at Uppsala University and a doctorate in literary history.

Schröder was also involved in the work on the editions of the older Swedish manuscripts Scriptores rerum Suecicarum medii aevi (three parts, 1818, 1828, 1871-1876). He was also interested in antiquities and art and made several trips through the country to record collections and archives and to describe ancient remains and documents.

Numismatics was a particular interest of Schröder's, and in 1820 he became head of Uppsala University's coin cabinet and later director of the university's museum of Nordic antiquities. Schröder's knowledge of the book trade led to him also being engaged in the cataloging and expansion of several private libraries.

In 1830, Johan Henrik Schröder became University Librarian in Uppsala and in August 1841 the book collections were transferred from the Gustavianum to the newly built Carolina Rediviva University Library. The library's staff, university and student nation caretakers, teachers and students participated in the cart transportation up Odinslund.

Schröder's contacts with private book collectors and his many acquisition trips in Europe helped to expand Uppsala University Library with a considerable amount of rarities.

 

Burial site: 0104-0247

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Margit Sahlin

1914-2003.

Priest, theologian, author.

Margit Sahlin was one of Sweden's first three female priests and was ordained in 1960 after the Church of Sweden opened its doors to female priests by a decision of the Church Council and a new law was passed in 1958 and came into force in 1959.

Before that, she had acquired a broad academic background and defended her doctoral thesis in Romance languages on the ecclesiastical dance and the folk dance song, La Carole médiévale et ses rapports avec l´église (The Medieval Dance and its Relations with the Church ). As early as 1940, her thesis was interdisciplinary.

Sahlin initiated the creation of the Catherine Foundation and was its director for a total of 34 years. The Foundation is described as a meeting place for dialogue between church and society.

Sahlin was secretary of the Central Council of the Church of Sweden from 1945 to 1970 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in theology in Uppsala in 1978.

In the 1970s, she was also vicar of the Engelbrekt parish in Stockholm. She pioneered the formation of diocesan women's councils around the country and their umbrella organization, the Church Women's Council (now Women in the Church of Sweden).

Among the many books Margit Sahlin has written are Evangelization (1947), Man and Woman in Christ's Church (1950), The Ministry of the Word in a Changing World (1959), Time for a Rethink (1980), With Peter (1982), What God is Like (1985), The Secret Book. Reading the Bible Today (1994) and Jesus. The Secret of God (1999).

The Margit Sahlin Academy was established in 2015 and is a platform for the exchange of views between research, society, culture and the church in the spirit of Margit Sahlin.

 

Burial site: 0154-0137

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Johan von Bahr

1860-1929.

Mayor of Uppsala.

Johan von Bahr was born in Stockholm and later became mayor of Uppsala.

After graduating from Uppsala Court of Appeal in 1883, von Bahr became an auditor in the Uppland Regiment in 1885, deputy chief of the court in 1886 and ombudsman at Uppsala University in 1891.

On his initiative, the so-called "von Bahrska hedge" was planted in the Löten district north of Heidenstam Square. The purpose of the hedge was to protect Uppsala from the north wind.

The hedge is one kilometer long and 100 meters wide and consists mainly of conifers. The planting work, completed in 1910, was carried out by volunteer schoolchildren who were given a practical lesson in nature at the same time.

 

Burial site: 0112-0562

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Sonja Lyttkens

1919-2014.

Mathematicians.

In 1956, Sonja Lyttkens became the second woman in Sweden to receive a doctorate in mathematics for a thesis on harmonic analysis.

In 1963, she became the country's first university lecturer in mathematics, a position she held until 1984. Lyttkens was also committed to improving the conditions for women in academia.

In addition to her work, Lyttkens devoted herself to watercolor painting and had already had several exhibitions before her retirement. Her watercolors are represented at the National Arts Council.

As late as 1986, Lyttkens published a work: General Tauberian Theorems Connected with a Theorem of Korenblum. After retirement, Lyttkens devoted himself entirely to his watercolor painting.

 

Burial site: 0327-2121

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Rosalie Olivecrona

1823-1898.

Author, women's rights activist.

Rosalie Olivecrona was one of the pioneers of the Swedish women's movement. She made significant contributions as a social commentator and women's rights campaigner.

In 1857, Olivecrona published a number of articles in Aftonbladet under the heading 'En ropandes röst i öknen'. The articles defended Fredrika Bremer's novel Hertha, which was a contribution to the debate on the authority of unmarried women.

Together with Sophie Adlersparre, she founded the Tidskrift för hemmet (Journal for the Home ) in 1859, where she published a number of texts. Internationally, she held several positions in the growing female public sphere.

Olivecrona had the main responsibility for the exhibition on women's handicrafts at the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 and had similar assignments in Philadelphia, Paris and Chicago.

Rosalie Olivecrona's literary career began in the 1840s with poems and short stories in Göteborgs Handels- och sjöfartstidning under the pseudonym La Straniera. Her poetry collection Skogsblommor was published in 1855, and later in life she published the study Mary Carpenter och hennes verksamhet (1887) and Spridda blad (1889).

 

Burial site: 0104-0255

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Axel W Persson

1888-1951.

Archaeologist.

Axel W. Persson was born in Kvidinge and was interested in archaeology from an early age.

Persson's studies and interest in the Greek language led him to become an associate professor of Greek language and literature in 1915, and of classics and ancient history in 1921. In Uppsala, Persson became professor of classics and ancient history in 1924.

Persson was the leader of successful excavations in Greece (Asine 1922-1930, Dendra and Midea 1926-1927, 1937 and 1939 and in Berbati 1936-1937) and Turkey (Milas 1938 and Labraynda 1948-1950).

Of particular note was the uncovered dome tomb at Dendra , with treasures from Mycenaean times, excavated in 1926. The discovery was described as the largest archaeological find after Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt. The tomb contained a king, a queen and a princess. In addition, precious grave goods such as gold swords and precious metal bowls were found. The finds from the dome tomb ended up in the National Museum of Athens. Persson's findings were published in scientific monographs such as The Royal tombs at Dendra near Midea (1931). This work is considered a classic.

Together with his wife, he made an important humanitarian contribution to Greece during the Second World War in the service of the Red Cross.

After the end of the Second World War, Persson carried out new excavations. In Labraynda, the aim was to find the origins of the Minoan culture. However, a temple site of classical and Roman times was found. Soon after, Persson died of a stroke.

Between 1924 and 1951, Axel W. Persson was professor of classical archaeology and, through his discoveries, his writing and his lectures, made classical archaeology known and appreciated in Sweden. Persson was awarded the Övralid Prize.

At the time of his death, Persson was considered one of the world's leading archaeologists. He is also the father of Viktor Persson, better known as Bok-Viktor.

 

Burial site: 0310-0273

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Jane Miller Thengberg

1822-1902.

Seminary teacher.

Jane Miller Thengberg was born in Greenock, Scotland, and after the death of her father, her mother moved back to Sweden with her two children.

Miller Thengberg studied education in Sweden and abroad and taught as a governess in Stockholm from 1845 to 1852. She was also a governess in Scotland for a short time.

In 1853 she moved to Uppsala, where she soon met her future husband, the librarian and teacher at the cathedral school Pehr Adrian Thengberg.

Miller Thengberg was strongly committed to the issue of girls' education. With the support of her husband Adrian Thengberg, P. D. Atterbom, Malla Silfverstolpe and Gunnar Wennerberg, she founded a girls' school in 1855 called Klosterskolan.

Teaching took place in the building on what is now Klostergatan. The school quickly gained a reputation as the best girls' school in the country. The building has its roots in the medieval settlement and is located in the block north of the old monastery area.

When Miller Thengberg was recruited eight years later as director of the Higher Teacher Training College, with a training school in Stockholm, 130 girls had been educated in the building.

She was also one of the initiators of the School of Home Economics in Uppsala.

Jane Miller Thengberg is buried at the Västgöta nations Burial site , which was donated by her husband Adrian Thengberg (died 1859) and Jane Miller Thengberg. She paid for both the long iron fence and the casting of the sculpted lion by sculptor W. Hoffman.

 

Burial site: 0119-1013

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Eva Andén

1886-1970.

Lawyer.

After graduating from high school, Eva Andén began studying law at Uppsala University and graduated in 1912.

After graduating from law school, she traveled around the country lecturing on marriage, child welfare and poor relief laws. Andén also led courses in legal knowledge for rural women, organized by the National Association for Women's Political Suffrage (LKPR).

In 1915, Andén took over a law firm for female clients, Kvinnliga juristbyrån, and three years later she became the first woman to become a member of the Swedish Bar Association.

Andén specialized in family law and mainly assisted clients in connection with divorces, inheritance, alimony, custody issues and division of property in divorces. His clients included Selma Lagerlöf and Astrid Lindgren.

Eva Andén was also a member of a committee that served as the Swedish Bar Association's referral body for family law legislation, where she occasionally had great influence.

From 1950 to 1962 she was also President of the Society of Nine. Andén practiced law until her death in 1970.

 

Burial site: 0106-0343

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