Henri Osti
1826-1914.
Photographer.
Heinrich Osti, known as Henri, was born in Berlin, the son of a ribbon weaver from Italy.
Osti emigrated to Sweden at the age of 26 and in 1856 he began his photographic career in Stockholm. Three years later he opened a photo studio on Kungsgatan in Uppsala. The studio later moved to master shoemaker Sven Anders Hägg's farm between Östra Ågatan and Gräsgränd (the park on today's Bangårdsgatan) and eventually to Jervingska gården at Kungsgatan 55.
Heinrich Osti was the city's leading photographer for many years, winning several prizes for his photographs, and together with meteorologist Hugo Hildebrandsson he also photographed cloud formations for scientific purposes.
His collection of glass negatives with 16,000 images constitutes a broad documentation of the city's settlement and population at the time. The collection is a remarkable cultural and historical treasure preserved at Uppsala University Library.
Burial site: 0108-0450
Image description: Heinrich Osti, Uppsala 1860. Photo: Heinrich Osti / UUBThe image is cropped]
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