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.
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.
Robin Fåhræus was born in Stockholm and was Professor of Pathology from 1928 to 1955.
With his epoch-making investigations into the suspension stability of red blood cells (the so-called sink), Fåhræus has achieved international renown.
In his 1921 paper, The SuspensionStability of the blood, the rate at which blood cells sink to the bottom of a test tube and the sinking reaction (SR, "sinking") as a sensitive if non-specific indication of ongoing disease processes in the body was launched.
Together with The Svedberg, Fåhræus contributed to the determination of the molecular mass of hemoglobin.
Examples of his lifelong writing include the books Blood in the History of Medicine (1924) and History of Medicine (1944-1950).
Fåhræus, together with Anders Diös, was responsible for the restoration of the Hall of State at Uppsala Castle.
Image description: Robin Fåhraeus at the University House, Uppsala 1955. Photo: Uppsala-Bild / Upplandsmuseet. [The image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
Carl Axel Ekholm was born in Sund in Östergötland and was Uppsala's first city architect from 1878 to 1912.
Ekholm began his education at the Technical Elementary School in Norrköping before studying architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Ekholm was inspired early on by the Neo-Renaissance style, which came to characterize many of the buildings he designed.
After working in various architectural offices and as a city engineer and master builder in Oskarshamn in 1877, Ekholm became city architect in Uppsala. In the 1870s, due to the risk of fire, it was forbidden to build new wooden houses and in Uppsala, 75 percent of the cityscape consisted of wooden houses.
Ekholm designed around 150 buildings in Uppsala during his lifetime. He created houses in various styles such as Neo-Renaissance, Neo-Baroque and Art Nouveau, several of which are still standing. In 2005, despite protests, the so-called Bodénska huset and several other 19th-century houses in the district were demolished to make way for the criticized Uppsala Konsert & Kongress.
Österplan 13 in Uppsala, built in 1888. Photo: Unknown photographer and unknown year / Upplandsmuseet.
Vaksalagatan in Uppsala in 1970. The stone house on the far left of the picture is Ekholm's. The block was demolished to make way for Uppsala Konsert & Kongress. Photo: Ola Ehn / Upplandsmuseet.
Examples of houses that Ekholm was involved in, which are still standing are: Gästrike-Hälsinge nation (1880), Norrlands nation (1887-1889, the facade facing Fyrisån by I.G. Clason), the old burial chapel at the Old Cemetery in Uppsala (1882-1883), Österplan 13 (1888), Dragarbrunnsgatan 48 (1889), Magdeburg Girls' School (1890) and Regnellianum (1891-1892).
Image description: Carl Axel Ekholm with his family in 1899, his wife Anna Ottilia Hildegard and daughter Signe Hedvig. Photo: Heinrich Osti / UUBThe image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
Anders Gustaf Ekeberg was the son of shipbuilder Joseph Eric Ekeberg and Hedvig Ulrica Kilberg.
In 1784, Ekeberg enrolled at Uppsala University, where he was taught by Carl Peter Thunberg, among others. After graduation and study trips, Ekeberg became an associate professor of chemistry in 1794.
In 1799, Ekeberg was elected to the Royal Academy of Sciences. In 1802, he discovered the element tantalum (Ta).
An explosion in the early 1800s left Ekeberg blind in one eye.
One of Ekeberg's scientific discoveries was a method for making strong, clear and translucent porcelain. He took the secret of this method to his grave.
His friends carved his name on a stone pillar in the cemetery wall and three words in Latin: Chemico (he was a chemist) Amicitia (friendship) Memor (memory) and the year of his death in Roman letters MDCCCXIII. Photo: Henrik Zetterberg.
The picture shows the Ekeberg Prize awarded by the Tantalum-Niobium International Study Center. Photo: TIC.
In recognition of Ekeberg's pioneering work, an award was established in 2017 by the TIC (Tantalum-Niobium International Study Center), to promote the knowledge and understanding of tantalum. The award was named the Anders Gustaf Ekeberg Tantalum Prize ("Ekeberg Prize") in his memory.
Image description: Portrait of Anders Gustaf Ekeberg from Mellin, Gustaf Henrik (ed.) 427 porträtter af namnkunniga svenske män och fruntimmer, Stockholm, 1847. Photo: LIBRIS-ID:1579474The image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
Carl David af Wirsén was born in Vallentuna and later in life became an associate professor of literary history in 1868 and a lecturer in Swedish and Latin at the Högre Allmänna Löroverket in Uppsala in 1870.
Wirsén published Dikter (1876) and later a further six volumes of traditional idyllic poetry and several collections of religious poems.
The cemetery in Uppsala was honored with a poem and Wirsén wrote the text of the hymn "En vänlig grönskas rika dräkt" (Swedish Hymnal, hymn 201).
Wirsén was elected a member of the Swedish Academy in 1879 and became its permanent secretary in 1884. In this position, with his pronounced conservatism, he came to adopt an attitude that was dismissive of contemporary literature.
As a literary reviewer for Post- och Inrikes Tidningar and Vårt Land, Wirsén was able to express a reactionary view of literature for many years. A selection of his reviews can be found in Kritiker (1901).
Image description: Carl David af Wirsén, Stockholm ca 1880-ca 1890. Photo: Johannes Jaeger / UUBThe image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
Henrik Wilhelm Söderman from Österbybruk became an apprentice to the tailor Nyblom in Uppsala at the age of 14.
Later, Söderman opened a spice shop and flour mill and also bought land in Rasbo (seven farms together became the Henriksberg estate), followed by the distillery in Lejstabro.
Domestic distilling was banned in 1855 and in 1860 the distillery at Fabriksgatan 4 in Svartbäcken was taken over by Frans Otto Törnlund and Söderman. They had enough taxed land to start distilling spirits.
"Brännvinspengar" became a major source of income for the city and also financed much of Uppsala's industrialization. Examples include the Bavarian brewery and Upsala Ångkvarn, which were bought by Söderman and Törnlund. Uppsala Ångkvarn with its mill, yeast factory and distillery was the city's largest workplace at the turn of the century 1900.
Central Uppsala, with the walls around the Fyrisån river, was built between 1860 and 1890 and was financed by liquor sales and taxation. In the 1860s, there were 29 sales outlets and 27 licensed premises for alcohol in Uppsala.
Söderman was a member of the city council from 1875 to 1878 and from 1883 to 1900, as well as a member of the county chamber and the building committee.
The gravestone is probably the largest in the cemetery in terms of weight and volume and is said to have been blasted out of a rock in Vaksala.
Tycho Hedén was a trained painter and also ombudsman in the Swedish Painters' Union 1942-1954.
Hedén was interested in politics at an early age and he was the manager of Folkets hus, chairman of Uppsala arbetarekommun, chairman of Uppsala läns socialdemokratiska partidistrikt 1920-1960, member of the city council 1919-1959 and member of the county council 1930-1962.
For several decades, Tycho Hedén was a leading politician in Uppsala and influential in the city's labor movement.
New residential areas were built in Uppsala during Hedén's time, which was led by the city architect Gunnar Leche.
Fredrik Tamm was born in Tveta in Södermanland and in 1875 he defended his thesis on Swedish etymology, which is the study of the historical origins of words, and compiled the Etymological Swedish Dictionary up to and including the letter K.
Tamm devoted himself in particular to etymological work and Swedish dictionary theory. For many years Tamm deputized for the ailing professor of Swedish language, Frits Läffler. Between 1883-1898 Tamm was acting professor of Swedish language for a total of ten years.
Uppsala University tried to establish a professorship for Tamm, but it was not granted by the Royal Majesty. Maj:t, probably because at the time there was already a professor of Nordic languages and one of Swedish. In 1897, Tamm was instead given the name, honor and dignity of professor.
Soon afterwards, Tamm's wife passed away and he was diagnosed with facial cancer. The surgery he underwent left his speech severely impaired.
On his birthday, March 30, 1905, he died and Nathan Söderblom gave the eulogy in which it was said:
"No one could be a better listener than he, whether it was for funny stories or scientific lectures, which he faithfully attended to the end whenever they were offered".
Image description: Fredrik Tamm with his wife Augusta Josefina Elisabeth Lundqvist, Uppsala 1894. Photo: Alfred Dahlgren / UUBThe image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
Gabriel Wilhelm Gillberg was born in Tegelsmora in Uppland, became a citizen of Uppsala in 1840 and was a representative of the Uppsala bourgeoisie at the Riksdag in the 1840s.
Gillberg also restored his residential building at Fyristorg (between Dombron and S:t Eriks gränd) in the Italian Renaissance style. In 1935, the so-called Gillbergska thoroughfare was built, which could alleviate the city's then most difficult traffic problems.
The Gillberg House at Fyris Square, before the passage was built in 1934. Photo: Paul Sandberg / Upplandsmuseet.
Painting of the roadway before the inauguration in 1935. Photo: Paul Sandberg / Upplandsmuseet.
In the early 1860s, Gillberg became a donor to the Ultuna Agricultural Institute. He donated a large sum of money to the new building of the Academic Hospital. As a result, Gillberg was awarded the Royal Seraphim Medal.
After his death, Gillberg bequeathed a large part of his assets to the Gillberg Orphanage Foundation. Gillbergska orphanage was founded in 1843 and was first located at Tullgarn and then moved to Sysslomansgatan. Many of the children admitted were very young and had parents who lacked the ability to raise their children.
Image description: Oil painting by G. W. Gillberg. Probably painted by Alexis Wetterberg in 1858. The portrait shows the Seraphim Medal. Photo: Henrik Zetterberg. The painting is in the archives of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. [The image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
