Manne (Gustaf Emanuel) Ihran initially took over his father's, tailor Erik Ihran's business in Uppsala, but came through contact with the artists Olof Thunman and Gusten Widerbäck to increasingly take an interest in artistic activities.
From the 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 circle of motifs is completely bound to Uppsala and its surroundings, such as buildings, backyards, trees and the harbour.
Manne Ihran painted in true national romantic spirit and the mood pictures of Stora Torget with the Svedbergian house from 1905 belong to some of his most famous works.
Ragni Kjellberg was director of "Magdeburg" (Elementarläroverket for girls) and its principal from 1942 to 1969. She was also president of Fyrisgården and in the Professional Women's Association.
In Kjellberg's memory, a memorial fund was instituted in her name for students with artistic talent.
Image description: Ragni Kjellberg, third from the left, Uppsala 1934 at the 17th general girls' school meeting in Uppsala. Published in Upsala Nya Tidning. From the left Headmaster Josef Lundén, Miss Karin Winroth and Mrs Ragni Kjellberg, Principal Sven Graners, Principal Karin Akselsson, Principals Martha Grönvall and Thyra Kullgren, and the teaching councils Nils Hänninger and August Johansson. Photo: Paul Sandberg / Upplandsmuseet . [The image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
Robin Fåhræus was born in Stockholm and was professor of pathology from 1928 to 1955.
With its epochal examinations of the suspension stability of the red blood cells (ESR or sed rate), Fåhræus has reached international notoriety.
In his dissertation from 1921, The SuspensionStability of the blood, the speed with which the blood cells drop to the bottom of a test tube and the lowering reaction was described as a sensitive albeit unspecific indication of ongoing disease processes in the body.
Together with The Svedberg, Fåhræus contributed to the determination of the molecular mass of the haemoglobin.
Examples of his lifelong writing are the books Blod in the history of medicine (1924) and The History of Medicine (1944–1950).
Fåhræus, together with Anders Diös, pushed forward the restoration of the national hall at Uppsala Castle.
Image description: Robin Fåhraeus at University House, Uppsala 1955. Photo: Uppsala-Bild / Upplandsmuseet. [The image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
Anna-Ma Toll studied at the Swedish Social Institute in Stockholm from 1934 to 1936 and was educated at the Red Cross Nursing School from 1936 to 1939.
Between 1941 and 1943 she worked as a curator at the Pension Board's health board in Korseberga and as a hospital counselor at Uppsala University Hospital and was hospital curator there from 1948 to 1953.
Toll participated in the rescue effort in Hungary in 1956 and in Skopje in 1963 and was also employed for a period by Save the Children and was bureau director at SIDA from 1968 to 1980.
Image description: Anna-Ma Toll, circa 1970 from the Wennergren Center in Stockholm with staff from the Population Agency department. Photo: Pelle Stackman / SIDA. [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 Tekniska Elementarskolan in Norrköping before starting architectural studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Ekholm was inspired early by the New Renaissance, which in the future came to characterize many of the buildings he designed.
After being employed at various architectural offices and as a city engineer and builder in Oskarshamn in 1877, Ekholm became city architect in Uppsala. In the 1870s it became forbidden to build new wooden houses because of the fire risk and in Uppsala the cityscape consisted of 75 percent of wooden houses.
Ekholm designed about 150 buildings in Uppsala during his active years. He created houses in different styles such as New Renaissance, New Baroque and Art Nouveau, several of which remain. In 2005, despite protests, the so-called Bodén house and several other 19th-century houses in the block were demolished to make way for the criticized Uppsala Concert & Congress.
Österplan 13 in Uppsala, built in 1888. Photo: Unknown Photographer and Unknown Year / Upplandsmuseet.
Vaksalagatan in Uppsala in 1970. The building at the far end of the picture is Ekholm's. The block was demolished to make way for Uppsala Concert & Congress. 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 Gravkapellet at Gamla kyrkogården in Uppsala (1882-1883), Österplan 13 (1888), Dragarbrunnsgatan 48 (1889), Flickskolan Magdeburg (1890) and Regnellianum (1891-1892).
Image description: Carl Axel Ekholm and family in 1899, wife Anna Ottilia Hildegard and daughter Signe Hedvig. Photo: Heinrich Osti / UUB. [The image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
Gunnar Sundgren grew up in a sibling group of nine children at a small railway station between Sala and Gävle.
Sundgren joined H.A.L. (Cathedral School) in Uppsala in 1913 and was boarded up in a school household at Maria Lindgren's bakery on Skolgatan 13.
As a 21-year-old, Sundgren became a student of Ellen Claeson, the leading photographer in Uppsala. In 1928 he opened a portrait studio at Östra Ågatan 29 and became one of Uppsala's foremost photographers during the 1940s–1950s.
Gunnar Sundgren with the camera about 1969. Photo: Unknown photographer / UUB.
Gunnar Sundgren with the dog "Klumpen", standing on the Dombron in Uppsala sometime in the 1950s. Photo: Unknown photographer / UUB.
The portrait pictures were made after personality studies and Sundgren also produced significant environmental and architectural images.In the studio several famous people passed through, such as Hugo Alfvén, Bror Hjort, Cora Sandel, Gösta Knutsson, Axel Hägerström, The Svedberg and Bo Setterlind.
Upplandsmuseet Manages approximately 300 000 negatives from Sundgren's production.He appeared on radio as a strong agitator for photography as an art form.
During the 1950s, Gunnar Sundgren held tours of the old cemetery in Uppsala. At his grave there is a metal sculpture "Mother and Child" by an unknown artist.
Gunnar Sundgren's preserved photographs are a remarkable cultural and historical treasure.
Ebba Ruzsica Sörbom was born as Ruzsica Schreiber in a Jewish family in Novi Sad, former Yugoslavia. As a child, she spoke German, Hungarian and Serbian.
In 1944, Sörbom was taken to concentration camps where her mother and younger brother were killed in the gas chambers. After all, Sörbom survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen and came to Sweden in 1945.
She studied drama at Uppsala University, worked with drama therapy at Ulleråker Hospital and informed about the Holocaust in schools.
In 1994 Sörbom received a cultural scholarship from the municipality of Uppsala and in 1997 a scholarship from the Writers' Foundation to study at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Vienna.
The debut book "Bortom minnet, bortom glömskan" came out in 1988. Ebba Sörbom has, through her poetry, portrayed personal memories of the concentration camps and given voice to the survivors.
Rune Hammarling took correspondence courses in drawing and painting and went as an apprentice at restorer Alf Hedman in Gävle where he worked for 17 years.
In 1981 he attended a restorer training in Copenhagen and started his own business two years later.
Hammarling has restored medieval paintings in a number of Upplandic churches and also the 1900-century paintings in Uppsala Cathedral, the University House's Aula, Carolina Rediviva, Geijersgården, as well as a number of student nations and castles in Gävle and Västerås.
Image description: Rune Hammarling does restoration work in Bälinge Church, Uppland, 1989. Photo: Rune Hammarling / Upplandsmuseet. [The image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
Carl David af Wirsén was born in Vallentuna and became associate Professor in literary history in 1868 and lecturer in Swedish and Latin at the higher grammar school in Uppsala in 1870.
Wirsén published "Dikter" (1876) and later six more volumes of traditional idyllic poetry and several collections of religious poems.
The cemetery in Uppsala was given a poem and Wirsén wrote the text for the hymn "En vänlig grönskas rika dräkt" (Svenska Psalmboken, Psalm 201).
Wirsén was elected as a member of the Swedish Academy in 1879 and became its permanent secretary in 1884. As a member of the Academy, he came with his conservatism to take on a contemporary literature-repellent stance.
As a literary reviewer in Post- och Inrikes Tidningar and in Vårt Land, Wirsén could for many years express a reactionary literature view. 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 / UUB [The 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 the spice shop and milk shed and also bought some land in Rasbo (seven farms together became the property Henriksberg), followed by the distillery in Lejstabro.
To have your own distillery was banned in 1855 and in 1860, a distillery was taken over at Fabriksgatan 4 in Svartbäcken by Frans Otto Törnlund and Söderman. At that time they had enough tax-coated land to start a distillery.
"Alcohol Money" became a major part of the city's income source and also financed much of Uppsala's industrialization. Examples are the Bavarian brewery and Upsala Ångkvarn, which were bought by Söderman and Törnlund. Uppsala Ångkvarn with mill, yeast factory and distillery was at the turn of the century 1900 the city's largest workplace.
Central Uppsala, with the walls around the Fyris creek, was created during the period 1860–1890 and was financed by sales and taxation of alcohol. In the 1860's there were 29 outlets and 27 alcohol outlets in Uppsala.
Söderman was a member of the city council from 1875 to 1878 and 1883 to 1900 and a member of the Drätselchamber and the building committee.
The gravestone is likely to be the largest in the cemetery in terms of weight and volume.
