Tycho Hedén was a trained painter and also an ombudsman in the Swedish painters Union 1942–1954.
Hedén was interested in politics and he was the director of Folkets Hus, chairman of Uppsala Workers municipality, chairman of Uppsala County Social Democratic Party District 1920–1960, member of the city council from 1919 to 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 labour movement.
New residential areas were built in Uppsala during Hedén's time, which was led by City architect Gunnar Leche.
Fredrik Tamm was born in Tveta in Södermanland and defended 1875 with a treatise on Swedish etymology, which is the doctrine of Proverbs ' historical origins and elaborated Etymological Swedish dictionary through the letter K.
Tamm devoted himself especially to etymological works and Swedish dictionary theory. For many years, Tamm stood in for the ailing professor of Swedish, Frits Läffler. From 1883-1898, Tamm was acting professor of Swedish for a total of ten years.
Uppsala University attempted to establish a professorship for Tamm, but it was not granted by the Royal Council. Maj:t, probably because at the time there was already a professor of Nordic languages and one of Swedish language. 1897 Tamm instead received the name, honour and dignity of professor.
Shortly afterwards, Tamm's wife passed away and he was diagnosed with facial cancer. The operation he underwent left him with a severe speech impediment.
On his birthday, March 30, 1905 he died and Nathan Söderblom held the eulogy in which was said:
"No one could be a better listener than he, this whether it was funny stories or scientific lectures, the latter, which he to the end, faithfully visited, whereever they were offered".
Image description: Fredrik Tamm with his wife Augusta Josefina Elisabeth Lundqvist, Uppsala 1894. Photo: Alfred Dahlgren / UUB. [The image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
Johan Fredrik Carlsson was born in Mådra Skog Torp in Almunge and established himself as a master Smith in the old former mill smith at Akademikvarnen in the middle of Uppsala.
When the cathedral was restored in the 1880 century, Carlsson made the locks to the church gates. As an entrepreneur he was engaged by Uppsala City in 1910 when the gas-water and sewer lines were to be placed in the streets (J. F. Carlsson's Pipeline store).
Johan Fredrik Carlson sat in the city Council for 24 years, was one of the principals of Uppsala Savings Bank, member of the Board of Gillbergska Children's House Fund and for the Technical school, member of the Borgerskapets Elder and Gävle Chamber of Commerce and member of Uppsala Missionary Association.
Image descriptionJohan Fredrik Carlsson, possibly in 1915. Photo: Unknown photographer / Swedish Portrait Archive (CC BY-SA 4.0[The image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
Martin Edlund grew up in Börje outside of Uppsala. As a teenager, Edlund came to his uncle Gustaf Edlund who owned the mill at Vasksala Torg.
In 1914 Edlund became CEO of Uppsala Roller Mill as the uncle had bought up and expanded the business by contract with Skellefteå Baker Karl Lundström, who on Edlund's proposal marketed the Uppsala company's flour under the name Vasa with the King's picture on the packaging.
Lundström later started Wasabröd in Filipstad. In 1917 Edlund began manufacturing Vasa steam prepared oats and oatmeal.
Later, Holmgrens ättiksfabrik was bought and turned into Uppsala Ättiksfabrik AB, whose main product was mustard. It then changed its name to Slotts AB.
The technically talented german engineer Bruno Knebel was brought in (who became production manager) and Edlund managed to obtain a world patent on their closed system for the production of biological vinegar.
In 1936 Edlund in addition founded, The Uppsala Silk weaving factory with a noted children's crib for the children of the employees. He also started Children colony in Örsand (opposite Skokloster) and was a leader in the Children's Day movement.
Herman Baumbach was born near Grästorp and is commonly referred to as the most famous perpetual student. He came to Uppsala in 1876 and completed his Bachelors at 61 years of age after 84 terms of studies. He belonged to the Västgöta nation from 1876 until his death in 1931.
Pencil drawing of Herman Baumbach, drawn by Carl Lindorm Möllersvärd. Photo: UUB.
Booklet with 20 drawings made by the artist Lindorm Möllerswärd. The motifs are famous profiles in Uppsala, including Herman Baumbach. Photo: Anja Szyszkiewicz / Upplandsmuseet.
Baumbach focused his studies on Latin, German and English and he achieved high grades. With a bowler hat, big overcoat and screaky galoshes, Baumbach became a sight in the city.
Johanne Grieg Cederblad was born in Bergen, Norway.
In 1933 she settled in Uppsala and was very involved in popular education. She also worked with elderly care and patients in psychiatric hospitals. Grieg Cederblad was also a children's book author and lecturer.
Grieg Cederblad was also a translator of Swedish fiction to Norwegian from the time she came to Sweden until the end of the 1940s. She employed by her brother Harald (founder, major shareholder and CEO of Gyldendal Norsk Forlag). She also wrote articles in Alle Kvinners Blad.
Johanne Grieg Cederblad and Bothild Fredriksson examine the garments collected by the Swedish Norway help (during WWII). The picture is published in UNT 1940. Photo: Paul Sandberg / Upplandsmuseet.
A memorial festival for the Nordahl Grieg in Stockholm in 1944. In the photo, from the left: Grammar school lecturer Carl Cederblad, Uppsala, Mrs Johanne Grieg Cederblad, Minister Bull, Sigurd Hoel and theatre director Hans Jacob Nielsen. Photo: National Archives of Norway.
During the war years and during the German occupation of Norway, Grieg Cederblad was very active in the Norway help. In 1946, she was awarded King Haakon VII's Cross of freedom for her work.
Jan "Moltas" Erikson was born in Uppsala and got his nickname in the Uppsala Cathedral Boys Choir.
He was particularly well known for his participation in Hasse Alfredson's and Tage Danielsson's Mosebacke monarchy and In a minute. Erikson also made some minor roles on film.
Moltas Erikson, "Even the father of the house makes good use 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 host on Radio on several occasions.
"Moltas" Erikson is buried together with his parents, who had the sewing shop Sybehörsaffären Hultman Eftr. at Svartbäcksgatan.
Finn Malmgren was born in Gothenburg. In 1912 he begun studying at Uppsala University where he completed a bachelor's degree in Mathematics, physics and chemistry.
Malmgren later participated in the polar researcher Roald Amundsen's expedition to the glacial sea as assistant to the scientist Harald Ulrik Sverdrup.
On-board the ship Maud, they left the Nome in Alaska in the summer of 1922 to, after spending three and half years on the ice, return to Alaska in August in 1925. Together they managed to collect a large research material and several observations.
Malgren defended, in 1927, a Ph.D. thesis on the properties of the sea ice. Later, Malmgren was associate professor in meteorology.
Finn Malmgren, May 1925, in front of the magnetic observation field. Photo: Stockholm University.
Finn Malmgren, May 1925 at his hoarfrost registrator. Photo: Harald Ulrik Sverdrup / Stockholm University.
At the North Pole expedition with the airship Italia in 1928, it crashed on the ice north of Spitsbergen. After a long walk, Finn Malmgren died and his remains remained on the ice. Part of the expedition was rescued by the Russian icebreaker Krassin.
Malmgren's name is on the Västmanlands-Dala nation's website Burial site and a statue of him, made by sculptor Nils Sjögren, was erected in 1931 in Börjeparken next to the Västmanland-Dala nation. The Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University awards a prize every three years in his memory for "contributions to Arctic research".
Margit Sahlin was one of Sweden's first three female priests and ordained in 1960 when the Swedish church, through a Council decision, let women become priests. A new law was made in 1958 and came into force in 1959.
Prior to that she had acquired a broad academic background and a doctorate in Romance languages about the Church dance and the Folk dance song, La Carole médiévale et ses rapports avec l´Église (the medieval dance and its contact with the church). Already in 1940, she is interdisciplinary in her dissertation.
Sahlin took the initiative to the formation of Katharina 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 Swedish Church's central Council in 1945-1970 and was appointed honorary Doctorate of Theology in Uppsala in 1978.
In the 1970s she was also vicar of the Engelbrekt parish in Stockholm. She performed a pioneering work through the formation of the Diocese Women's council around the country and its umbrella organization ecclesiastical Women's Council (today women in the Swedish church). In 1995 she received the Equality Prize from the Minister for Equality Marita Ulvskog.
Among the several books Margit Sahlin has written are Evangelisation (1947), Man and Woman in the Church of Christ (1950), The Service of the Word in a Changed World (1959), Time for Rethinking (1980), With Peter (1982), Hurdan is God (1985), The Secretive Book. Reading the Bible Today (1994) and Jesus. The Secret of God (1999).
The Margit Sahlin Academy was established in 2015 and is the platform for exchange of views between science, society, culture, and Church in Margit Sahlin's spirit.
Image description: Margit Sahlin at her summer house in Dalarna, unknown year. Photo: Ulf Palm. [The image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
Johan von Bahr was born in Stockholm and later became mayor of Uppsala.
After completing the court degree in Uppsala in 1883, von Bahr was auditor at Uppland's Regiment in 1885, Vice District Judge in 1886 and in 1891 ombudsman at Uppsala University. In 1915 he became mayor of Uppsala.
On his initiative, the later so-called "von Bahrian Hedge" was planted in the district Löten north of the Heidenstam Square. The purpose of the hedge was to protect Uppsala against wind.
The hedge is one kilometer long and 100 meters wide and consists mainly of conifers. The planting work, which was completed in 1910, was carried out by voluntary school children, who at the same time received a practical lesson in natural science.
