August Haglund became a citizen in 1862 and opened his own business in Lodénska huset at Stora torget.
When Uplandsbanken was founded, he became its first bookkeeper and was then bank cashier until his retirement. Haglund wrote poems for family celebrations and was a musician in the Skarpskyttekårens orchestra.
He is best known for his donation of SEK 50,000 in 1901 for a new bridge over Fyrisån at Skolgatan. The bridge is also known today as "Haglund's bridge" and replaced the previous bridge built on the site in 1889.
The former bridge was moved north (to Odensgatan) and named "Eddaspången" after the Edda neighborhood. The rafting on last April usually starts just north of Haglund's bridge.
Lars Erstrand was one of the great names in Swedish jazz in the 20th century. He became "Mister Swing" with the jazz public and was a big name in both Swedish and international jazz.
He started playing piano but switched to vibraphone after being influenced by vibraphonist Lionel Hampton's playing in Benny Goodman's orchestra.
From the 1960s onwards, Erstrand worked with clarinettist Ove Lind.
His international breakthrough came in the 1970s when he played with Benny Goodman and later with clarinetists Bob Wilber and 'Peanuts' Hucko.
Lars Erstrand also performed with Sven Asmussen and Alice Babs, and from the 1990s played with Arne Domnerus and in the quartet Swedish Swing Society.
Frithiof Holmgren established Sweden's first physiological laboratory in 1862 and became the country's first professor of physiology at the age of 33. He was also one of the most prominent teachers of his time at Uppsala University.
He became a world-famous scientist with the discovery of the retinal blood flow in the eye.
The studies of color blindness made Holmgren internationally known and in 1874 he described his method of using differently colored "sequined dolls", the so-called wool yarn test, to detect color blindness.
The method was of great practical importance for people in signal service, such as railway staff and seamen. A train accident in Lagerlunda in 1875 was suspected to have been caused by the inability of a dead engineer to distinguish between red and green. No one had considered that color vision could be important for railway personnel.
The equipment used by Holmgren to discover the retinal current, the electrical response of the retina to light. The equipment consists of a mirror galvanometer and a light catcher with a clockwork that drives the mirror. Photo: Museum of Medical History in Uppsala.
Sefirgarns dolls for carrying out the test of color vision developed by Holmgren, which became compulsory for all those to be employed in rail and maritime traffic. Photo: Museum of Medical History in Uppsala.
A more macabre study undertaken by Holmgren focused on whether beheading was a painless method of execution. Holmgren therefore attended four beheadings to examine the method from a physiological point of view. According to Holmgren, the case studies showed that beheading as a method met the requirements of painlessness. When the study was completed, he was also present at the execution of the so-called Alfta murderer in Gävle in 1893.
Holmgren also participated in the debates in Verdandi, and his radical stance was reflected in his dictation to the minutes of the consistory:
"I hold freedom of thought to be one of man's most precious privileges, and the university in which the principle of freedom of thought is not paramount does not, in my opinion, fulfill its task. To educate the young people studied to become thinking men should, in my opinion, be one of the main tasks of the university".
Frithiof Holmgren also emphasized the importance of physical education and founded the Studenternas Sharpshooting Association, the Studenternas Gymnastics Association and was chairman of the folk dance association Philochoros and promoter of the Uppsala Swimming Society.
Åke Holm was born in Norrtälje and later in life became Sweden's foremost arachnologist (spider researcher) and he is considered the creator of modern spider embryonology.
He published a number of important works on embryology and taxonomy and led research trips to Abisko and the Torneträsk area, East Africa, Spitsbergen, Greenland and Malaysia. Holm's spider research focused in particular on the Swedish mountain fauna and on the fauna of the Arctic and East Africa. One of the results was that new species were discovered.
Åke Holm with participants on one of the research trips to East Africa. Photo: The Museum of Evolution in Uppsala.
Olle Hedberg who participated in one of the research trips to East Africa. Photo: The Museum of Evolution in Uppsala.
Åke Holm was curator at the Department of Zoology 1947-1975 and as curator at the Zoological Museum he was in charge of the collections dating from the time of Linnaeus and Thunberg.
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.
Olof von Nackreij was born in Filipstad and became a student in Uppsala in 1743.
He was an advisor to the Göta Court of Appeal, governor of Halland and Kronoberg County, and became governor of Uppsala County in 1782. In 1778, Nackreij was elevated to the rank of baron and was one of the leaders of the Moderate Party.
The beginning of the baron's letter from 1778. Photo: UUB.
The coat of arms from the baron's letter. Photo: UUB.
Olof von Nackreij died unmarried at Uppsala Castle in 1783, thus concluding his baronial line. Nackreij had requested to be buried in the Poor Cemetery, as it was then called.
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
Gunnar Sundgren grew up in a family of nine children at a small railway station between Sala and Gävle.
Sundgren started at H.A.L. (Katedralskolan) in Uppsala in 1913 and was housed in a school household at Maria Lindgren's bakery at Skolgatan 13.
At the age of 21, Sundgren was accepted as a student of Ellen Claeson, the leading photographer in Uppsala at the time. In 1928 he opened a portrait studio at Östra Ågatan 29 and became one of Uppsala's foremost photographers in the 1940s and 1950s.
Gunnar Sundgren at the camera around 1969. Photo: Unknown photographer / UUB.
Gunnar Sundgren with his dog Klumpen, standing on Dombron in Uppsala sometime in the 1950s. Photo: Unknown photographer / UUB.
The portraits were made after in-depth personality studies, and Sundgren also produced significant environmental and architectural images.Several famous people passed through the studio, such as Hugo Alfvén, Bror Hjort, Cora Sandel, Gösta Knutsson, Axel Hägerström, The Svedberg and Bo Setterlind.
Upplandsmuseet holds approximately 300,000 negatives from Sundgren's production.He appeared on the radio as a strong agitator for photography as a separate art form.
In the 1950s, Gunnar Sundgren led guided tours of the Old Cemetery in Uppsala. At the gravesite there is a metal sculpture "Mother and Child" by an unknown artist.
Gunnar Sundgren's preserved photographs are a remarkable cultural and historical treasure.
