Lars "Lasse" Eriksson was born in Piteå, and moved to Uppsala at a young age.
He started his theater career in the 1970s when he played with Panikteatern in Uppsala.
Eriksson became known to TV audiences in the early 1980s with her observations and as a presenter of various entertainment programs.
Eriksson was also known as a stand-up comedian and published several books. In addition to his participation in a number of anthologies, he published humorous books, such as De norrbottniska satansverserna (2006) and I huvudet på en orolig komiker (2011).
Lasse Eriksson died on stage during a performance at Reginateatern in Uppsala.
Otto von Friesen was born in Kulltorps parish, Jönköping county, and his most important scientific works deal with runic writing.
In 1897 von Friesen became an associate professor of Nordic languages at Uppsala University.
He published Om runskrifts härkomst (1906) and Rökstenen (1920), in which he claimed that the enigmatic stone is about a conflict between Ostrogoths and Frisian merchants.
During the years 1905-1936, von Friesen was a professor of Swedish language, became a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1928 and was elected to the Swedish Academy in 1929.
Gusten (Erik Gustaf) Widerbäck is an artist from Uppsala and the Uppland plain, although he was born in Södra Vi in Kalmar County.
He began studying music under Ruben Liljefors, but was encouraged to devote himself to oil painting by Ruben's brother Bruno, who gave him support and help. Widerbäck received his formal training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1899 and at the Artists' Association School in 1900.
After studying art in Stockholm, Widerbäck returned to his childhood town of Uppsala. Widerbäck moved to Årsta, just east of Uppsala, in 1918 and lived there until his death in 1970.
Throughout his 70-year career as an artist, he depicted the plains and the city. Widerbäck's art is characterized by the mood painting of National Romanticism, and he paid lyrical attention to the plains, trees and houses.
Widerbäck spent a lot of time with Olof Thunman and Manne Ihran and had exhibitions in Uppsala, Gävle, Stockholm and Gothenburg.
Shortly before his death, he donated a large number of sketches, drawings, watercolors and gouaches to Upplands konstmuseum. Gusten Widerbäck is represented at the National Museum, in Kalmar, Uppsala University Library and Uppsala Art Association.
Lithograph. Landscape view - Uppsala from the south with Uppsala Castle and Uppsala Cathedral in the background. Gusten Widerbäck 1922, photo: Olle Norling / Upplandsmuseet.
Gusten Widerbäck at work in Uppsala in August 1958. Photo: Uppsala-Bild / Upplandsmuseet.
Svante Arrhenius was born at Wik Castle outside Uppsala, where his father was a steward.
He was one of the foremost natural scientists of his time and was the first Swede to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1903 for his work on the electrolytic dissociation theory from 1887. It completely changed chemists' understanding of acids, bases and salts.
From the mid-1890s, Arrhenius' interests expanded to geophysics and cosmic physics. He considered himself a physicist but his main discoveries were mainly in chemistry.
From 1905 Arrhenius was the director of the Nobel Institute for Physical Chemistry, established by the Academy of Sciences in the same year.
Arrhenius also became internationally known as a popular science writer through the publication of The Evolution of Worlds (1906), Man in the Face of the World Riddle (1907), Smallpox and its Control (1930), The Fate of the Stars (1915) and Chemistry and Modern Life (1919).
Image description: Svante Arrhenius, year unknown. Photo: Unknown photographer / Tekniska Museet. [The image is cropped] Click here for an uncropped image
Rutger Sernander became associate professor of plant geography in 1895 and later professor of plant biology from 1908 to 1931.
His research areas included plant distribution biology, lichen biology, forestry, dendrology, archaeology, and the development of climate and plant life in Scandinavia after the ice ages.
Sernander was an internationally recognized scientist and among his works are Den skandinaviska vegetationens spridningsbiologi (1901) and Zur Morphologie der Diasporen (1927).
Sernander also wrote about important places from a natural and cultural point of view. In particular, he wrote about Uppland and Gamla Uppsala, Rickebasta träsk, Flottsund and also the book about Uppsala Kungsäng, which Gustav Sandberg completed and published.
Sernander led an intense struggle to preserve unique plant communities, such as Fiby primeval forest and Uppsala Kungsäng. The platform for nature conservation work became the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, which Sernander helped to found in 1909, and was its chairman from 1917-1930.
Professor Sernander with students before 1944, Uppsala University. Photo: Paul Sandberg / Upplandsmuseet.
Professor Sernander on Upplands fornminnesförenings spring excursion, Uppland 1936. Photo: Paul Sandberg / Upplandsmuseet.
Adolf Nyman's father Anders Nyman started a precision engineering workshop in 1873 at Dragarbrunnsgatan 25 in Uppsala and began repairing bicycles with high front wheels in the 1880s.
The first bicycle was built in 1888 and can be considered the Nymans company's first bicycle. After the father's death in 1889, the business was taken over by his widow, who handed over the workshop to her sons Adolf and Janne, who began manufacturing Hermes and Crescent bicycles. Bicycle manufacturing developed into one of the city's largest industries.
The workshop, which was converted into a limited company in 1889 under the name Nymans verkstäder AB, moved to the block at S:t Persgatan 28-30 and became one of Uppsala's largest industrial companies with 1500 employees in the 1950s.
In 1947, the name was changed to Nymansbolagen, which in 1960 merged with the Monark bicycle factory in Varberg. Operations in Uppsala ceased in 1963.
Group photo of the staff at AB Nyman's workshops in the early 1900s, taken with the factory in the background. Photo: Emil L:son Finn / Upplandsmuseet.
Assembly of bicycles, AB Nymans Verkstäder, Noatun block, Uppsala 1939. Photo: Östlings foto / Upplandsmuseet.
Karl Gustaf Lennander became a student in Uppsala in 1875 and later an associate professor and professor of surgery and obstetrics in 1891.
With him, modern abdominal surgery began in Sweden and in 1889 the first operation for peritonitis (inflammation of the peritoneum) originating from the appendix was performed. Lennander presented the results in 1902, when he also recommended early surgery for appendicitis (inflammation of the appendix). Lennander published several studies in surgery and gynecology.
Lennander became a member of the Society of Science in Uppsala in 1893, the Society of Science and Literature in Gothenburg in 1902 and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1905. Lennander's large fortune was bequeathed to a scholarship fund at Uppsala University and to the Swedish Medical Society.
Surgery course, fall semester 1890. Professor Karl Gustaf Lennander (sitting in a light-colored coat near the operating table) with students Lindblad, Segerstedt, Floderus, Strandman, Kaijser, Olsson, Wennerström, Didriksson, Bodinsson, Nilsson. Photo: UUB.
Doctors at Uppsala University Hospital in 1889. Around the portraits are photographs of Fyrisån, Uppsala University Hospital, the harbor with the Pump House and the Department of Anatomy, Uppsala University, the staircase in the university building, the Botanical Garden, view of Uppsala University Hospital and the castle and cathedral, Flustret. Photo: Heinrich Osti / UUB.
Anders Jonas Ångström is best known as one of the founders of optical spectroscopy.
Ångström was the first to observe the spectrum of hydrogen, an observation that formed the basis of Balmer's formula and thus provided the experimental foundation for Bohr's atomic theory.
Ångström studied the solar spectrum in detail, in particular the Fraunhofer lines. His study Recherches sur le spectre solaire (1868) contained a precise determination of the wavelengths of the Fraunhofer lines. In addition, Ångström made regular observations at several locations in order to obtain a complete picture of magnetic conditions in Sweden.
Ångström was also the first to investigate the aurora borealis spectrometrically. The unit of light wavelength he introduced, corresponding to 0.1 nanometers, was adopted as the international unit and named ångström.
Anders Ångström was professor of physics from 1858 to 1874 and was elected to the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1850.
In 1996, the Ångström Laboratory was inaugurated on Polacksbacken, where a number of scientific disciplines related to physics and chemistry have their research centers.
Måns von Rosenstein, Carl's older brother, became a lieutenant in the army navy in 1774.
Between 1776-1778 he served in the British Navy, taking part in Sir Peter Parker's squadron in the West Indies and witnessing the Battle of Quessant against France. As a French naval officer, Rosenstein took part in the American War of Independence, was captured by his former commander Admiral Parker, and taken to England.
On his return to Sweden in 1783, he became a second major in the army's navy. Rosenstein particularly distinguished himself in the first battle of Svensksund on August 24, 1789. He and his ship Oden managed to hold off the Russian fleet, only to be forced to strike the flag after which he was captured.
At the end of the war in 1790, Rosenstein became a colonel in the army and seven years later a rear admiral.
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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.
