Herman Lundborg

Prof. Herman Lundborg
Born	1868
Died	1943
Residence	Jernhogatan 22, Uppsala [1935] Jernbrogattan 22, Uppsala [1937]
Occupation	medical
Society Membership membership local correspondent 1935 Hon. Fellow elected 26 Jan 1937 left 1943 deceased elected_AI 1937.01.26

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House Notes

1935.04.30 A letter was read from Germanitas Genealogiae Gothica giving the names of three members of their Society: Prof. H. Lundborg, Mr Adelbert Fredericksson and Capt. Erik C. son Swartz. It was resolved to elect them as Local Correspondents at present and at the end of the year the name [blank] to be brought forward as an Hon. Fellow
1935.12.17 The following were nominated as Hon. Fellows: Prof. H. Lundborg, Prof. Thilenius, Dr Mollison, Prof. Menghin, Prof. Martin P. Nilsson, Prof. Baron Heine-Geldern, Baron von Eickstedt and Dr Gunnar Landtman
1936.12.15 The following were nominated as Hon. Fellows, it being resolved to elect two Hon. Fellows only: Dr Teilhard du Chardin, Baron von Eickstedt, Prof. S.G. Morley, Prof. S. Zamiatnine, Prof. Lundborg.

Notes From Elsewhere

Herman Bernhard Lundborg (April 7, 1868 in Väse in Värmland, Sweden – May 9, 1943 in Östhammar in Uppland, Sweden) was a Swedish physician.
He graduated in medicine at the Karolinska Institutet in 1895, and received his doctorate at the Uppsala University in 1903. He also habilitated there that year for psychiatry and neurology, and in 1915 for racial research and racial biology.[1]
For his doctoral dissertation, Lundborg researched one of the genetic progressive myoclonus epilepsies first described by Heinrich Unverricht in 1891. Besides giving an account of the disease, he traced an affected family back to the 18th century, an analysis unique for that time.[1] He concluded that the family had genetically degenerated because of "unwise marriages".[2] The study has been described as "of considerable historic interest in human genetics".[3] Over the years, the form of epilepsy became known as the Unverricht–Lundborg disease.
He was on the editorial board of the Hereditas journal, founded 1920, with the scope on genetics.[4]
Lundborg was extremely negative towards the Jewish people, and strongly involved with the ideology of racial hygiene.[1] In the beginning of the 20th century, the idea that eugenics could improve the biological basis of society was widely held by academics and lawmakers, particularly in northern Europe and the United States. In 1922 Sweden established a eugenic governmental agency, the State Institute of Racial Biology, of which Lundborg was appointed as the head. Under his leadership, the institute began gathering copious statistics and photographs to map the racial make-up of about 100,000 Swedish people.[5]

Publications

External Publications

The Swedish nation in word and picture, together with short summaries of the contributions mades [sic] by Swedes within the fields of anthropology, ... with the cooperation of experts commissioned Paperback – 31 Aug 2012
by Herman Bernhard Lundborg (Author), John Axel Mauritz Runnström (Author)