Carl Magnus Furst

Prof. Carl Magnus Furst
Born	1854
Died	1935
Residence	Universitet, Lund, Sweden
Occupation	medical anatomist academic
Society Membership membership Hon. Fellow left 1935 deceased elected_AI 1932.01.26

Notes

House Notes

1931.05.19 The following were nominated as Honorary Fellows: Dr Davidson Black, Dr W.E. Roth, Dr Bach, Tompa, Karl Furst, S. Sergi, Count Begouen, Dr Sapir, Dr Wissler
1931.12.15 The following were nominated as Hon. Fellows: Dr Ferenc Tompa, Dr C. Wissler, Dr P.H. Buck, Dr Bosch Gimpera, Prof. C.M. Furst, Dr Felix F. Outes, Dr Speiser and Prof. Menghin.
death noted in Report of the Council 1934-1935

Notes From Elsewhere

Carl Magnus Fürst , born December 14, 1854 in Karlskrona , died on April 12, 1935 in Lund was a Swedish doctor and professor . [ 1 ] He was a cousin of Thorvald Fürst .
Carl Magnus Fürst came from the family Fürst , a family of deeply established doctoral traditions. Both his father and his grandfather and grandfather's father served as a doctor at the fleet in Karlskrona. The father, Carl Absalon Fürst , was the first battalionist in Karlskrona and married Betty Wilhelmina Hubendick, half sister to Carl Jacob Hubendick . He was a good friend of Prince Oscar, then Oscar II, and was for a time his doctor; He died young at an outbreak of meningitis. Carl Magnus Fürst's older brother was the senior engineer at Härnösand's shipyard and mechanical workshop Oscar Fredrik Fürst (1850-1926).

Carl Magnus Fürst became a student in Uppsala 1874, a medical candidate in Stockholm 1882, a medical licentiate in Lund in 1885, a medical doctor in 1887, an extraordinary professor of anatomy and histology in 1888. He was the regular professor of anatomy in Lund in 1904-1919, becoming a commander of the first class, the North Star Order of 1898.

Fürst married in Oslo in 1885 with Hanna Olga Haanshus (1863-1938), daughter of the pharmacist Ole Andreas Haanshus and Hanna Olberg. Both their son Carl Andreas (born 1888), as two sons, Bo Eskil (born 1919) and Carl Sigvard (born 1921) eventually became a doctor. The daughter Sigrid Betty Fürst (1894-1922) married the hunter Ludvig Mattsson-Mårn.

Fürst was buried in the family burial at the monastery church in Lund.

Among Fürst's anatomical writings, Contribution to the knowledge of the structure and development of the carcasses is noted (graduation, 1886) Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Scheide der Nervenfasern (in the "Morphologische Arbeiten", band 6, 1896), Der Musculus Popliteus und Seine Sehne (in the Physiographical Society's documents , 1903), Zur Kenntniss der Histogenese und des Wachsthums der Retina (ibid., 1904).

In addition, Fürst devoted himself to ethnographic and anthropological research and published in the latter area, among other things in association with Gustaf Retzius , Anthropologia suecica. Beiträge zur Anthropologie der Schweden (1902; av Science Academy awarded with the Letterstedt Prize ), a work based on anthropological surveys of 44,939 21-year-old conscriptors. [ 2 ] Also referred to as Zur Kraniologie der Schwedischen Steinzeit (1912), bringing very new material in addition to Retzius "Crania suecica antiqua", Crania Groenlandica (in conjunction with Frederik Carl Christian Hansen , 1915), Three-tailed Swedish Cranes from Older Age (in " Lund University's Annual Report ", 1913), Some Newly Finished Three-String Swedish Old Cranes (in the" Ancestors "1917), Neolithische Schädel von der Insel Ösel (in the" Baltische Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte ", 1914), When the dead witness (1920) summary of his important studies and results, and Magnus Ladulås and Karl Knutsson's graves in the Riddarholm Church (1921). In July 1917, Fürst led the official investigation of the remains of Charles XII in the Riddarholm church . Fürst strongly rejected Sven Nilsson's conclusions of his studies of cranial material from the stone age graves of the younger Stone Age and contemporary skull material in the Scandinavian people's inhabitants that our ancestors were patches. [ 3 ]

In addition to the history of Swedish medicine, Fürst submitted contributions through the publication of Anders Retzius's letter to Arvid Henrik Florman (1896), through essays on Florman and Veterinary Science (in the University of Aarhus, 35, 1899), and Kilian Stobæus, the elder and his correspondence (ibid . 1907) and more.

Carl Magnus Fürst and Gustaf Retzius were confronted with the rashygienic movement when one of the two German chiefs, Ernst Rüdin , in the summer of 1907, visited Sweden in a sense and recruitment of Retzius and Fürst. On Fürst's initiative, however, the two Swedish anatomies chose to reject the invitator because he perceived its missionary community commitment to the Nordic race's defense as incompatible with their position as scientists. [ 4 ] When the Swedish Society of Racial Hygiene was formed in 1909, both Retzius and Fürst were absent. [ 5 ] In 1920, however, Fürst was one of the prominent scientists who, along with a broad opinion, including Prime Minister Hjalmar Branting , supported the Riksdag motion for the establishment of a state institute for racial biology . [ 6 ] In 1936, the year after Fürst's death, was published on Bonniers Publishing the Human Sisters and Modern Breed Issues of Gaston Backman , who dedicated his work to Carl Magnus Fürst, the freed Swedish anthropologist in honor of the author . From Backman's preface, p. 5 of the book, it is clear that Professor CM Fürst, who assisted me with literature and instructions, is also very grateful to me. ... Lund, 12th September, 1934.

Carl Magnus Fürst was for a while Anders Zorn's teacher in anatomy. As an inspector of the South Swedish Gymnastics Institute and a member of the large gymnastics committee, Fürst contributed to the development and spread of Swedish gymnastics. Fürst became a member of the Physiographic Society in Lund in 1890, of the Faculty of History, History and Antiquity (1908) and the Swedish Academy of Sciences (same year), and a PhD in medicine honorary doctorate at Kristiania University (1911). Carl Magnus Fürst was also chairman of the Medical Association from its formation in 1894 until 1914 and became a member of the same association in connection with his resignation as chairman.

Publications

External Publications

CRANIA GROENLANDICA: A Description of Greenland Eskimo Crania with an Introduction on the Geography and History of Greenland.1915