Donations through the centuries – Uppsala University

DONA TIONS CENTURIES THROUGH THE

Uppsala University’s ultimate goal is for our research and education to make a difference in society in the long term. For more than half a millennium, our curiosity-driven quest for knowledge has created solutions to common challenges. In our time, we are determined to move forward in the same spirit with undiminished energy and to further strengthen our leading position.

Research conducted at Uppsala University helps us understand our society, makes the world a better place and improves many people’s quality of life – research that provides both new perspectives on fundamental scientific issues and knowledge that contributes to environmental sustainability, human health and social progress.

Academic research is also an engine of innovation and added value, with current advances building on traditions of knowledge with deep historical roots. Carl Linnaeus, Anders Celsius, Olof Rudbeck, Arne Beurling and Torgny Segerstedt are just a few of the notable names from Uppsala’s history. Over the course of the centuries, many more of our scholars and scientists have played crucial roles in epoch-making breakthroughs that we now take for granted.

In 2027 Uppsala University will be 550 years old. This anniversary comes at a time of multiple and complex global challenges. With our strong basic research, boundless interdisciplinary challengedriven inquiry and global outlook, we are well equipped to contribute to solutions. For most of our history, generous donations from private individuals, foundations and businesses have contributed to the University’s progress. These gifts have given young people the opportunity to study. They have offered our researchers the resources needed to take decisive steps that have led to knowledge breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. And they have endowed us with buildings and priceless works of art and artefacts.

Etymologically, the word philanthropy means ‘love of humankind’. And indeed, the philanthropists presented in this publication are distinguished by their devotion to humankind, as well as to science, culture and social development. Some have donated staggering amounts, others comparatively modest sums. But all of them have made vital contributions to the development of our University, to the advancement of science and scholarship, and as a result to the progress of society for more than 500 years.

To all our historical and contemporary philanthropists, I would like to express my and Uppsala University’s heartfelt thanks.

ANDERS HAGFELDT VICE-CHANCELLOR, UPPSALA UNIVERSITY

THIS PUBLICATION IS AN OFFPRINT OF THE ARTICLE “DONATIONS TO UPPSALA UNIVERSITY CONTINUE”, WRITTEN BY THE FORMER UNIVERSITY DIRECTOR OF UPPSALA UNIVERSITY, MATS OLA OTTOSSON, FROM THE VOLUME “GÅRDAR, GODS, DONATIONER. AKADEMIFÖRVALTNINGEN I UPPSALA 1624–2024” (“ESTATES, PROPERTY, DONATIONS. UPPSALA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONS MANAGEMENT OF ESTATES AND FUNDS 1624–2024”) (ISBN 978-91-513-2179-0).

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Gustaf II Adolf’s donation from the Gustavian estate from 1624 began

lively tradition of donations to Uppsala University. The King is shown here in an image photographed by Uppsala publisher and publicist Pehr Hanselli, probably sometime during the 1860s. The photograph belongs to the National Library.

Donations to Uppsala University continue

IN AUGUST 2024, Uppsala University is celebrating the 400th anniversary of Gustaf II Adolf’s significant donation to the University, which funded much of the University’s activities until the 1800s. But donations to Uppsala University are not merely a thing of the past. On the contrary, they form part of a tradition that is very much alive, and the following gives some examples that illustrate how generous donors have helped to develop and strengthen many of the University’s activities over the years since then, and right up until our time.

It is the donor who decides what their donated funds are to be used for, but the breadth of their interests means that donations have been made to virtually all areas of education, research and cultural heritage covered in the University. The following examples concern donations made during the period from the beginning of the 1800s right up to the present day.

Donations to the University can take various forms, but today they are often in the form of foundations that are managed by the Uppsala University Foundations Management of Estates and Funds on behalf of the University. The most common of these are scholarship foundations, some of which are described in the following. The scholarships may be intended for members of a particular student nation, or for those studying certain subjects, but many are open to applications from all students at Uppsala University. Other donations may include funds for research or professorial chairs in specific subject areas, new research laboratories, or real estate in Uppsala or beyond. Examples of donations of this kind are also given below.

When the University receives a donation, it undertakes to manage the funds in accordance with the donor’s wishes. Due to changes in circumstances, in some cases it may become unfeasible to follow the donor’s wishes, in which case the University may apply to the Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency

(Kammarkollegiet) to grant a derogation from the conditions of the donation – in other words, a change in these conditions that can still support the purpose decided by the donor in another equivalent way. In such cases, the change must always depart as little as possible from what was expressed in the donation’s original conditions.

Foundations in various forms have existed in Sweden since early Christian times, but it was not until the 1990s, through the 1994 Foundations Act, that a legal definition of a foundation was created. Since then, all foundations in Sweden must have the word foundation (stiftelse) in their names; before then, they were often called gifts (gåvor) or funds (fonder).

In the case of a few donations, the University has decided to supplement the donation with its own funds to ensure that the donation has its intended effect. But in general a donation does not include a request for additional funding or other initiatives. In a very few cases, some donors in the distant past have requested that the University care for their grave.

Many previous donations have been bequests in a will, but in recent times it has become more and more common for donors to donate funds during their lifetime for a purpose that they want to support and develop. This also fosters an ongoing relationship between the donor and the University that is appreciated by both parties.

The following brief descriptions of a number of donations and the people behind them are each illustrated with two images: a photograph or a portrait of the donor or donors, and an image illustrating how the donation is used or otherwise relating to the donor or the donation

MATS OLA OTTOSSON

Jonas Stecksén. Portrait by Lene Aronsson, based on a miniature by an unknown artist.

Jonas Stecksén

JONAS STECKSÉN was born in Sundsvall in 1773 and grew up in Umeå, where his father was a teacher. His mother was a younger sister of Matthias Norberg, professor of Oriental languages and Greek in Lund, and he was enrolled at Lund University as an 18-year-old. After some years of study, he was involved in a riot triggered by students not being allowed to attend a ball in the city. Some of the students were fined, but Stecksén avoided any unpleasant consequences by leaving Lund and going to Gothenburg, where he became a merchant. He then went to sea, purchasing a ship named Argus.

When the Continental System was proclaimed by Napoleon, Denmark-Norway declared war on Sweden in 1808, which led to extensive privateering activities operating out of Gothenburg. Stecksén fitted out the Argus for privateering speed and captured many enemy ships, but in 1810 was captured himself by a privateer, and was imprisoned for some time in Dunkirk before being released and able to return to Sweden.

Matthias Norberg then wanted to donate funds to a professorship for Stecksén at Lund University. By then, Stecksén had mastered all the major European languages, and despite many years of opposition from the university’s academic leadership, he was appointed professor of ‘living languages’ in 1816. He thus became Sweden’s first professor of modern languages, lecturing in French and German and giving private lessons in English.

Due to his former non-academic life and his rough manners from a life at sea, Stecksén was held in contempt by other professors in Lund, so he decided to bequeath everything he owned to Uppsala University. After his death in 1835, some Norrland cousins contested this bequest, but Lund University, which had jurisdiction in the case, rejected their claim to his estate. They took their case to the Court of Appeal, but the Court upheld the university’s judgment.

Stecksén’s home, with all its personal property, was sold at auction, and the proceeds of the sale formed a fund at Uppsala University. In honour of his uncle and

benefactor, Stecksén had decided in his will that the fund should be called the Matthias Norberg Savings Fund. However, the will specified that the arable land outside Lund that Stecksén owned was not to be sold. Instead the land was to be leased by Uppsala University. Eventually, however, this became an obstacle to the development of the city of Lund, and with the Swedish Government’s permission, the land was sold to the city in 1955 and 1965.

In keeping with the provisions of Stecksén’s will, the savings fund was later divided into two funds at the disposal of the University and the Norrland student nation in Uppsala. Today, they are foundations with total assets of over SEK 200 million. Among other things, the University foundation finances special lectures and academic festivities, and the Norrland student nation foundation funds grants for nation members and maintenance of the principal nation building.

Banquet in the Hall of State in Uppsala Castle after a conferment of doctoral degrees ceremony. Photo: Tommy Westberg.

Anders Fredrik Regnell portrayed in a lithograph by Rudolf Widing held in the National Library. Photo: David Naylor.

Anders Fredrik Regnell

ANDERS FREDRIK REGNELl was born in Stockholm in 1807, the son of an unmarried maid, and grew up in poverty. After having been a foster child for some time, at the age of six he came to live with his hitherto absent father Anders Regnell, who lived in Uppsala. But during his subsequent schooling and university studies, he still mostly resided with a widow in the city.

At the age of eight, Regnell started school at Uppsala Cathedral School (Katedralskolan). With good grades from there, he was admitted to Uppsala University in 1824, where he completed preparatory academic degrees. His main interest was botany, which was then seen as closely associated with medicine, and from 1830 he studied at the University’s Faculty of Medicine. In 1836 he defended his thesis on rickets, and in the following year graduated as a doctor of medicine. During his studies, he held some positions as a physician, including at the Seraphim Hospital in Stockholm.

In his youth, Regnell had trouble with his lungs. His health improved during a year as a ship’s doctor on a corvette in the Mediterranean, and so when he received a request from the Swedish Consul-General in Rio de Janeiro in 1840 to come and work as a doctor in Brazil, he accepted. He then settled into the community of Caldas, where he received many visitors from Sweden. Although he never returned to his home country, he kept in touch with Sweden and Swedish research institutes with the help of his former classmate from Katedralskolan, Isaac Gustaf Clason, an övermasmästare (overseer of pig iron and wrought iron production) at Jernkontoret (the Swedish Ironmasters’ Association).

In Caldas, Regnell enjoyed a good reputation as a doctor and earned a good income. This allowed him to acquire medical instruments and purchase new medical literature. He also became known as the local moneylender, and as collateral for unpaid loans he sometimes took over landed estates, coffee plantations and slaves, which he later sold. As a wealthy man, he was able to provide support to relatives and others in need, and he

also began to make donations for various purposes. The first of these from 1859 was a travel grant for botanical studies.

Regnell was Uppsala University’s leading donor during the 1800s. For example, he paid for the construction of a new department building for physiology and pathology at Slottsgränd in central Uppsala – the Regnellianum. He also donated funds to the work of the departments of medicine, botany and zoology and for scholarships awarded to teachers and students. These other donations today constitute foundations for specific purposes and have a total market value of more than SEK 100 million.

At the celebrations in 1877 on the occasion of the University’s 400th anniversary, Regnell was awarded an honorary doctorate in absentia at the Faculty of Arts, and after his death in 1884, a memorial was held in the University’s then banqueting hall in Carolina Rediviva.

Regnellianum building donated by Regnell with the inscription "Donavit Regnell" over the entrance. Photo: David Naylor.

Lotten von Kræmer. Photo: Johannes Jaeger.

Lotten von Kræmer

LOTTEN VON KRÆMER was born in Stockholm in 1828. Her mother Maria Charlotta was the daughter of wholesale merchant Anders Petter Söderberg, owner of Stenhammar Castle outside Flen, and her father Robert von Kræmer was appointed county governor in Uppsala in 1830. Lotten von Kræmer therefore grew up at Uppsala Castle. Women were still prevented from taking academic degrees at the time, but she was taught at home by lecturers from Uppsala University.

The von Kræmer family moved in cultural circles, and Lotten was an active and popular participant in the city’s social and intellectual life. She participated in literary salons, danced at balls and acted in amateur theatrical productions. At the age of 14, she became ill with scarlet fever, causing hearing loss that led to deafness as she grew older.

Lotten von Kræmer made her literary début with a collection of poems in 1863 and later wrote tribute poems, travel stories, plays and articles on aesthetics and religious topics. She took a radical stance on women’s rights issues at the time, which is evident in her texts. For a long time, she was secretly engaged to docent in aesthetics Sten Johan Stenberg, but the engagement was dissolved and she remained unmarried.

Lotten von Kræmer made her first donation to Uppsala University in 1871, when she supplemented the surplus from two theatrical events with her own funds. The University received 1,229 riksdaler riksmynt (in 1873 replaced by the Swedish krona) for a fund, whose annual interest was to accrue to a “deserving female student”. It was only the year before that the University had opened up to women, and in her deed of gift, Lotten von Kraemer wrote that if there were no female students for a particular year, the interest was to be added to the capital. The first scholarship was awarded in 1873 to Hildegard Björck, who six years later received a Bachelor of Medicine degree, the first woman in Sweden to be awarded this degree.

Lotten von Kræmer inherited a considerable fortune from her parents. She used it to start a literary magazine

and support movements that promoted women’s suffrage and other social reforms. She also purchased a house at Villagatan 14 in Stockholm, where she lived from 1879 until her death in 1912. It was then taken over by Samfundet De Nio (the Academy of the Nine) in 1913, a literary academy established at that time in accordance with a provision in her will.

Another provision in the will was a fund of SEK 9,000 to supplement the fund from 1871. The supplementary fund was to be called the Lotten von Kræmer Scholarship Fund for female medical students at Uppsala Academy, and the University combined her two donations into one fund with that name. Today, it is a foundation with assets amounting to SEK 1.5 million. More than 100 students apply for the scholarship annually, and the scholarship amounts to around SEK 40,000.

Hildegard Björck. Photo: Gösta Florman.

John Bjorkén. Photo: Henri Osti.

John Björkén

JOHN (JOHAN) BJÖRKÉN was born in 1833 to a Finnish-speaking family in the village of Koivukylä in Norrbotten, where his father owned a freehold farm. He went to school in Haparanda and Härnösand. He took the name Björkén from the village of his birth (Koivukylä is the Finnish word for Björkbyn). He was admitted to Uppsala University in 1852 and began studying medicine. He completed some studies at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, but degrees could only be awarded from universities in this period, and in 1860 he was awarded a licentiate in medicine from Uppsala University.

Bjorkén then supplemented his education with study trips to several countries in Europe. In total, he spent almost three years abroad, expanding his knowledge in medicine considerably. On his first trip, surgery and ophthalmology were his focus – the latter area in particular was developing rapidly in some of the countries he visited. He wrote letters to Sweden describing his travels, some of which were published in the Swedish Medical Society’s journal Hygiea

After returning from that trip in 1862, Björkén became a research fellow at the Seraphim Hospital, and the following year he defended his doctoral thesis on cataract surgery in Uppsala and gained the rank of docent. He then took a second, longer trip abroad, focusing on syphilis. He wrote letters to Hygiea on this topic and applied, without success, for a professorial chair in syphilology at Karolinska Institutet.

In 1865, Björkén was appointed a lecturer in surgery and obstetrics at Uppsala University, and he remained in that position until his death in 1893. As a teacher he was well-liked, and he also operated a large private practice. His clientele included ophthalmology patients but were primarily patients with venereal disease, and the fees he charged enabled him to amass a considerable fortune.

The year before his death, Bjorkén wrote a will in which he stipulated that most of his assets were to form a fund managed by Uppsala University. It was to give the University the opportunity to reward researchers

in the fields of botany, zoology, chemistry, mineralogy and metallurgy, geology, physics, mechanics and engineering, as well as landscape description and the theoretical aspects of medicine. Relatives of Bjorkén sued the University and demanded that the will should be disallowed, but they did not pursue their claim in court.

The fund originally amounted to SEK 100,000, and according to the by-laws that the University established, and which are largely still valid, the return on the fund was to be used for a prize. The capital today forms a foundation with assets of approximately SEK 10 million. The prize is one of the University’s most prestigious, and it has been awarded without interruption since 1902, usually to an individual researcher though on occasion two people have shared it. The prize today amounts to around SEK 300,000.

Uppsala University’s Vice-Chancellor Anders Hagfeldt presents the 2023 Bjorkén Prize to Professor Dan I. Andersson. Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt.

Vilhelm Ekman.

Vilhelm Ekman

VILHELM EKMAN was born in Uppsala in 1823, the son of a goldsmith. He was apprenticed to a merchant, but later gained an education in engineering, and from 1850 he worked for a time at an ironworks in Hofors in Gästrikland. He then went into the forestry business until he was offered employment in Uplands Enskilda Bank in 1865. It had been founded the year before by Wilhelm Ulander, whom Ekman had got to know when they both worked in a shop in Uppsala.

Ekman worked at the bank for thirty years, first as a teller and later as head teller. The bank was subsequently part of a series of mergers with other banks, and today its operations can be said to be part of Nordea bank. As a banker, Ekman had a reputation for orderliness and a profound sense of justice. He also had intellectual interests and many friends among Uppsala’s academia.

Combined with his thrift, Ekman’s private business activities led to him becoming the owner of a large fortune. He never married, and started making donations during his lifetime. In September 1899, the year before his death, he wrote a will witnessed by professors Axel Erdmann and Carl Wahlund. They stated there that they knew Ekman personally, but that the contents of his will had not been made known to them. Nevertheless, it has been assumed that they had a hand in its provisions, given that one of the main points in the will was that SEK 100,000 would accrue to Uppsala University “so as to, to the extent that I am able, facilitate this University’s work, which I hold in high esteem, for the development of the sciences and the culture of my native country”.

The will also stipulated that the Upland and GästrikeHälsinge student nations should each be allocated SEK 10,000 for scholarships for needy and diligent students. Another provision in the will was SEK 15,000 to Uppsala’s University Hospital for two free beds, which were to bear the names of his two deceased sisters.

The purpose of the University fund was to enable affiliated researchers to receive grants for printing costs and translation fees when they wanted to publish their

findings. A small portion of the return on the fund could also be awarded for the publication of scholarly journals. Decisions on grants were to be made by a board of members elected from the different faculties, with the University Librarian as an ex officio member.

To all intents and purposes, these provisions governing the use of the University fund still apply to what is now the Vilhelm Ekman Foundation. Its assets today amount to approximately SEK 20 million and the annual dividends amount to approximately SEK 500,000.

Vilhelm Ekman facilitated the printing of scholarly works through his donation. The image shows a number of books written by, or with the participation of, Uppsala researchers, which have been printed with support from the Vilhelm Ekman Foundation. Photo: Mats Ola Ottosson.

Robert Bünsow.

Robert Bünsow

ROBERT BÜNSOW was born in Sundsvall in 1861. His father had moved from Germany to Sweden in 1845 and established himself as a forest and sawmill owner in Sundsvall. In 1880, Bünsow graduated from a school in Hudiksvall and became a student at Uppsala University that same year. There he obtained a lower civil servant degree (kansliexamen) in 1889, and after a couple of years working at the National Board of Trade, he served at the Swedish-Norwegian consulates in France and England in the 1890s.

After his foreign service as a consul, Bünsow returned to Sweden and settled in Stockholm, where he built the Bünsowska villa in 1919 in Diplomatstaden, a neighbourhood in the Östermalm district of central Stockholm. Like his father, he was a generous donor to Uppsala University. He supported zoology research in particular, and made a donation to the University in 1909 of SEK 35,000. Part of this was to be used to fund a journal in which findings from the Department of Zoology’s research could be published, with the rest to form a fund whose return was to be used to support zoology research at the University.

The journal was called Zoologiska bidrag från Uppsala (Contributions to zoology from Uppsala). Its first issue was published in 1911, and it was published without interruption until the end of the 1960s, when research findings began to be more frequently published in international journals. The fund that was created at the time is now called the Bünsowska Foundation. Its assets amount to approximately SEK 9 million, and the return on these assets is at the disposal of the Animal Ecology Programme at the Department of Ecology and Genetics.

Bünsow’s friend Gustaf Kolthoff, a curator at the University’s zoology museum, introduced him to marine zoologist Adolf Appellöf. After many years working in Bergen, Norway, Appellöf had been appointed professor of comparative anatomy in Uppsala. In 1915, this led to a new donation from Bünsow in the form of a research station in Gullmarsfjorden near Lysekil. The station was

set up in Fiskebäckskil and was given the name Klubban Biological Station.

A condition of Bünsow’s donation was that Appellöf would be the station’s director, and Appellöf remained in this position until his death in 1921. He developed marine biology in Sweden into a modern scientific discipline and prior to his death in 1939, Bünsow saw the station grow into a model facility conducting research and education.

Research at the station has declined in recent years, and today it is primarily used for education. Now part of the University’s Biology Education Centre, it gives Uppsala students in Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes excellent opportunities to study marine biology in the field. Around ten courses are conducted at the station annually, and at other times it is often hired out to other Swedish or foreign universities or to upper secondary schools in Sweden.

Klubban Biological Station in Gullmarsfjorden.

Photo: Anna Maria Wremp.

Therese Andersson. Photo: Aug. Sjöbergs Klichéanstalt.

Therese Andersson

THERESE ANDERSSON was born in Stockholm in 1843, the daughter of Conrad Theodor Svanberg, a manufacturer and later a member of the Riksdag. In 1867, she married master builder Johan Andersson, who constructed many buildings in Stockholm, making himself a fortune in the process. After his death in 1897, Therese Andersson supported charities with the assets she had inherited until she died in 1922.

In January 1910, Therese Andersson gave SEK 40,000 to Uppsala University for the construction of a residence for the head of the Department of Physics. The residence was to be built next to the Fysikum building which was completed in 1909. She made the donation in memory of her friends professor of physics Anders Jonas Ångström and his wife Augusta, and it was mediated by Hélène Ångström, wife of their son Knut Ångström, who was then head of the Department of Physics.

As head of department, Knut Ångström already had an official residence in the building adjacent to Carolinaparken that had been constructed to house the departments of chemistry and physics in the 1850s. But Therese Andersson wanted to make the office of department head more attractive by providing free accommodation in a villa. Architect Ture Stenberg reworked old drawings by Ernst Stenhammar, and Villa Therese Andersson was built in the Art Nouveau style in 1912–13. Knut Ångström had died in March 1910 at the age of 53, and his successor Gustaf Granqvist became the first head of the Department of Physics to occupy the Villa.

In later years, both Manne Siegbahn and his son Kai Siegbahn, both Nobel Laureates in Physics, lived in the Villa. It was subsequently deemed no longer suitable for residential purposes. At the University’s request, in 1984 the Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency therefore granted a derogation from the donation’s provisions so that the Department of Physics could instead use the Villa for research purposes. However, when the Department moved to the newly constructed Ångström Laboratory further to the south in 2000, this was no longer

practicable. After yet another request for a derogation from the donation’s provisions, the Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency decided that the University could sell the Villa, and that the proceeds from the sale would form a foundation, the returns on which would be used to support research at the department, in particular the research activities of the head of department and newly recruited teaching staff.

The sale took time because the University had previously handed over the property to the state, but a decision by the Riksdag in 2010 led to the state relinquishing its ownership. In the same year, the Villa was listed as an historic building following a decision by the Uppsala County Administrative Board. By then it was in need of renovation, and a major refurbishment took place in 2016.

In 2018, the Villa was finally sold for SEK 1.5 million and was taken over by a real estate consortium within the Uppsala University Foundations Management of Estates and Funds. The purchase price was used to form Stiftelsen Fru Therese Anderssons donation (the Therese Andersson Donation Foundation), with its return allocated to research in accordance with the Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency’s most recent decision. The building is still called Villa Therese Andersson and is currently leased to the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), which uses it for offices and accommodation for its visiting research fellows.

Villa Therese Andersson, named after its donor, in the Kemikum district in Uppsala. Photo: Carl-Erik Alnavik.

Victor Napoleon Marin. Photo: Gösta Florman.

Victor Napoleon Marin

VICTOR NAPOLEON MARIN was born in 1842, the son of a farmer. He took his school-leaving exam in Uppsala in 1860 and his military studies degree (officersexamen) in Stockholm in 1862. After that, he served in the Västernorrland Regiment (or Vesternorrland Conscript Battalion, as the unit was named when he became a second lieutenant in 1868). He was promoted to lieutenant in 1872 and captain in 1885. For many years, he led military exercises at the school in Härnösand. He became a Knight of the Royal Order of the Sword in 1889 and ended his military career as a major in 1896.

In 1910, Marin made a will in which he stipulated that his estate should form a scholarship fund at Uppsala University. The scholarship recipients were to be men with a long ancestry in Sweden and who came from one of the provinces he specified in the will. His male relatives on the paternal side were to have precedence. If multiple applicants met the requirements, the applicant who was the most well-built and of the most pleasing physical appearance was to be chosen.

In his will, Marin also stipulated that the rights to his mother’s grave at Gamla kyrkogården (the Old Cemetery) in Uppsala should be held by the scholarship fund, which would also be responsible for its maintenance. He himself wished to be laid to rest in the same grave, and when a holder of the scholarship died, he too could be buried there, if those closest to him so wished.

A year after Marin’s death in 1911, Uppsala University received a letter from his relative Carl Ferdinand Marin. He did not lay claim to any inheritance but proposed a set of rules for the scholarship with some changes and clarifications in relation to the will. The capital donated by Marin amounted to SEK 48,000 and it grew rapidly, partly due to a provision in the will that half the return each year should be added to the capital, and partly because of the very limited number of applicants who met the peculiar criteria for a scholarship.

In 1995, the fund was declared a foundation and in light of its outdated criteria for a scholarship, and the

foundation’s ever-increasing market value, the University applied to the Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency to make changes in the criteria. In 2020, the Agency decided that the criteria governing the distribution of the return on the foundation’s assets could not be changed, but did grant the University’s request to refrain from applying the provisions that referred to native Swedish ancestry and the physique of scholarship holders. This means that the Marin Scholarship Foundation can now announce and award scholarships without these peculiar criteria. The foundation’s assets amount to over SEK 35 million, and in recent years between ten and twenty scholarships have been awarded with scholarships amounting to SEK 30,000 per semester, with the goal of rapidly reducing the accumulated surplus.

The memorial on the grave in the Old Cemetery in Uppsala, where Marin rests with his mother. Thus far, no scholarship holder has been interred here. Photo: Mats Ola Ottosson.

Elsa Eschelsson

Elsa Eschelsson

ELSA ESCHELSSON was born in Norrköping in 1861, the youngest of four sisters. The family were well off, and after private tuition at home, she took her matriculation exam in 1882. She moved to Uppsala for her university studies, where her sister Ida lived with her husband, professor of criminal law Johan Hagströmer, and they became an important source of support for her. She had an active social life without neglecting her studies, and in 1885 she earned a Bachelor’s degree, majoring in history. She then went on an extended trip abroad and on her return began studying law, earning a Bachelor juris utriusque (of civil and canon law) degree in 1892.

After serving on the court of Uppsala County’s southern judicial district, Elsa Eschelsson began a research project that ended with her successfully defending her doctoral thesis in 1897 entitled Om begreppet gåfva enligt svensk rätt (On the concept of ‘gift’ in Swedish law). She became Sweden’s first female Doctor of Laws. With a grade of Laudatur (the highest possible grade) for her thesis, she also became Sweden’s first female docent, which opened the way for her to an academic career.

The Faculty of Law proposed that she should take up the vacant professorship in private law, but this was rejected by the Chancellor of the Swedish Universities Pehr von Ehrenheim on the grounds that the lecture catalogue had already been printed, according to which she was to lecture in procedural law. This meant that he could avoid applying Section 28 of the Instrument of Government, which at the time required that holders of high office in the service of the state must be ‘nativeborn Swedish men’. When the Faculty later proposed that she should hold the professorship in procedural law, the Chancellor’s decision was again negative. Despite these setbacks and despite the fact that she was undermined by several male professors, she remained as a lecturer at the University. She was the coordinator for the preparatory course in law, and in 1906 she was awarded the prestigious prize of the annual interest from Oscar II’s Jubilee Donation.

In January 1911, a Committee appointed by the King in Council proposed that professorial chairs should be made open to women in certain subject areas, but these did not include private, criminal or procedural law, since a professor in these subjects should have served as a judge, and a career as judge was not open to women. After having been thwarted for a long time, and having recently become seriously ill, Elsa Eschelsson’s hopes for a professorship had now been dashed. She was found unconscious in her bed one day in March 1911 after taking an overdose of sleeping pills. She died a few days later.

Elsa Eschelsson left no will, but based on statements and notes, her heirs, who were her sisters, presented SEK 60,000 to the University for the establishment of a scholarship fund for female law students. The fund today forms a foundation with assets of approximately SEK 10 million. The scholarships are not just reserved for Uppsala students, but can also be applied for by female law students attending other universities.

The title page of Elsa Eschelsson’s highly praised doctoral thesis "Om begreppet gåfva enligt svensk rätt" (1897) (On the concept of ‘gift’ in Swedish law).

Carl Wahlund. Photo: Emile Valery.

Carl Wahlund

CARL WAHLUND was born in Kristinehamn in 1846, the son of a mill owner. He was enrolled at Uppsala University in 1864, studied Romance languages, and in 1875 gained the rank of docent in French. He spent a lot of time in France and used to represent Uppsala University at French university anniversaries. In Uppsala, for a time he taught French at the Högre allmänna läroverket för flickor (public high school for girls) and for many years he led the University’s Romance languages seminar. He also filled in as examiner in Romance languages when the regular professor was on leave.

From his parents, Wahlund inherited a fortune that made him financially independent. He therefore declined to apply for professorial chairs, but in 1892 received the title of professor. In 1881, he acquired a property on St Johannesgatan in Uppsala, which he named Bortom Bullret (roughly, ‘far from the noise’). The building itself was quite dilapidated when he moved in, but he transformed it into an elegant bachelor’s residence with a beautiful garden which he used extensively for entertaining.

Wahlund was a bibliophile and built up a very large library of Provençal and Old French texts comprising about 6,500 volumes and pamphlets. In 1892, he donated the Provençal collection to the Uppsala University Library, and the Romance languages collection was deposited there the following year. It then became the property of the University Library as a bequest after Wahlund’s death in 1913. He also donated SEK 30,000 for the care and development of his collections, and they are still largely cohesive as Bibliothèque Wahlund.

Wahlund donated the property on St Johannesgatan to Uppsala University in his will, with the proviso that it would be used in a fit manner for Romance languages studies at the University. With the permission of the King in Council, the University decided that this could best be done by selling it and using the proceeds of the sale for the donation’s purpose. So already in 1913, the property was sold for SEK 40,000 to the Kalmar student nation,

which lacked premises of its own. The student nation used Bortom Bullret for student housing and for its curator’s office, but after some forty years the building was close to falling down. It was demolished in 1957 and the student nation has since offered student housing and other services in other buildings nearby.

A fund was formed by the University from the proceeds of the sale of Bortom Bullret that accrued to the University. According to the rules from 1914, the return on the fund’s assets was to be used for travel grants, for research studies at the University, or for printing scholarly works. The capital still remains in the current Carl Wahlund Foundation, which today has assets amounting to over SEK 5 million. The rules were updated in 1991, but support is still provided from the return for the purposes specified by Wahlund in his will – primarily for doctoral students and early-career researchers at the Division for Romance Languages at the University’s Department of Modern Languages.

The legendary "Bortom Bullret" on St Johannesgatan in Uppsala.

Carl Swartz. Photo belonging to the Norrköping city archives.

Carl Swartz

CARL SWARTZ was born in Norrköping in 1858, where his father owned a tobacco company founded in the 1750s. After taking his school-leaving exam in his home town, he first studied in Bonn, but by 1879 he was enrolled at Uppsala University where he completed a preparatory law degree. After his father’s death, he took over the management of the family business in Norrköping at the age of only 23. There, he also held several positions of trust and was for a time the deputy mayor of the city council.

These local roles were gradually supplemented with national ones, especially in the areas of insurance and transport, and in 1889 he became a member of the Riksdag’s First Chamber for the city of Norrköping. When Arvid Lindman’s conservative government took office in 1906, Swartz became Minister of Finance. He was responsible for a series of tax reforms, such as the introduction of self-assessments for income and wealth taxes and a progressive taxation system.

When Lindman resigned after the 1911 Second Chamber elections, Swartz left the government and instead was given leading roles in the Riksdag, including as chair of the Standing Committee of Supply (statsutskottet). There he worked to meet the needs of universities as far as possible, and with almost all the votes from Sweden’s universities, in 1916 he was elected Chancellor of the Swedish Universities, a role he retained until his death in 1926. He made himself familiar with the conditions of the universities and was able to act as a spokesperson for their interests. Former Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University, Olof Hammarsten who, like Swartz, was a native of Norrköping, was often his advisor on various matters.

For Sweden, the 1910s were a turbulent time. Liberal politician Karl Staaff resigned as Prime Minister after the Courtyard Crisis in 1914 and was succeeded by Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, who led a caretaker government. Following the party truce during the first years of World War I, Hammarskjöld was forced to resign in March

1917, and Swartz was then commissioned to form a government. He led that government, despite hunger riots and rumours of revolution, until the Second Chamber elections in the autumn of the same year, when it was replaced by a coalition government of Liberals and Social Democrats.

Carl Swartz and his wife Dagmar wrote a common will in 1926, which the latter added to in 1931. One provision in this will stipulated that SEK 100,000 would go to Uppsala University to form the Carl Swartz Memorial Fund. The return on its assets was to be freely used by the University Board for the promotion of scientific research or teaching. The fund is now a foundation called the Carl Swartz Foundation and its assets amount to approximately SEK 6 million. Every year, a few hundred thousand kronor are paid out from the foundation.

In 1937, the University decided on the composition of a special committee that would make decisions on grants based on applications received, but in 1978 that decision was amended so that the University’s ordinary scholarships committee now acts as the decisionmaking body for this foundation as well as for a large number of other foundations.

The obverse and reverse sides of the medal that Uppsala University had minted for Carl Swartz’s time as Chancellor of the Swedish Universities.

Carl Malmén. Photo: Johannes Jaeger.

Carl Malmén

CARL MALMÉN was born in 1862 at Söder Malma Farm in Estuna parish in Uppland, the son of a farmer. He was enrolled at Uppsala University in 1881, took a Master’s degree in laws (hovrättsexamen) in 1884 and became a deputy circuit judge in 1889. After that, he worked for several years as a military judge with the Södermanland Regiment, but at the same time held other positions, including as an assistant judge on the Svea Court of Appeal. In 1893, he was employed as secretary in the National Board of Trade and there was made head of the maritime safety division in 1904.

In his role as division head, Malmén published a handbook on the registration of ships, but became better known for his work on the modernisation of the maritime safety legislation that resulted in the 1914 Ship Inspection Act (lag om tillsyn på fartyg). He also led the revision of Sweden’s sea pilot statutes. During a reorganisation of the National Board of Trade in 1920, he became the head of the newly established trade division that dealt with foreign trade matters.

In 1900 Malmén became the owner of the Norr Malma estate by Lake Erken north of Norrtälje. It consisted of buildings and a large woodland, and in a will from 1923 he donated it to Uppsala University. The University was not allowed to sell it, but its natural beauty and Lake Erken’s abundance of fish and crayfish were to be preserved for posterity. The donation also included a cash amount of SEK 3,000.

With the donation, the Malménska studiefonden (Malmén study fund) was formed, and with the exception of 400 kilos of rye which were to go to the poor relief board of Estuna parish, the annual yield from the estate was to be used for scholarships for students with satisfactory grades and of good repute. Malmén’s relatives had precedence and, until 2050, also researchers studying fish and crustaceans, in particular in Lake Erken. The cash amount was to be used for purchases of new furniture and fixtures for the estate.

Carl Malmén died in 1928 and the University accepted the donation, the value of which was deemed to be SEK 72,000. The award of scholarships from the fund ended up being delayed and it was not until 1944 that a set of rules for the Malmén study fund was decided. In the same year, the University decided to start a limnology research laboratory at Norra Malma. At first, only a simple cottage was used, but in the 1950s the farmhouse was renovated and a laboratory was built with funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.

The Erken Laboratory is currently part of the University’s Department of Ecology and Genetics, which conducts research and education. The laboratory also conducts extensive outreach activities, such as excursion days for school classes to study inland waters. The Malmén study fund still exists, but now as a foundation with assets amounting to about SEK 50 million, and annually it awards around ten scholarships totalling between SEK 500,000 and SEK 1 million to undergraduate and postgraduate students in limnology.

Doctoral students and researchers working on the shore of Lake Erken.

Photo: Gesa Weyhenmeyer.

Claes and Hilda Annerstedt photographed aboard the vessel "Tärnan".

Claes and Hilda Annerstedt

CLAES ANNERSTEDT was born in Uppsala in 1839. His father Rudolf Annerstedt was the principal of Uppsala Cathedral School (Katedralskolan), and his son Claes grew up at the Geijer Farmhouse (Geijersgården), which his father had purchased from Erik Gustaf Geijer. In 1883, he married Hilda Bergman, who was born in Gothenburg in 1860. He gained his PhD in 1869 and attained the rank of docent in history in the same year. He then occupied various teaching posts at the University and held the professorial chair in history for a few years.

Ahead of the University’s 400th anniversary in 1877, Annerstedt undertook to write its history, and a first volume was completed for the celebrations. After being appointed head of the University Library in 1883, he instead devoted his energies to the development of the library. He led a restoration of the rather neglected library, expanding its collections of literature and modernising its premises. After his retirement in 1904, he continued to write the history of the University and published four more thick volumes, the last in 1914.

In addition to his work at the University, for several years Annerstedt served on the Uppsala City Council and for a time also on the Uppsala County Council, for a few years as its chair. In 1901 he was elected a member of the Swedish Academy.

According to the joint will of Claes and Hilda Annerstedt from 1918, SEK 400,000 of their estate was to go to Uppsala University and form a fund for pensions for the widows or minor children of deceased employees of the University. Claes Annerstedt died in 1927, and in a codicil to the couple’s will that Hilda Annerstedt wrote in 1929, she wanted the Geijer Farmhouse, where the couple had lived, to be included in the University’s share of her estate along with the adjacent Ihre Farmhouse (Ihregården), which they had also owned.

Hilda Annerstedt died in 1933 and after negotiations with the executors of her will, the University took over these buildings for SEK 165,000, leaving SEK 235,000 for the pension fund. The Geijer Farmhouse, which has

been used by the Dag Hammarskjöld Memorial Fund since 1966, was badly damaged by fire in 1982, but was restored the following year. Both farmhouses are now listed buildings. Ownership of them was transferred to the Uppsala University Foundations Management of Estates and Funds in 1998, and the Claes and Hilda Annerstedt pension fund was declared a foundation, with capital corresponding to the value of the farmhouses then added to the foundation’s assets.

At the end of 2022, the foundation’s assets were just over SEK 14 million. Decisions on the use of the return are made by the University’s Family Pension Committee, and in recent years the grants made from the foundation have amounted to around SEK 400,000 per year. The rules governing these grants that the University established based on the will have since been amended, so that now not only widows but also widowers, cohabiting partners and registered partners can be beneficiaries.

The Geijer Farmhouse on Öfre Slottsgatan in Uppsala. Carl-Erik Alnavik’s photograph was taken during the restoration of the crosses on Uppsala Cathedral’s turrets in 2019–21, hence the crane.

Karin and Herbert Jacobsson, portrayed by Helmer MasOlle. Both portraits belong to Uppsala University’s art collections.

Herbert and Karin Jacobsson

HERBERT JACOBSSON was born in Gothenburg in 1878 and was the son of a captain of the Göta Artillery Regiment. He also chose a military career for himself, and in 1900 completed his military studies degree (officersexamen). He became a lieutenant in 1904 and, like his father, served for a time in a Romanian artillery regiment in Bucharest. He was promoted to captain in 1913 and remained in the regiment until 1927 when, with the rank of major, he transferred to the military reserve force. In 1909, he married Katarina (Karin) Broström, born the same year as himself and the youngest daughter of shipowner Axel Broström, and he subsequently held several positions on the boards of companies within the Broström Group. After his brother-in-law Dan Broström died in a traffic accident in 1925, he became a leading figure in the group and took over responsibility for its shipping business.

The Jacobssons managed a significant portfolio of financial assets and began making donations for scientific purposes. In 1936, they donated SEK 100,000 to oceanography research in Gothenburg, and Professor Theodor (The) Svedberg at Uppsala University contacted them about a possible donation for a professorial chair in biochemistry in Uppsala. He wanted his former student and colleague Arne Tiselius to be appointed to the chair.

Arne Tiselius was born in 1902 and had defended his PhD thesis in 1930 on the electrophoresis technique as a method for separating protein molecules. Later, he had spent some time as a Rockefeller scholarship holder at Princeton University in the US. In 1936, he had been unsuccessful in the competition for the professorial chair in general and organic chemistry at Uppsala University, and the options for continuing his academic career in the city were deemed uncertain.

Svedberg’s initiative resulted in the Jacobssons donating SEK 500,000 to Uppsala University in 1937 for a professorial chair in biochemistry, which was to be devoted to “the basic laws of chemistry and physics governing life’s processes”. The annual interest on this

amount was to pay the professor’s salary, and it was the donors’ wish that Tiselius should be the inaugural holder of the chair.

The Swedish Government granted the University permission to accept the donation and appointed Tiselius as holder of the chair in 1938. It was Sweden’s first chair in biochemistry, and in 1946 the University established a department devoted to the subject area. Tiselius was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948 for his research on proteins in blood serum, which both Herbert and Karin Jacobsson got to see before they died in 1949 and 1952, respectively.

The financing of this donation chair in biochemistry has since been taken over by the state, but the chair itself remains, and the Herbert and Karin Jacobsson Foundation was formed from the donation funds. Its assets today amount to roughly SEK 45 million and, at the University’s suggestion, in 1993 the Government decided that the return should be used to support the research being led by the holder of the chair at Uppsala University.

Professor Arne Tiselius and his colleagues in the laboratory.

Gustaf Werner in a portrait by Gustaf Carlström, Uppsala University’s art collections.

Gustaf Werner

GUSTAF WERNER was born in 1859, the son of a farmer, in Bollebygd in Västergötland. After completing his schooling in Gothenburg, he studied business in Germany and France. On returning to Sweden, he engaged in business activities in the textile field, founded spinning mills and was the majority shareholder of several textile companies. Through these activities, he was able to amass a fortune, and became well known as a donor.

In Uppsala, professor of medicine John Naeslund wanted a cyclotron (a type of particle accelerator) for the production of radionuclides, and with the same equipment, professor of physical chemistry The Svedberg would be able to generate particle beams of various kinds. Naeslund had relatives who knew Werner and who set up a meeting with him in November 1945. Naeslund and Svedberg visited Werner at the Werner Group’s offices in Gothenburg.

The Uppsala professors pointed out that a cyclotron could be used to study the action of high-energy protons on macromolecules for textile materials. This was interesting to Gustaf Werner, who saw an opportunity to use Swedish raw materials to develop products similar to the American product nylon. The decision was therefore quickly made to acquire a cyclotron by means of a donation from Werner to Uppsala University, although the cost – about SEK 1.2 million – would be borne by his textiles companies. It was also made clear that when the cyclotron was no longer needed for studies of synthetic fibres, it was to accrue to the University for other uses.

During the project, a completely new, hitherto untested type of cyclotron that generated higher energies – a synchrocyclotron – was chosen. This increased the cost above the previous estimate, and the Werner Group made an additional donation of around SEK 1 million to accommodate this. The entire facility was placed in an underground building at the Department of Physical Chemistry in Uppsala. It was formally opened in 1949 and completed in the early 1950s for the purpose of textile technology studies, though this research did not develop into anything of any size.

On the other hand, the synchrocyclotron came to be a powerful tool for medical and scientific research, which had been Naeslund’s and Svedberg’s primary purpose. The facility was named the Gustaf Werner Institute for Nuclear Chemistry, abbreviated as GWI, and a portrait of the donor, who died in 1948, adorned one of the walls.

In 1952, the synchrocyclotron was formally handed over to the University. At the time, it was Western Europe’s most powerful proton accelerator, and for many years it was utilised intensively for on-site experiments and for the production of radioactive preparations for external users. One of the proton beams generated by the accelerator also came to be used as a surgical tool in brain surgery. A major reconstruction of the synchrocyclotron was completed in 1986, and it subsequently became a basic unit in the national The Svedberg Laboratory (TSL), whose operations continued until 2016.

Professor The Svedberg on the rostrum during the opening of the Gustaf Werner Institute in 1949. Photo: Uppsala-Bild/Uppland Museum.

Portrait of Gösta Huselius by Eva Bagge, Uppsala University’s art collections.

Gösta Huselius

BORN IN 1861 in Stockholm, Gösta Huselius was enrolled at Uppsala University in 1880 and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1888. After court service and working in the Ministry for Civil Service Affairs, he worked as a partner in the law firm Lagerlöf and Huselius in Stockholm from 1896. He had extensive international contacts in the area of business law, especially with the English-speaking countries.

Huselius was a member of the Swedish Bar Association’s board for over twenty years, and with some of his colleagues, he founded Svensk Juristtidning in 1916, a journal for practising lawyers that is still published.

From letters left after he died, it appears that Huselius had long wanted to make a donation to Uppsala University to support legal research and authorship. With better salary benefits, professorial chairs at the University would become more attractive to prominent lawyers, and the holders of such positions would prefer to remain at the University and not seek better-paid positions in the judiciary.

Huselius therefore stipulated in his 1941 will that, after the death of his wife Annie, the majority of his estate should accrue to the University, and SEK 25,000 of the annual return, or the entire return if lower, was to boost the salaries of the three professors in private, procedural and criminal law. Any return over this amount should accrue to the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities for work on the interior of Uppsala Cathedral.

Huselius died in 1943 and the University received his estate of about SEK 1 million for management, subject to Annie receiving the return on the estate’s assets for as long as she lived. It soon turned out to be much higher than anticipated, and after Annie’s death, most of it would then accrue to the secondary purpose stipulated by her husband concerning Uppsala Cathedral. At her request, the University and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities therefore agreed that, after her death, 60 per cent of the return would always

accrue to the University and 40 per cent to the Academy. This agreement was approved by the King in Council.

After Annie Huselius died in 1958, salary supplements began being distributed according to the provisions in her husband’s will, but in 1973 the Government decided that such supplements were incompatible with the Swedish Civil Servants Act. Following a decision by the Chancellor of the Swedish Universities, the University has since used its share of the return for the professors’ research activities.

The donation is now a foundation with assets of approximately SEK 300 million. There are now many more than three professors in the fields specified by Huselius, but the return is still sufficient to make substantial contributions to all of them for their research work. Huselius also had an important art collection, including ‘The Peasant Wedding’ by the circle of Pieter Brueghel the Younger from the early 17th century, and his will stipulated that the collection should also accrue to Uppsala University.

Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s ‘Peasant Wedding’, Uppsala University’s art collections.

Donor Gustaf Leander.

Gustaf Leander

GUSTAF LEANDER was born in 1883, the son of a farmer in the parish of Riala in Eastern Uppland. As the only son, he later took over the family estate. He managed the estate but was also interested in study and travelled to Uppsala and took exams in several subjects for the school-leaving exam. He held positions of trust in the district and was appointed to several offices, including lay judge on the district court of Southern Roslag for many years. He was also a member of Riala Municipal Council and one of the initiators of the Riala local cultural society, acting as a board member for a while.

Leander was active in the Church of Sweden as vicechair of the parish meeting and churchwarden for almost thirty years. He was also chair of the parsonage board, where his main focus was management of the parish’s forests. His devotion to the Church found expression in the will he wrote in 1954, providing that after his death his entire estate was to accrue to Uppsala University, with the return on the assets being used for “the maintenance of a professorship of mission”. A scholarship could also be awarded to a “well-deserving student of mission” if the funds were sufficient for this.

In his will, Leander stipulated that the properties and the forest he owned could not be sold, that most of his personal property was to be retained on the estate and that his wife, if she survived him, should have parts of the return at her disposal. Leander died in 1961 and his wife Berta in 1971. It had then become clear that the donated property was not yielding as good a return as Leander had assumed it would, and in 1972 the University received permission from the Swedish Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency to sell the estate, without impediment from the provisions of Leander’s will. The proceeds of the sale were used to create a fund of approximately SEK 2.5 million.

The Faculty of Theology at the University had had a professorial chair in church history including mission history since 1948, subsequently renamed mission studies. The purpose of Leander’s donation was thus fulfilled by

government funding, and after a decision by the Swedish Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency in 1980, the Faculty was granted the right to use the fund’s return for other teaching positions in mission studies and for scholarships in that subject area. The fund was declared a foundation in 1995.

The chair in mission studies became vacant in 1996 but was not filled because the Faculty of Theology’s government funding was deemed insufficient for the purpose. At the University’s request, the Swedish Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency decided in 2001 to make another change so that the return from the Leander Foundation could be used to fund a professorship in mission studies (missionsvetenskap), which was just as Leander had intended. In 2004, the University advertised for the Gustaf Leander Professorial Chair in World Christianity and Interreligious Studies (Gustaf Leanders professur i missionsvetenskap), and two years later Kajsa Ahlstrand was appointed to it. The chair is funded entirely by the Gustaf Leander Foundation, the assets of which now amount to around SEK 135 million.

Kajsa Ahlstrand, who became the holder of the endowed professorial chair in World Christianity and Interreligious Studies in 2006. Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt.

Ulf Lindahl (privately owned photograph).

Ulf Lindahl

ULF LINDAHL was born in Stockholm in 1940. His father, Per Eric Lindahl, was a docent in zoology at Stockholm University College, and when he became a professor in Uppsala, the family moved there. Ulf Lindahl enrolled at Uppsala University in 1958 and graduated with a PhD in 1966. In 1973, he became professor of medical biochemistry at the then Swedish School of Veterinary Medicine (Veterinärhögskolan) in Stockholm. This moved to Uppsala a few years later, and Lindahl’s activities were then housed in the newly built Uppsala Biomedical Centre (BMC).

In 1977, the Swedish School of Veterinary Medicine became part of the new Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), and Lindahl became a professor at SLU. In 1991, he was appointed professor of medical biochemistry at Uppsala University, the same subject area as his position at SLU.

Lindahl’s research has mainly concerned proteoglycans, which are proteins with covalently attached carbohydrates in the form of polysaccharides. The latter include heparin, an anticoagulant, and Lindahl has studied the molecular mechanisms behind its action. His basic studies showed, among other things, that only part of heparin is anticoagulant. The work contributed to the development of the drug Fragmin, which is used to treat acute risk of blood clots and as a preventive treatment. With his colleagues, he was granted a patent for some of their discoveries in this area in 1979.

Fragmin became a major commercial success when it was launched worldwide in the 1990s. This resulted in significant royalty revenues, and Lindahl invested the majority of his share in the company Polysackaridforskning i Uppsala AB, which he founded in 1991. The company’s purpose is to research, develop and exploit glycosaminoglycans, to which group heparin belongs, and it has contributed research resources to Lindahl’s research group and to related groups totalling approximately SEK 75 million.

With funds from the company and to promote

research within his area of interest, Lindahl formed the Foundation for Research into Proteoglycans at Uppsala University in 2010. It aimed to promote the study of proteoglycans through grants for such research at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology (IMBIM) at BMC. Decisions on grants were made by a committee of local researchers.

The donations to the foundation from Lindahl’s company started at just over SEK 9 million, and in 2012 another SEK 2 million was donated. According to the deed of foundation, not only the annual return but also the foundation’s capital itself could be used for research grants. From 2011, the foundation was therefore able to finance the majority of the payroll expenses for a senior lecturer in proteoglycan research, which later became a professorial chair, and significant grants were also awarded to other researchers at the department. By 2022, the donated funds had thus been exhausted, and the foundation was wound up in accordance with the donor’s instructions.

A box of Fragmin.

Donor Anders Wall. Photo: Karin Röse.

Anders Wall

ANDERS WALL was born in 1931 to a family of tenant farmers in Giresta, Uppland. After his father’s death, his mother moved to Uppsala with their children. In 1952 he took his school-leaving exam from Uppsala Cathedral School (Katedralskolan) and then studied at the Stockholm School of Economics. He soon met businessman Kjell Beijer and worked in his company from 1956. After some foreign postings, he became managing director of the two companies G&L Beijer AB and Kol och Koks AB in 1964. Under Wall’s leadership, the former developed into a leading construction materials company, while the latter, after part of it was sold, was converted into the investment company Beijerinvest AB.

Beijerinvest AB merged with AB Volvo in 1981 and Wall became chair of the board of AB Volvo. However, he left that position after a few years and focused on building up or acquiring new investment companies. One of them is the Uppsala-based industrial group Beijer Alma, where he was chair of the board from 1992 to 2016.

Beijer and his wife established the Beijer Foundation in 1974, with the purpose of promoting research, education and culture. Wall was appointed a member of the foundation’s board, and succeeded Kjell Beijer as chair in 1988. He has been keen to support Uppsala University in various ways and, with a donation from the foundation, the Beijer Laboratory for Genetic Research was founded in 1990 with Professor Ulf Pettersson as director. The laboratory’s operations were subsequently expanded and renamed the Beijer Laboratory for Gene and Neuro Research. In total, it has received donations of approximately SEK 100 million from the Beijer Foundation.

When it became mandatory for non-EU students to pay fees to study in Sweden in 2011, the Beijer Foundation and Uppsala University launched a scholarship programme for students from China, and over a hundred young Chinese have studied in Uppsala with such scholarships. Since its extension in 2020, the programme has mainly covered scholarship holders from other non-EU countries, mostly

in Africa. The Beijer Foundation has donated a total of approximately SEK 20 million to this programme and Uppsala University has contributed an equal amount.

The Beijer Foundation, of which Wall is still the board chair, subsequently donated funds for the establishment of two additional Beijer laboratories at Uppsala University, namely the Beijer Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Research in 2014, and the Beijer Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 2023. The latter was based on a professorial chair in artificial intelligence, which was established in 2020 with the support of the Beijer Foundation.

In addition to the large grants to the Beijer laboratories and for research equipment in them, under Wall’s leadership the Beijer Foundation has financed a number of other development projects at Uppsala University, in particular at the University’s Carolina Rediviva library, and in gratitude for his significant contributions to the University, Anders Wall was made an honorary fellow in 1991. On 1 August 2024, he was awarded the title of professor by the Swedish Government.

Director of the Beijer Laboratory for Gene and Neuro Research, Professor Lena Claesson-Welsh (right), and Senior Lecturer Kaska Koltowska (left) with a multiphoton microscope purchased with funds from the Beijer Foundation. The image is displayed on the screen to the left of the microscope. Photo: Dirk Pacholsky.

Donor Lisbet Rausing.

Lisbet Rausing

LISBET RAUSING was born in Lund in 1960, the daughter of Hans and Märit Rausing. Hans Rausing was the son of Ruben Rausing, who founded the successful company Tetra Pak in Lund, and he was half-owner, CEO and later chair of the board of directors of the company before selling his share to his brother, Gad Rausing.

Lisbet Rausing pursued academic studies in the US and defended her PhD in the history of science at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1993. In her thesis Linnaeus: Nature and Nation (1999) she studied Carl Linnaeus’s thinking about how the natural sciences could be used to improve Sweden’s economy, with the goal of self-sufficiency. She later published a series of studies on the history of ideas and culture in the 18th century, which gave the debate in Sweden a European perspective.

In addition to her scholarly work, Lisbet Rausing has been a philanthropist, making large donations to charity, research, the preservation of cultural heritage, and the conservation of natural resources. For example, she has donated funds for the establishment of professorial chairs in the history of science in the US and the UK. She has also supported the Wikimedia Foundation, which works through Wikipedia and in other ways to make knowledge freely available to all and for open access to research results.

In 2000, Lisbet Rausing met Uppsala professor Tore Frängsmyr, who had also written about Carl Linnaeus, and they subsequently remained in contact as subject area colleagues. Frängsmyr had been the holder of a personal chair in the history of science since 1982, the funding for which was transferred from the former Humanities and Social Sciences Research Council to Uppsala University in 1994. There was a risk that this professorship would be terminated when Frängsmyr retired, but in 2001 Lisbet Rausing made a donation of over SEK 30 million to Uppsala University to make the chair permanent. The donation was used to establish

a foundation, whose assets now amount to approximately SEK 60 million.

In honour of her father, Lisbet Rausing wanted the chair to be called the Hans Rausing Chair in History of Science and Frängsmyr was appointed to the chair with this title in 2002. It is placed within the Department of History of Science and Ideas, and the University contributes in various ways to its expenses. Since 2002, a public Hans Rausing Lecture has been held annually at the University by an invited internationally prominent historian of science.

Uppsala University honoured Lisbet Rausing by awarding her the Linnaeus Gold Medal in connection with the celebration of the 300th anniversary of Linnaeus’s birth in 2007. In the same year, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University’s Faculty of Arts. The motivation for the decision cited her scientific achievements, and also her generous philanthropy, as expressed in particular by significant donations for the promotion of research in the history of science. In 2024, her thesis was published in Swedish translation under the title Linné: Natur och nation.

Tore Frängsmyr, who was the first holder of the Hans Rausing Chair in History of Science from 2002 to 2007. The photograph was taken by Cecilia Dykert in 1999 and belongs to Uppsala University Library.

Donor Greta Renborg.

Greta Renborg

GRETA RENBORG was born in Stockholm in 1921. Her father did not allow her to attend secondary school, and after attending a girls’ school she instead audited courses at Jälla lantmannaskola (agricultural school) near Uppsala. In 1944 she became a bookkeeper at Ultuna Farm, south of Uppsala. Two years later, she was employed as a clerk at the City Library in Uppsala. She was also involved in building up the library at Uppsala University Hospital.

When her husband, agronomist Ulf Renborg, obtained a position in Lund in 1950, the couple settled in Malmö. Greta Renborg found employment at Malmö City Library, but continued her education in parallel with her work. She completed her school-leaving exam as a privately coached candidate in Lund, and attended the National Board of Education’s Library College in 1952–53. As a library intern in the US the following year, she became aware of the great value of library outreach activities as she travelled with library buses out on the prairies of Iowa.

Back in Sweden, she was employed by Stockholm City Library to stimulate interest in reading. She also documented and analysed these activities in publications. From 1965, the Renborgs lived in Uppsala, and Greta Renborg became a prolific columnist in the newspaper Upsala Nya Tidning. She also wrote an honours degree project about public libraries and worked part-time as a senior lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science in Borås, where she initiated projects in library and information science.

In her work to promote libraries, Greta Renborg emphasised the important role of personal archives for cultural heritage and historiography. She arranged exhibitions about books and libraries, and as a gift for her 65th birthday, in 1986 the Swedish Libraries Association established an annual Greta Renborg Prize, to be awarded to library employees or others who have distinguished themselves in promoting libraries.

Greta Renborg died in 2005 and her husband in 2013. Under their joint will, their estate was to be shared by Uppsala University Library and the Royal Swedish

Academy of Agriculture and Forestry in Stockholm. SEK 1 million of the SEK 12.5 million that accrued to Uppsala University Library was earmarked to finance the final process of sorting and cataloguing Greta Renborg’s own extensive personal archive, which was also donated to the Library.

The University Library’s funds were placed in a foundation called the Greta Renborg Foundation, the return from which is mainly used for work with personal archives in the library’s Special Collections, which hold almost a thousand personal and family archives. In 2014 a position was established as the Greta Renborg archivist with the task of organising her archive and working on other archival matters. The foundation’s assets amount to approximately SEK 22 million.

Other parts of the return are used for teaching and information for librarians about the preservation and utilisation of personal archives. This includes conferences on this topic, which have been held at various locations across the country. The donation has also made it possible to make personal archives accessible throughout the country.

University Library archivists Ina-Maria Jansson and Kristina Lauridsen studying one of the library’s personal archives. Photo: Magnus Hjalmarsson.

Donor Niklas Zennström. Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt.

Niklas Zennström

NIKLAS ZENNSTRÖM was born in 1966 in Järfälla, a suburb of Stockholm, but grew up in Uppsala. He studied at Uppsala University, where he graduated with a double degree (Master of Science in Engineering and Master of Science in Business and Economics). After working at various IT companies, he and Janus Friis from Denmark founded the file-sharing program Kazaa and the telecommunications company Skype. The latter became the global leader in internet-based voice communications and was sold in 2005 for over USD 2 billion to an American company, but Zennström remained CEO of the company for a few years.

Zennström was subsequently involved in the creation of other successful internet-based companies, and in 2006 he founded the venture capital company Atomico, which invests in start-ups and fast-growing companies in the IT field. It also offers various forms of support for the development of these companies, and Zennström is a board member of several of them.

As a philanthropist with strong social engagement, Zennström and his wife Catherine founded Zennström Philanthropies, which has been supporting activities in environmental and climate research, entrepreneurship and human rights since 2007. His active interest in the environmental area was reinforced by contact with US Vice-President Al Gore, and after a sailing trip on the Baltic Sea during a summer of extensive algal blooms, he began actively working to improve the environment in the Baltic. In 2013, he initiated the ‘Race for the Baltic’ programme and spoke about the Baltic Sea on the radio programme ‘Summer on P1’ in the same year.

In 2008, Zennström Philanthropies made a donation of SEK 15 million to Uppsala University. Zennström wanted to support the University that had meant so much to him and, after having consulted its management, he decided that the purpose of the donation should be to recruit world-leading visiting professors specialising in climate leadership, climate goals and climate justice over a ten-year period. This series of visiting professors began

in 2015, and with perspectives from other universities around the world, they contribute to an interdisciplinary environment at the Department of Earth Sciences. An additional purpose is to engage students in creating largescale solutions and spreading new ideas.

Another simultaneous donation by Zennström was SEK 10 million for research in textile studies. In honour of his mother, who had been a textiles lecturer at the University, he decided that the donation should be used to establish the Else-Marie Zennström Memorial Foundation for Textile Studies Research at Uppsala University. The foundation is of great importance for this small subject area. In 2022, its assets were just over SEK 16 million. Two thirds of its return goes to scholarships for doctoral students, and one third to researchers with a doctorate in the subject area.

In 2015, Uppsala University named Zennström Alumnus of the Year at the University for his engagement for the climate and his entrepreneurship, and for his role as a source of inspiration and a role model for the University’s students.

Group photo with the first three visiting professors in climate leadership. From left: Kevin Anderson, Keri Facer and Doreen Stabinsky. Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt.

Myrna Smith

MYRNA SMITH was born in Nebraska, USA, in 1937 and grew up on the farm to which her great-grandfather had come as an emigrant from Skåne in Sweden. She obtained a Master’s degree from the University of Minnesota and then worked at that university until her retirement in 2010. She worked within the university management on matters related to research programmes, scholarships, donations and special lecture programmes.

She first visited Sweden with her parents in 1973, and her interest in runes and runic inscriptions was first piqued in Sigtuna with all its runestones. This interest was later reinforced in 2013, when she heard a presentation at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis by runic researcher Henrik Williams from Uppsala University, who has made many trips to the US to lecture on runes. In connection with this, she also came into contact with the American Association for Runic Studies (AARS), and she is now a member of the board of that association. She sees runes as a research field that, albeit small, provides knowledge about the history and culture of Scandinavia, in particular for Swedish-Americans.

Myrna Smith started supporting runic research at Uppsala University in 2016, and her long-term aim was to establish a professorial chair in runology at the University. Since then, every year she has donated between USD 5,000 and 15,000, mediated by the American Friends of Uppsala University (AFUU), an organisation established by the Uppsala University Foundations Management of Estates and Funds with the University to facilitate American citizens’ donations. Her many donations have been used to fund the printing of scholarly publications and for symposia with invited researchers.

As early as 2016, Myrna Smith also decided to support runic research at the University in her will via AFUU. She subsequently developed these plans and in 2020 pledged in an agreement with AFUU that USD 1.5 million of her estate would accrue to AFUU to support runic research at Uppsala University so that it could continue to develop and flourish for the foreseeable future. In practice, this

donation will contribute to the funding of a professorial chair in runology or to supporting other forms of future runic research at the University.

At the same time, Uppsala University decided to augment Myrna Smith’s donation with its own funds. Henrik Williams’s chair in Nordic languages would thus be converted to a chair in runology, a new position in runic research would be established and over a four-year period a total of SEK 5 million would be set aside to strengthen runic research at the University. Thus, since 1 April 2021, Henrik Williams has been the world’s only professor of runology, and a position as associate senior lecturer specialising in runology has also been filled, which is currently financed with the above provision of SEK 5 million.

Professor Henrik Williams with a miniature of the Rök runestone.

Photo: Stewen Quigley.

Lennart and Kerstin Holm. Photo: Roland Moberg.

Kerstin and Lennart Holm

KERSTIN WAS BORN in Rättvik in 1924 and Lennart in Umeå in 1921. Kerstin, née Halle, trained as a physiotherapist and teacher and worked at the early childhood teacher training college (småskoleseminariet) in Falun and the training college for primary school teachers (folkskoleseminariet) in Strängnäs. Lennart studied biology at Uppsala University, took a doctoral degree and gained the rank of docent in 1957 and was appointed a senior lecturer in 1963. They met during an excursion on Gotland and married in 1966. After a time, they moved to Jerusalem Farm in Dalby parish, southwest of Uppsala.

Lennart and Kerstin Holm later both worked as teachers and researchers in mycology at the Department of Systematic Botany at Uppsala University, where Kerstin graduated with a licentiate degree in 1973. Through their research into fungi, they continued a centuries-old Uppsala tradition pioneered by Elias Fries. They often worked together, co-authoring mycology works and writing many joint scientific publications. The genus Holmiella is named after them in recognition of their research on microfungi.

They continued their research after retirement, and Lennart Holm was awarded the title of professor in 1987. His last publication came in 2012, the year in which he died at the age of 91. Kerstin Holm died in 2020. In 2007, they had written a joint will for their estate, under which provisions were to be made for nephews and nieces and to a fund in memory of Lennart Holm’s uncle. Furthermore, with the exception of certain furniture, books and jewellery left to various relatives, everything else was to be used to establish a foundation named the Kerstin and Lennart Holm Foundation for Mycology Research.

The foundation was to be managed by Uppsala University, which was also to establish the rules governing it, although the Holms had already written down some guidelines in 1991 that they wanted to be observed. In those guidelines, they specified that the purpose of the foundation was to help ensure that research

in systematic mycology would continue to be conducted at the University, which had a rich tradition in the area and valuable collections in the Fytoteket botanical museum.

According to those guidelines, one fifth of the return was to be added to the capital and the rest awarded as a scholarship to a deserving licentiate or doctoral student conducting research in the field of mycology. Scholarship holders were to be appointed by the professor of systematic botany after consultation with the director of Fytoteket, but the University’s organisation in the field has changed since 1991, and there is no longer a professor of systematic botany. In 2022, the University therefore decided that decisions on the utilisation of the foundation’s funds should be made by the Faculty Board of Science and Technology, with the option to delegate this decisionmaking authority.

The foundation currently has assets amounting to around SEK 11 million and, since it is relatively new, no grants have yet been awarded.

The image shows giant puffballs beside Lennart Holm’s boots.

Photo: Roland Moberg.

Index of persons

Ahlstrand, Kajsa (b. 1959), mission historian, professor, p. 43

Alnavik, Carl-Erik (b. 1951), photographer, p. 23,35

Anderson, Kevin (b. 1962), British climate scientist, visiting professor, p. 53

Andersson, Algot (1889–1948), farmer, p. 47

Andersson, Dan I. (b. 1957), bacteriologist, professor, p. 17

Andersson, Elin, née Frycklund (1900–86), married woman, p. 47

Andersson, Johan (1823–97), master builder, p. 23

Andersson, Therese, née Svanberg (1843–1922), married woman, p. 22, 23

Annerstedt, Claes (1839–1927), university historian, librarian, p. 34, 35

Annerstedt, Hilda, née Bergman (1860–1933), married woman, p. 34, 35

Annerstedt, Rudolf (1801–76), educationalist, principal/headmaster, p. 35

Appellöf, Adolf (1857–1921), zoologist, professor, p. 21

Aronsson, Lene (b. 1970), artist, portrait painter, p. 10

Bagge, Eva (1871–1964), artist, portrait painter, p. 40 Beijer, Kjell (1899–1987), entrepreneur, p.47

Beijer, Märta, née Sahlqvist (1901–2002), married woman, p. 47

Björck, Hildegard (1847–1920), physician, paramedic, p. 15

Björkén, John (1833–93), physician, lecturer, p. 16, 17

Broström, Axel (1838–1905), shipowner, p. 37

Broström, Dan (1870–1925), shipowner, member of the Riksdag, p. 37

Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564–1638), Flemish artist, p. 41

Bünsow, Friedrich Christian Ernestus (1824–97), industrialist, donor, p. 21

Bünsow, Robert (1861–1939), consul-general, donor, 20, 21

Carlström, Gustaf (1896–1964), artist, author, p. 38

Claesson-Welsh, Lena, née Claesson (b. 1956), biochemist, professor, p. 47

Clason, Isaac Gustaf (1808–80), övermasmästare (overseer of pig iron and wrought iron production), director, p. 13

Dykert, Cecilia (b. 1961), photographer, p. 49

Ehrenheim, Pehr von (1823–1918), minister of state, university chancellor, p. 27

Ekman, Vilhelm (1823–1900), banker, donor, p. 18, 19

Erdmann, Axel (1843–1926), Anglicist, professor, p. 19

Eschelsson, Elsa (1861–1911), lawyer, docent, p. 26, 27

Facer, Keri (b. 1972), British social futures researcher, visiting professor, p. 53

Florman, Gösta (1831–1900), photographer, p. 15, 24

Fries, Elias (1794–1878), botanist, professor, p. 57

Friis, Janus (b. 1976), Danish entrepreneur, p. 53

Frängsmyr, Tore (1938–2017), science historian, professor, p. 49

Geijer, Erik Gustaf (1783–1847), poet, historian, professor, p. 35

Gore, Al (b. 1948), American politician, p. 53

Granqvist, Gustaf (1866–1922), physicist, professor, p. 23

Gustaf II Adolf (1594–1632), King, p. 6, 7

Hagfeldt, Anders (b. 1964), Vice-Chancellor, p. 17

Hagströmer, Ida, née Eschelsson (1854–1922), married woman, p. 27

Hagströmer, Johan (1845–1910), lawyer, professor, p. 27

Hammarskjöld, Dag (1905–61), minister of state, United Nations Secretary-General, p. 35

Hammarskjöld, Hjalmar (1862–1953), minister of state, county governor, p. 31

Hammarsten, Olof (1841–1932), physiologist, professor, p. 31

Hanselli, Pehr (1815-79), publisher, publicist, photographer, p. 6

Hjalmarsson, Magnus (b. 1966), photographer, p. 51

Holm, Kerstin, née Halle (1924–2020), mycologist, p. 56, 57

Holm, Lennart (1921–2012), mycologist, professor, p. 56, 57

Huselius, Annie, née Flodman (1881–1958), married woman, p. 41

Huselius, Gösta (1861–1943), solicitor, donor, p. 40, 41

Jacobsson, Herbert (1878–1949), officer, donor, p. 36, 37

Jacobsson, Karin, née Broström (1878–1952), donor, p. 36, 37

Jaeger, Johannes (1832–1908), German photographer, p. 14, 32

Jansson, Ina-Maria (b. 1986), PhD, archivist, p. 51

Kolthoff, Gustaf (1845–1913), zoologist, curator, p. 21

Koltowska, Kaska (b. 1983), senior lecturer, p. 47

Kræmer, Lotten von (1828–1912), author, donor, p. 14, 15

Kræmer, Maria Charlotta von (1802–69), married woman, p. 15

Kræmer, Robert von (1791–1880), county governor, p. 15

Lauridsen, Kristina (b. 1968), archivist, p. 51

Leander, Gustaf (1883–1961), freehold farmer, p. 42, 43

Leander, Berta (1891–1971), married woman, p. 43

Lindahl, Per Eric (1906–91), zoophysiologist, professor, p. 45

Lindahl, Ulf (b. 1940), medicinal chemist, professor, p. 44, 45

Lindman, Arvid (1862–1936), industrialist, Prime Minister, p. 31

Linnaeus, Carl (1707–78), botanist, professor, p. 49

Malmén, Carl (1862–1928), division head, National Board of Trade, donor, p. 32, 33

Marin, Carl Ferdinand (1828–1916), Lieutenant, p. 25

Marin, Fredrika Margareta (1806–79), married woman, p. 25

Marin, Victor Napoleon (1842–1911), Major, donor, p. 24, 25

MasOlle, Helmer (1884–1969), artist, p. 36

Moberg, Roland (b. 1939), botanist, docent, p. 56, 57

Naeslund, John (1894–1972), professor, chief physician, p. 39

Napoleon I (1769–1821), French emperor, p. 11

Naylor, David (b. 1983), photographer, communications officer, p. 13

Norberg, Matthias (1747–1826), Hellenist, professor, p. 11

Osti, Henry (1826–1914), photographer, p. 16

Ottosson, Mats Ola (b. 1941), university director, author, p. 7, 19, 25

Pacholsky, Dirk (b. 1972), project manager, photographer, p. 47

Pettersson, Ulf (b. 1942), geneticist, professor, p. 47

Quigley, Stewen (1952–2023), photographer, publicist, p. 55

Rausing, Gad (1922–2000), industrialist, archaeologist, p. 49

Rausing, Hans (1926–2019), industrialist, p. 49

Rausing, Lisbet (b. 1960), Linnaeus researcher, donor, p. 48, 49

Rausing, Märit, née Norrby (b. 1930), married woman, p. 49 Rausing, Ruben (1895–1983), industrialist, p. 49

Regnell, Anders Fredrik (1807–84), physician, donor, p. 12, 13

Renborg, Greta, née Liljestrand (1921–2005), librarian, p. 50, 51

Renborg, Ulf (1920–2013), agronomist, professor, p. 51

Ringnell, Anders (1784–1830), restaurateur, p. 13

Röse, Karin (b. 1972), photographer, p. 49

Siegbahn, Kai (1918–2007), physicist, professor, p. 23

Siegbahn, Manne (1886–1978), physicist, professor, p. 23

Smith, Myrna (b. 1937), American university administrator, donor, p. 54, 55

Staaff, Karl (1860–1915), politician, Prime Minister, p. 31

Stabinsky, Doreen (b. 1961), American climate scientist, visiting professor, p. 53

Stecksén, Jonas (1773–1835), sea captain, philologist, professor, p. 10, 11

Stenberg, Ture (1863–1917), architect, p. 23

Stenberg, Sten Johan (1818–88), docent, division head, National Board of Trade, p. 15

Stenhammar, Ernst (1859–1927), architect, p. 23

Svanberg, Conrad Theodor (1816–89), tradesman, politician, p. 23

Svedberg, The (1884–1971), chemist, professor, p. 37, 39

Swartz, Carl (1858–1926), politician, university chancellor, p. 30, 31

Swartz, Dagmar, née Lundström (1867–1932), married woman, p. 31

Swartz, Erik (1817–81), tobacco producer, member of the Riksdag, p. 31

Söderberg, Anders Petter (1769–1832), wholesale merchant, p. 15

Tiselius, Arne (1902–71), chemist, professor, p. 37

Ulander, Wilhelm (1820–1911), banker, p. 19

Valery, Emile (1859–1934), French photographer, p. 28

Wahlund, Gustaf (1804–77), ironmaster, p. 29

Wahlund, Carl (1846–1913), Romanist, professor, p. 19, 28, 29

Wahlund, Sofia Wilhelmina, née Wester (1807–77), married woman, p. 29

Wall, Anders (b. 1931), business executive, donor, p. 46, 47

Wallenberg, Alice, née Nickelsen (1858–1956), donor, p. 33

Wallenberg, Knut (1853–1938), banker, politician, donor, p. 33

Wallerstedt, Mikael (b. 1966), photographer, p. 17, 43, 52, 53

Werner, Gustaf (1859–1948), industrialist, donor, p. 38, 39

Westberg, Tommy (b. 1947), photographer, p. 11

Westin, Lourenço (1787–1846), Swedish-Norwegian consul-general in Brazil, p. 13

Weyhenmeyer, Gesa (b. 1969), biologist, professor, p. 33

Widing, Rudolf (1852–1935), lithographer, p. 12

Williams, Henrik (b. 1958), runologist, professor, p. 55

Wremp, Anna Maria (b. 1974), communications officer, p. 21

Zennström, Catherine, née Loing (b. 1970), philanthropist, p. 53

Zennström, Else-Marie, née Andersson (1932–2007), sewing and needlework teacher, p. 53

Zennström, Niklas (b. 1966), businessman, entrepreneur, p. 52, 53

Ångström, Anders Jonas (1814–74), physicist, professor, p. 23

Ångström, Augusta, née Bedoire (1820–1906), married woman, p. 23

Ångström, Hélène, née Pilo (1849–1943), married woman, p. 23

Ångström, Knut (1857–1910), physicist, professor, p. 23

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