Herman Bernhard Lundborg

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Herman Bernhard Lundborg
neurologist Edit this on Wikidata
Spouse(s)Thyra Lundborg Edit this on Wikidata
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Parent(s)
  • Herman Emanuel Lundborg Edit this on Wikidata
  • Maria Wilhelmina Löhman Edit this on Wikidata

Herman Bernhard Lundborg (April 7, 1868 – May 9, 1943) was a Swedish

race biologist
.

Biography

Lundborg was born in

racial biology.[1]

For his doctoral

progressive myoclonus epilepsies first described by Heinrich Unverricht in 1891. Besides giving an account of the disease, he traced an affected family back to the 18th century, an analysis unique for that time.[1] He concluded that the family had genetically degenerated because of "unwise marriages".[2] The study has been described as "of considerable historic interest in human genetics".[3] Over the years, the form of epilepsy became known as the Unverricht–Lundborg disease
.

He was on the editorial board of the Hereditas journal, founded 1920, with the scope on genetics.[4]

Lundborg was strongly involved with the ideology of

State Institute of Racial Biology, of which Lundborg was appointed as the head. Under his leadership, the institute began gathering copious statistics and photographs to map the racial make-up of about 100,000 Swedish people.[5][6]

The Swedish writer Maja Hagerman has written a biography on Herman Lundborg and made a documentary about his racial research in Laponia.[7][8]

He died in Östhammar.

In the media

In the novel 'The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared' by the Swedish author Jonas Jonasson, dr. Lundborg is portraited in chapter 4.

References

  1. ^
    Who Named It?
    .
  2. ^ Lundborg, H. B. (1903). "Die progressive Myoklonus-Epilepsie (Unverricht's Myoklonie)".
  3. ^ Johns Hopkins University. "Myoclonic epilepsy of Unverricht and Lundborg". NCBI.
  4. S2CID 16786101
    .
  5. OCLC 1138109494.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link
    )
  6. ^ O'Mahony, Paul (2007-01-09). "Sweden's 'dark legacy' draws crowds to museum". thelocal.se.
  7. OCLC 1140427053.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  8. ^ Hagerman, Maja (2016-02-24), Watch What Measures to Save a People? A film about Herman Lundborg, head of the Swedish State Institute for Race Biology. Online | Vimeo On Demand, retrieved 2020-11-06
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