Carl Magnus Prince

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Carl Magnus Fürst around 1896
The family grave of the princes in Lund.

Carl Magnus Fürst (born December 14, 1854 in Karlskrona , † April 12, 1935 in Lund ) was a Swedish physician and professor at Lund University . Fürst was a driving force in Swedish racial studies and was involved in the formation of the State Institute for Racial Biology .

Live and act

Carl Magnus Fürst was enrolled at Uppsala University in 1874 , where he studied medicine. In 1882 he passed the candidate examination at Stockholm University and in 1879 the licentiate at Lund University . In 1887, Fürst completed his studies there as a doctor of medicine and was appointed associate professor of anatomy and histology in 1888.

From 1904 to 1919, Fürst was a full professor at the Anatomical Institute in Lund. One of Fürst's colleagues at the Anatomical Institute in Lund was Professor Ivar Broman , who in 1937 was a co-founder of the nationalist union between Sweden and Germany . Gaston Backmann , a student of Fürst and later professor of anatomy in Lund, was also active in the Reich Association. Among the scientific works of Fürst were: A contribution to the knowledge of the sheath of the nerve fibers (In: "Morphologische Arbeit ", Volume 6, 1896), The Popliteus muscle and its tendon (In: Fysiografiska sällskapets handlingar, 1903), On the knowledge of histogenesis and the growth of the retina (ibid., 1904).

Fürst also studied ethnography and anthropology . So he gave the work Anthropologia suecica together with Gustaf Retzius . Contributions to the Anthropology of Swedes (1902; awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ) based on the anthropological research of 44,939 21-year-old conscripts. In Skandinaviska Nordens ur-invånare , Fürst rejected Sven Nilsson's thesis that the ancestors of the Swedes were Sami .

Fürst became a member of the Royal Physiographical Society in Lund in 1890 , and in 1908 the Royal Swedish Academy of Learning, History and Antiquities and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 1911, Fürst received an honorary doctorate from the medical faculty of Kristiania University .

Fürst is buried in the monastery cemetery in Lund.

Scientific work (selection)

  • On the craniology of the Swedish Stone Age. 1912.
  • Trepanerade svenska kranier från äldre tid. In: Lunds universitets årsskrift. 1913.
  • Neolithic skull from the island of Osel. In: Baltic Studies in Archeology and History. 1914.
  • Några nyfunna trepanerade svenska fornkranier. In: Fornvännen. 1917.
  • När de döda vittna. 1920.
  • Magnus Ladulås and Karl Knutssons gravar i Riddarholmskyrkan. 1921.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Alvar Nilsson: Kris i folkhemmet. Svensk politisk historia 1900 - 2011. ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.5 MB).
  2. ↑ Sydsvenskan : Professor var nazister . Published on April 29, 2005. Last accessed on August 24, 2012.
  3. ↑ Svenskar . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 27 : Stockholm-Nynäs järnväg – Syrsor . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1918, Sp. 1033 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  4. ^ Ebba During: Osteologi. Benens vittnesbörd. Arkeo-förlaget: Gamleby 1992, ISBN 91-86742-15-9 , p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Prince, Carl Magnus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlskrona
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1935
Place of death Lund