Herman Bernhard Lundborg [SEP] place of death
Herman Bernhard Lundborg
Herman Bernhard Lundborg (April 7, 1868 in Väse in Värmland, Sweden – May 9, 1943 in Östhammar in Uppland, Sweden) was a Swedish physician. 
Biography.
He graduated in medicine at the Karolinska Institutet in 1895, and received his doctorate at the Uppsala University in 1903. He also habilitated there that year for psychiatry and neurology, and in 1915 for racial research and racial biology.
For his doctoral dissertation, Lundborg researched one of the genetic progressive myoclonus epilepsies first described by
was established in Uppsala as a governmental agency for eugenics. It was the world’s first of its kind. The pro-Nazi physician Herman Bernhard Lundborg was appointed as the first head of the institute, but after he was removed and replaced by Gunnar Dahlberg in 1936 the institute developed towards a less racist and more medicinal and statistical direction. In 1939 "", "the ball house meeting", took place in Uppsala. It was organized by the student body at the university. A majority of the assembly made an