Herman Bernhard Lundborg

Herman Bernhard Lundborg ( born April 7, 1868 in Väse, Karlstad Municipality, † May 9, 1943 in Östhammar ) was a Swedish race theorist.

Life

Lundborg studied from 1887 at the University of Stockholm. In 1902 he received his doctorate at the University of Lund in 1903 and professor of psychology and neurology at the University of Uppsala, from 1915 for Racial Biology and Medical Genetics.

Herman Lundborg was at the center of the Swedish racial biology. His race theoretical views followed the tradition of Swedish folk ideology, which had developed in the 19th century under the influence of Arthur de Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Then the folk was to keep the breed healthy body. From these deviant individuals should be rendered harmless. Lundborg took the view that certain ethnic groups were racially unfit, such as Lobes, blacks and Jews.

Lundborg has been actively supporting the establishment of a State Institute for Racial Biology and a law for " eugenic sterilization " one. In 1921 he was appointed Professor and Head of the newly founded National Institute for Racial Biology at Uppsala University, whose aim was to research the mark of valuable breeds.