Gunnar_Broberg

Gunnar Broberg

Gunnar Broberg

Swedish academic (1942–2022)

For the Swedish Olympic sailor, see Gunnar Broberg (sailor).

Gunnar Broberg (5 September 1942 – 30 April 2022) was professor in History of Science and Ideas at Lund University, Sweden, appointed in 1990. Broberg has written about the compulsory sterilization activities in Sweden[1] and extensively about the scientist Carl Linnaeus.[2] In 2005 he was elected Chair of the Royal Humanistic Scientific Society in Lund (Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund).[3] He was the editor of the book Gyllene äpplen (Golden apples), which won the August Prize (Augustpriset) in 1992.[4]

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English bibliography

Swedish bibliography

  • Järven, filfrassen, frossaren, 1971.
  • Homo sapiens L, 1975.
  • Brunögd, lätt, hastig, gjorde allting promt, 1978.
  • Linnéminnen i Uppsala, 1982.
  • Bilden av naturen, 1983.
  • Nordström och hans skola, 1983.
  • Oönskade i folkhemmet, 1991 (with Mattias Tydén).
  • Gyllene äpplen, 1992.
  • Statlig rasforskning, 1995.
  • När svensk historia blev en världsnyhet, 1999 (with Mattias Tydén).
  • Kattens historia, 2004.
  • Tsunamin i Lissabon',' 2005.
  • Carl von Linné, 2006.
  • Nattens historia. Nordiskt mörker och ljus under tusen år, 2016
  • Mannen som ordnade naturen: En biografi över Carl von Linné, 2019

References

  1. [1]
    Broberg, G. (2005). Statlig rasforskning: en historik över rasbiologiska institutet. Lund: Lund University.
  2. [2]
    Broberg, G. (2006). Carl Linnaeus. Stockholm: Swedish Institute.
  3. [3]
    "Governing body of Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund". Archived from the original on 2010-08-27. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
  4. [4]
    Augustpriset, alla nominerade i alfabetisk ordning Archived 2010-08-11 at the Wayback Machine
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