Gunnar Dahlberg

Swedish physician (1893–1956)

Gunnar Dahlberg
Gunnar Dahlberg displays a cat with 7 claws.

Gunnar Dahlberg (1893–1956) was a Swedish physician, eugenist and geneticist.

From 1922 to 1924 he was the assistant of Herman Lundborg at Statens institut för rasbiologi. In 1935, when Lundborg retired, Dahlberg succeeded him as the head of the institute. Dahlberg held the post until his death in 1956 and was succeeded by the geneticist Jan Arvid Böök.[1]

In September 1939, he was one of the signatories of the eugenics manifesto. In the 1950s, Gunnar Dahlberg gave his support to the UNESCO Statement on Race.[2]

Bibliography

  • Dahlberg, Gunnar (1942). Race, reason and rubbish: an examination of the biological credentials of the Nazi Creed. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Martin Ericsson (2021). "What happened to 'race' in race biology? The Swedish State Institute for Race Biology, 1936−1960". Scandinavian Journal of History. 46 (1): 126. doi:10.1080/03468755.2020.1778520.
  2. ^ "SENKU-seminar with Jon Røyne Kyllingstad". Museum of Cultural History, Oslo. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  3. ^ McCormick, Thomas C. (1943). "Review of Race, Reason, and Rubbish. A Primer of Race Biology". American Sociological Review. 8 (4): 492–493. doi:10.2307/2085831. ISSN 0003-1224.
  4. ^ Reuter, E. B. (1943). "Review of Race-Reason and Rubbish: A Primer of Race Biology". American Journal of Sociology. 49 (1): 93–95. ISSN 0002-9602.
Authority control databases Edit this at Wikidata
International
  • ISNI
  • VIAF
  • WorldCat
National
  • Norway
  • Germany
  • Israel
  • United States
  • Sweden
  • Australia
  • Netherlands
Academics
  • CiNii
Other
  • SNAC
  • IdRef