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20: 89:. Hwasser moved, too, but he only remained in Helsinki until 1830, when he applied for a professorship in Uppsala. He returned to Uppsala in order to fight against plans to locate all medical education in Sweden at the Karolinska Institute. He would continue his vocal criticism of Karolinska for 30 years, something that made him somewhat controversial. His opposition to the more scientific 104:
Hwasser was a well-liked teacher of medicine among students and other teachers, and the number of medical students increased during his years as professor. His theories about the philosophical underpinnings of medicine were however less popular. He was also outspoken about his views on public
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Hwasser was the son of the vicar in Älvkarleby parish, Lars Adolph Hwasser, and Margareta Catharina Djurman. He grew up in the vicarage, receiving his schooling at home. When he was 14 years old he took the finishing exam,
308: 121: 74:. While he was there, he gradually changed his view of medicine, beginning to believe that humans caused their own illness, while healing was a divine force. 286: 336: 351: 346: 356: 341: 298: 128:. While a member of the latter institution he wrote various texts on literary criticism, mainly focusing on public morality. 51:, in Uppsala, and went on to study medicine there. In 1813 he finished his studies and defended his dissertation to become a 361: 113: 134:
He resigned his professorship in 1855, at the age of 65, but continued teaching until his death in 1860. He is buried at
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in Stockholm. In 1817, at the age of 26, he was appointed Professor of medicine in
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morality and decency, and in his last years he expressed deep admiration for Tsar
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as the defender of Christendom against liberalism, socialism and godlessness.
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led to the move of the faculty of medicine, together with the rest of the
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has been likened to the opposition in the earlier century between
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He married Anna Charlotta Wadsberg in 1817. She died in 1852.
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Hwasser joined the Swedish troops as a military doctor in the
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Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
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Älvkarleby
Uppsala
Swedish Academy
studentexamen
Doctor of Medicine
War of the Sixth Coalition
Napoleonic Wars
Karolinska Institute
Turku
Great Fire of Turku
Royal Academy of Turku
Helsinki
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Emanuel Swedenborg
Carl Linnaeus
Nicholas I
Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
Swedish Academy
Uppsala old cemetery



"Israel Hwasser"
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