Carl Magnus Fürst
Carl Magnus Fürst (24 December 1854 – 12 April 1935) was a Swedish physician and professor of anatomy at the Lund University, University of Lund. He contributed to physical anthropology and studied the skeletal characters and craniology from archaeological studies apart from an interest in the history of medicine in Sweden. Fürst was born in Karlskrona to army physician Carl Absalon and Betty Wilhelmina Hubendick. He studied at Karlskrona before going to study at Uppsala University in 1874 and then at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He obtained a medical license from Lund in 1885 and a doctorate in 1887. His doctoral thesis was on seminal corpuscles. He became a prosector in anatomy in 1885 and in 1888 he became a professor of anatomy and histology. He took an interest in the history of medicine and anthropology and in 1902 he published ''Anthropologia suecica'' along with his teacher Gustaf Retzius. It was based on the measurements made of 45000 Swedish conscripts. In ...
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