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Mar 17, 1908 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland Died on 13 Mar 1983 (aged 74)

soil scientist and member of anti-Nazi resistance in Poland

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About Hjalmar Uggla

  • Hjalmar Frederik Karl Uggla (17 March 1908 – 13 March 1983) was a Polish soil scientist, professor, and head of the Department of Soil Science at the Higher Agricultural School in Olsztyn (later renamed to the Academy of Agriculture and Technology).
  • During World War II, he was a member of a Polish resistance movement.
  • He was also awarded the Righteous Among the Nations prize. Hjalmar Uggla was born in Warsaw in an intelligentsia family from the Swedish aristocracy residing in the nineteenth century in Finland, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire.
  • The professor's ancestors were sent by the tsarist authorities as empire officials to the Congress Poland.
  • After two generations, the family Polonized and during the wars clearly defined its Polish national identity.He was the father of Andrzej Nils Uggla, a literary studies professor at Uppsala University.

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