Axel Hamberg
{{Short description|Swedish mineralogist, geographer and explorer (1863–1933)}}
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| caption = Axel Hamberg ca. 1910
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1863|01|17|df=y}}
| birth_place = Klara Församling, Stockholm, Sweden
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1933|06|28|1863|01|17|df=yes}}
| death_place = Stockholm, Sweden
| nationality = Swedish
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| fields = Geography
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Axel Hamberg (17 January 1863 – 28 June 1933) was a Swedish mineralogist, geographer and explorer.{{cite web|title=Axel Hamberg|url=http://www.axelhamberg.se/|website=Axel Hamberg|accessdate=28 January 2017|language=Swedish}}
Biography
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Hamberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
He was the son of Nils Peter Hamberg (1815-1902) and Emma Augusta Christina Härnström (1833-1914). Hamberg became a student at Uppsala University in 1881, philosophy candidate in 1888 and was awarded a Licentiate degree in 1893.
He became an associate professor of mineralogy and crystallography in the same year at Stockholm University. In 1907, he received his philosophy doctor and was appointed as an extra ordinary professor at the University of Uppsala. He served as a professor in geography at Uppsala until 1928.{{cite web|url= https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=12465|title= Axel Hamberg|publisher= Svenskt biografiskt lexikon
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In 1883, he attended the expedition of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld to Greenland and in 1898 accompanied on the expedition of Alfred Nathorst on the ship "Antarctic" to Svalbard and Kong Karls Land.{{cite web|url= https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=8231 |title= N Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld|publisher= Svenskt biografiskt lexikon |author= Esko Häkli|accessdate=April 1, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=8762
|title= Alfred G Nathorst|publisher= Svenskt biografiskt lexikon |author= Lars-König Königsson|accessdate=April 1, 2019}}
At the General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm of 1897, he received a gold medal for an exhibition of Scandinavian minerals.
He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1905. He was elected to membership by the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala in 1916 and by the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund in 1929. He held the presidency of the International Glacier Commission from 1913 until 1927.
Personal life
Hamberg was married in 1912 with Sigrid Charlotta Nordlund (1885-1959). His wife was a poet whose work appeared in such magazines as Idun and Svea. Their son, Per Gustaf Hamberg (1913-1978), was a professor of art history and art theory at the University of Gothenburg.{{cite web|url=http://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/object/1017377|title= Axel Hamberg, geolog |publisher= Etnografiska Museet
|accessdate=April 1, 2019}}
Awards and honors
The Spitsbergen glacier Hambergbreen is named after him.{{cite web |url=http://placenames.npolar.no/stadnamn/Hambergbreen |title=Hambergbreen (Svalbard) |publisher=Norwegian Polar Institute |accessdate=12 July 2017}}
The Bjørnøya mountain of Hambergfjellet is named after him.{{cite web |url=http://placenames.npolar.no/stadnamn/Hambergfjellet |title=Hambergfjellet (Svalbard) |publisher=Norwegian Polar Institute |accessdate=27 May 2014}}
The Hamberg Glacier of South Georgia and the Hamberg Glacier of NE Greenland are named after him.{{cite web|url=http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:6272|title=Antarctica Feature Detail|last=United States Geological Survey|date=January 7, 2012|work=Geographic Names Information System|accessdate=7 January 2012}}{{cite web | title = Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland | publisher = Geological Survey of Denmark | url = https://sciencedocbox.com/Geology/67887797-Exploration-history-and-place-names-of-northern-east-greenland.html | accessdate = 31 July 2019}}
The mineral hambergite was named after him in 1890.{{cite journal|last1=Brögger|first1=W.C.|title=Die mineralien der syenitpegmatitgänge der südnorwegischen augit- und nephelinsyenite, 16. Hambergit|journal=Zeitschrift für Kristallographie|date=1890|volume=16|pages=65–67}}{{cite web|title=Hambergite|url=https://www.mindat.org/min-1811.html|website=MinDat.org|accessdate=28 January 2017}}{{cite encyclopedia|title=hambergitt |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon|editor=Henriksen, Petter |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/hambergitt |language=Norwegian |accessdate=7 January 2012}}
References
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Category:Scientists from Stockholm
Category:Uppsala University alumni
Category:Academic staff of Uppsala University
Category:Swedish mineralogists
Category:Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Category:Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala
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