Gustav Hesselblad

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| birth_place = Malmö, Sweden

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| years_active = 1933–1971

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| profession = Surgeon

| field = Military medicine

| work_institutions = Falköping Hospital, Löwenströmska Hospital, Red Cross Hospital, Norrköping Hospital, Visby Hospital, Sankt Erik Hospital

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Gustaf (Gustav) Hesselblad (29 May 1906 – 7 March 1989) was a Swedish physician. He served as Surgeon-in-Chief of the Swedish Army from 1960 to 1971 and head of the Swedish Army Medical Corps from 1960 to 1969.

Early life

Hesselblad was born on 29 May 1906 in Malmö Saint Petri Parish (Malmö S:t Petri församling), Skåne County, Sweden,{{cite book |title=Sveriges dödbok 1901-2009 |trans-title=Swedish death index 1901-2009 |edition=Version 5.0 |year=2010 |publisher=Sveriges släktforskarförbund |location=Solna |language=sv |isbn=9789187676598 |id={{SELIBR|11931231}}}} the son of Frans Gustaf Hesselblad, a factory manager, and his wife Elise Josefsson. He received a Licentiate of Medical Science degree from Lund University in 1933.{{cite book |url=https://runeberg.org/vemarvem/sthlm62/0585.html |editor1-last=Harnesk |editor1-first=Paul |date=1962 |title=Vem är vem? |volume=1, Stor-Stockholm |trans-title=Who's Who? |edition=2nd |location=Stockholm |publisher=Vem är vem bokförlag |language=sv |id={{SELIBR|53509}} |page=561}}

Career

Hesselblad held various doctor positions between 1933 and 1938, and served as first assistant physician in Visby in 1939 (acting in 1938). He became battalion surgeon in the Swedish Army Medical Corps in 1939 and served in the Svea Logistic Corps in 1940 and as health inspector in 1943. He was appointed army surgeon in the III Military District Staff in 1945 and became byråöverläkare in the Medical Board of the Swedish Armed Forces in 1953 and thus also became a member of the Medical Preparedness Committee of the National Swedish Board of Health (Medicinalstyrelsens sjukvårdsberedskapsnämnd) from the same year.{{cite book |url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/64601/gupea_2077_64601_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |title=Sveriges statskalender för skottåret 1960 |year=1960 |publisher=Fritzes offentliga publikationer |location=Uppsala |language=sv |page=151}}

Hesselblad served as Surgeon-in-Chief of the Swedish Army and head of the Swedish Army Medical Corps from 1960 to 1969 after which he served as Surgeon-in-Chief of the Swedish Army and head of the Medical Corps Office (Medicinalkårsexpeditionen) in the Medical Board of the Swedish Armed Forces from 1969 to 1971.{{cite book |editor-last=Andersson |editor-first=Sigrid |title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1987 |year=1986 |publisher=Norstedt |location=Stockholm |language=sv |isbn=9118630723 |id={{SELIBR|3681528}} |page=482}}<{{cite book |url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/59414/gupea_2077_59414_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |editor-last=Sköldenberg |editor-first=Bengt |title=Sveriges statskalender 1971 |year=1971 |publisher=Fritzes offentliga publikationer |location=Uppsala |language=sv |page=107}}

Death

Hesselblad died on 7 March 1989 in Oscar Parish, Stockholm.

Awards and decorations

50px {{flagicon|Sweden}} Commander of the Order of the Polar Star (6 June 1961){{cite book |url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/65027/gupea_2077_65027_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |title=Sveriges statskalender 1965 |year=1965 |publisher=Fritzes offentliga publikationer |location=Uppsala |language=sv |page=150}}
50px {{flagicon|Sweden}} Knight of the Order of the Polar Star (1953){{cite book |url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/64601/gupea_2077_64601_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |title=Sveriges statskalender för skottåret 1960 |year=1960 |publisher=Fritzes offentliga publikationer |location=Uppsala |language=sv |page=90}}
50px {{flagicon|Sweden}} Knight of the Order of Vasa (1948){{cite book |url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/handle/2077/65027/gupea_2077_65027_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |title=Sveriges statskalender 1965 |year=1965 |publisher=Fritzes offentliga publikationer |location=Uppsala |language=sv |page=304}}

Honours

Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (1957){{cite book |last=Kjellander |first=Rune |title=Kungl Krigsvetenskapsakademien: Svenska krigsmanna sällskapet (till 1805), Kungl Krigsvetenskapsakademien : biografisk matrikel med porträttgalleri 1796-1995 |year=1996 |publisher=Akad. |location=Stockholm |isbn=91-630-4181-2 |id={{SELIBR|7451162}} |page=161 |language=sv}}