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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 22.
Published in final edited form as: Epileptic Disord. 2016 Sep 1;18(Suppl 2):3–10. doi: 10.1684/epd.2016.0834

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Herman Lundborg (1868–1943). Herman Lundborg wrote his dissertation in 1903 at the Karolinska Institutet, in Stockholm, about a family with the condition previously described by Unverricht, which he studied from a clinical point of view but also from a genetic perspective. His interest in genetics led him to found the notorious State Institute of Racial Biology, in Uppsala, in 1922. He came under strong criticism and disrepute due to his adherence to Nazi ideology and his advocacy of eugenics and the sterilisation of “genetically unworthy” persons.