Hjalmar Uggla, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hjalmar Uggla

soil scientist and member of anti-Nazi resistance in Poland

Date of Birth: 17-Mar-1908

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 13-Mar-1983

Profession: geographer

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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.