Britt Gerda Hallqvist, née ''Nyman''"Britt G Hallqvist"
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, Sweden – 20 March 1997 in Lund, Sweden) was a Swedish hymnwriter,

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, and

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. Her grandfather was the medical professor Salomon Eberhard Henschen and she was also the cousin of the neurology professor David H. Ingvar and his sister Cilla Ingvar.

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