Henrik Hesselman (28 January 1874 – 11 July 1943) was a

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professor, foresters, and

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Oskar August Henrik Vilhelm Hesselman was born in

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. His parents were factory owner Bror August Hesselman and Marie Louise Hesselman, née Åberg. He was the brother of civil engineer

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(1877–1957) and linguist Bengt Hesselman(1875–1952). In 1898, he participated as an assistant botanist in the expedition on the ship ''Antarctic'' led by Arctic explorer

Alfred Gabriel Nathorst Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (7 November 1850 – 20 January 1921) was a Swedish Arctic explorer, geologist, and palaeobotanist. He travelled to Spitzbergen, Svalbard and Greenland where he took an interest in the Arctic floras from the Paleozoic ...

(1850–1921) to Bear Island,

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and

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. Hesselman earned his Ph.D. at

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and was an associate professor of botany at Stockholm University. From 1912, he was a professor for forest biology at the Swedish Forest Research Institute (''Statens skogsförsöksanstalt''), today the Department of Forest Research at the

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, which he presided from 1925 to 1939. Hesselman was secretary at the Second International Agrogeological Conference in Stockholm in 1910, He was elected a member of the

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in 1913, and of the

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in 1928.

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