The Swedish medical university karolinska institute have a collection in ten in Finland, originating in the skulls, which it has not agreed to return. Possible relevant now require these race studies used the skull of the domestic dirt.The dreary warehouse Uppsala university in 2011: in front of the grave robbing of the sámi woman’s skeleton. JÖRGEN HEIKKI / SVERIGES RADIO
Live summer of 1873. Sweden’s most respected academicians of the Gustaf Retzius track stand in the shelter, when the crowd drops the coffin into the grave the Finnish keeper of the churchyard.
Later in the evening this the karolinska institute docent and a Swedish race investigation, the central character returns to the scene of the two researcher colleagues. Top macabre mission: the men take to dig the grave open.
Some description, even Retzius himself would have a shovel along.
the skull catch of sweden pälkäneen ruin of the church photographed in 1929, only ten years Gustaf Retziuksen after death. Alakuvassa new church. IL-ARCHIVE
the Report of the cemetery can be true or false, the certainty of events is not. True, however, that academic study trip the entourage was involved in as many as 52 Finnish revolutionize dig skulls.
it is also True that now this race professor (1842-1919) functioning after Swedish Karolinska institute in the warehouses is in addition to the other 30 from Helsinki, donated, or in the name of science to make the exchange on the basis of the obtained, Finnish skulls.
for the most part, namely 40 those of the institute skulls, is from Pirkanmaa, located Pälkäneen the old church cemetery. Seven is dug in the centre party, three iron ponds and two Uncle or obtained in exchange Helsinki university anatomy department.
Gustaf Retzius reaching the Finnish skulls to confirm his theory, according to which the finns were not the same purebred origin as the swedes and other scandinavians. The short skull of the finns – as well as the sámi – were Retziuksen according to the family, mainly the mongols, while the high kalloinen the swedes were a north germanic race.
Finns ”clumsy”
Finland-oriented research during the voyage we do not just shovel work. Gustaf Retzius and his entourage toured across the country to remote villages deep in measuring people’s skulls with the aim to find evidence of ”the Finnish race” existence.
Retzius believed that he had received confirmation from the theory of his comparison of grave digging the old skull of the dimensions of the living human skull. He recorded proportions in the range of approximately three to ten of the skull.
race to the professor’s conclusions, according to the typical short-of the finns was melancholy and sentimentality. The finns were sitting ideally in the sauna or sing their folk songs. They had not achieved anything significant, unlike for example, in countries conquered by the germans.
One of the remote villages inhabitants Retzius described in 1878, published the Finnish anthropology in his book on the ”slow-witted, slow and clumsy-moving, in every way staid.”
Pälkäneen skull caused Retziuksen however, the head of the effort, most of them when they were long. The professor however, you can find an explanation about it: the area was, according to him, had a strong Swedish native population.
a Group of possible by demanding Sweden to return the skull to where they need to be dug. Stock. Merja Ojala, AL / MERJA ojala possible by
Graves dug by old kalloilla no longer in year ten have not been any breed of scientific importance, so Sweden has started to recover the collection, which was collected from many countries.
at the karolinska institute has restored the skulls, inter alia, New Zealand, the Polynesian islands and the united states. The last time this year in August, it handed over the seven indigenous inhabitants of the earthly remains of the Australian ambassador.
Finland is, however, not restored any of the skull. Not, despite the fact that at least three of them is marked with the deceased’s name.
we’ve been getting them mostly sketchy and disparaging responses, said Swedish Finnish human rights activist group leader, the gothenburger sociologist Timo Lyre .
He told me that the skull of a refund required to be group has recently joined the third ten persons, who are registered in Finland dig up the dead as possible concerned.
– Being in the context, inter alia, the location of the neighborhood associations. Put the word including Facebook, Lyre to tell persons about finding.
most of the graves were dug open Pälkäneen a ruin next to the church. TALSuhtautuminen clammy
Possible by living in different parts of the nordic countries. Their family have, however, lived the witch-1800s in a small town, where the skull came from. If the earthly remains would be received in Finland, a kindred relations could survive the dna study.
Timo Lyre will be amazed at the karolinska institute clammy to approach this issue.
– However, it is known that the tomb of the looting happened only racist race research for the purpose of showing the Swedish race superiority, he said.
Finnish skulls is not only the Karolinska institute. The lyre of the activist team has had the same issue in the context also of Uppsala and Lund universities.
the Activists have approached also the Finnish church government, ministry of education and culture and the Finnish embassy in Stockholm. System according to any of these is not shown very great interest in the Finnish earthly remains and restore them.
– we Have now received the atonement, your appointment at the karolinska institute with the representatives. December 19. on the day we hand them to potential interested parties signed by the demands of skulls return to her homeland soil, Timo Lyyra explains.
the requirement of the surrender date fixed 10.12. at 9:27.