Nils Peter Hamberg

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Nils Peter Hamberg, born 04 November 1815 in Stockholm, dead 13 February 1902, Swedish pharmacist (1838), physician (1858). Started teaching chemistry in 1861 and later on became a chemist working with the law enforcement. Older brother to the missionary Knut Theodor Hamberg (1819-1854).

Nils Peter Hamberg was son of Nicholas Hamberg (1785-1830) and his wife Magdalena Lovisa, born Löfvenberg, (1791-1863). In 1830 Nils became an pharmacist apprentice at the pharmacy Gripen in Stockholm, in 1838 he took the pharmacist exam. Spring 1839 Nils bought the pharmacy Hjorten at Kungsholmen in Stockholm, which he ran until April 1850. At the same time he studied medicine and disputated 1848 for the medicine doctorate under Göran Wahlenberg, professor in botanics at Uppsala university.

The thesis had the title "Om vegetabiliska droguers insamling och förvaring" (About collection and storage of drugs from plants) and built on the collection of drugs from plant that Nils had done during the years 1843-1847. Interested pharmacists could buy a sample of the collection of drugs that Nils had created, which consisted of 337 samples and a couple synthetic.

During the years 1848-1854, Nils taught in chemistry and pharmacy at Karolinska Institutet and also worked as a physician. 1851 Nils was granted a travel scholarship by the state and went on a study journey to Germany, Belgium and Great Britain to study physiological and pathological chemistry, it lasted until September 1852. He also got the chance to visit the great world exhibition in London, which he reported from on his homecoming. During his travels he collected collectibles which resulted in a private museum, Stocholms museum for natural science, slöjd and art. This existed from 1854 until 1864, whereupon the collections where disbanded.

Another result of the trip where that Nils, after foreign models, 1855 established a private chemical laboratory in the Keyserska house at Tegelbacken in Stockholm.