{{Short description|Swedish physician (1893–1956)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}} {{Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL}} '''Gunnar Dahlberg''' (1893–1956) was a Swedish [[physician]], [[Eugenics|eugenist]] and [[geneticist]].
From 1922 to 1924 he was the assistant of [[Herman Lundborg]] at ''[[Statens institut för rasbiologi]]''. In 1935, when Lundborg retired, Dahlberg succeeded him as the head of the institute. Dahlberg held the post until his death in 1956 and was succeeded by the geneticist Jan Arvid Böök.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Martin Ericsson|title=What happened to ‘race’ in race biology? The Swedish State Institute for Race Biology, 1936−1960|journal=[[Scandinavian Journal of History]]|year=2021|volume=46|issue=1|page=126|doi=10.1080/03468755.2020.1778520|doi-access=free}}</ref>
In September 1939, he was one of the signatories of the [[eugenics manifesto]]. In the 1950s, Gunnar Dahlberg gave his support to the [[UNESCO Statement on Race]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/news-and-events/events/senku-seminars/2018/senku-seminar-with-jon-royne-kyllingstad.html|title=SENKU-seminar with Jon Røyne Kyllingstad|publisher=[[Museum of Cultural History, Oslo]]|access-date=29 May 2019}}</ref>
== Bibliography == *{{cite book|author=Dahlberg, Gunnar|title=Race, reason and rubbish: an examination of the biological credentials of the Nazi Creed|year=1942|publisher=George Allen & Unwin Ltd|place=London}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=McCormick |first=Thomas C. |date=1943 |title=Review of Race, Reason, and Rubbish. A Primer of Race Biology. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2085831 |journal=American Sociological Review |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=492–493 |doi=10.2307/2085831 |issn=0003-1224|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Reuter |first=E. B. |date=1943 |title=Review of Race-Reason and Rubbish: A Primer of Race Biology. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2770726 |journal=American Journal of Sociology |volume=49 |issue=1 |pages=93–95 |issn=0002-9602}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}} *
{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dahlberg, Gunnar}} [[Category:1893 births]] [[Category:1956 deaths]] [[Category:People from Västervik Municipality]] [[Category:Swedish geneticists]] [[Category:Swedish eugenicists]] [[Category:Burials at Uppsala old cemetery]] [[Category:20th-century Swedish medical doctors]]