Henrik Hesselman was a Swedish

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 botanist. He was the brother of Jonas

Jonas Hesselman

Jonas Hesselman , was a Swedish engineer. He built the first spark ignition engine with direct injection of fuel into the cylinder.Hesselman worked from 1899 to 1916 for AB Diesel Engines in Sickla in Nacka just outside Stockholm, from 1901 as Head of Construction...

 and Bengt Ivar Hesselman. From 1912 on he was a professor for forest biology at the Swedish forest research institute (Statens skogsförsöksanstalt, today the Department of Forest Research at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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 at Uppsala

Uppsala

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), which he presided from 1925 to 1939.

He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture in 1913, and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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in 1928.

Further reading

• Malmström, Carl: Henrik Hesselman 28/1 1874 - 11/7 1943 (obituary), 1944.