page_title: Josef Hammar
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Josef Hammar / Biography / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Josef Hammar with a musk ox head aboard the ship Antarctic outside the east coast of Greenland, 1899.
context_page_description: Josef Hammar was a Swedish military surgeon and adventurer. Hammar was a renowned doctor who saw active service in the second Boer War and the siege of Ladysmith. He also served as a military attaché in the Russo-Japanese War and the siege of Port Arthur.
context_section_description: Josef Hammar was son of August Hammar, a vicar in Nosaby, Sweden, and his wife Elin Jakobina Juliana Ask. After his matriculation in Helsingborg May 31, 1886,. he joined the university in Lund. On September 14, 1888, he took a Medico-Philosophical degree and in 1889 he registered at the Karolinska Institute to study medicine. Four years later on February 15, 1893, he achieved his Candidate of Medicine.
  He continued his studies and practice and between March and May, 1894 he attended courses in Berlin and Dresden and  visited Karlsbad. On June 21, 1895 he is returned to Lund as an assistant at the obstetrical clinic where he practised until April, 1896.  In the summer of 1896, he became a medical field scholar of the 2nd degree and served with The Royal South Skånska Infantry Regiment. The year after, he practiced at The Skånska Cavalry Regiment, followed by The Royal Lifeguards Hussars and The Royal Vedes Artillery Regiment. On September 15, 1898, he took his degree as Licentiate of Medical Science in Lund, becoming a certified doctor. His first job was as a temporary district doctor in Hammenshög district.
caption: Hammar with the head of a musk ox aboard the ship Antarctic outside Greenland 1899
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