Lithner K
Sydsven Medicinhist Sallsk Arsskr. 1994;31:147-50.
In 1987 the Swedish zoologist Karl Georg Wingstrand, (1919-92), who was professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Copenhagen, was going to retire. In that connection he handed over as a gift to the Historical Museum of Malmö a cranium, which he had inherited after his paternal grandfather's brother, Fr. august Wingstrand. It had been found, when the latter's home was emptied in the beginning of the 1910's after his death. On the inside of the sawed-off top of the cranium was written "Housewife Elsa Nilsdotter from Bäsinge, hanged on the Castle of Malmö in 1882". According to family tradition August Wingstrand had acquired it when serving as a prison doctor in Malmö. August Wingstrand was born in 1855 and started his medical studies at the University of Lund in 1878. After studies there and at the Medical School of Stockholm he took his degree as Licentiate of Medicine in 1897. The exceptionally long study period of 40 semesters can partly be explained through his active participation in the student life of his "Nation". After taking his degree he became a psychiatrist in mental hospitals and died in 1910. The background of the cranium was that in 1881 a farmer, Månsson, in the province of Skåne was shot and killed. The reason was that his wife, Else Nilsdotter, and the hired man, Sjöstedt, were in love with each other and had instigated the hired man's uncle, Eld, to shoot him. The crime was immediately solved and Else Nilsdotter, Sjöstedt and Eld were sentenced to death on January 7, 1882. Before the sentence had been submitted to the Court of Appeal Else Nilsdotter committed suicide on January 25, 1882, through hanging or rather strangling herself in her cell at the Prison in Malmm, the old fortress Malmöhus, where the Historical Museum now is situated. According to regulations her body was handed over to the Anatomical Institution of the University of Lund for use in dissection and afterwards she was buried there. The probable reason why the cranium did not follow the body was that some medical student had grabbed it in order to put it on his desk according to the habit of the period and that it had ended up in the possession of August Wingstrand. The latter had no post in the Anatomical or Patological institutions during the spring semester of 1882. Eld and Sjöstedt were reprieved from the death sentence and released in 1908 after serving 26 years of hard labour.
1987年，瑞典动物学家卡尔·格奥尔格·温斯特兰德（1919 - 1992），当时是哥本哈根大学的比较解剖学教授，即将退休。在这方面，他将一个颅骨作为礼物交给了马尔默历史博物馆，这个颅骨是他从父亲祖父的兄弟弗雷德里克·奥古斯特·温斯特兰德那里继承来的。它是在20世纪10年代初后者去世后，其住所被清空时被发现的。在锯掉的颅骨顶部内侧写着：“来自贝辛厄的家庭主妇埃尔莎·尼尔松多特，1882年在马尔默城堡被绞死”。根据家族传统，奥古斯特·温斯特兰德在担任马尔默监狱医生时获得了它。奥古斯特·温斯特兰德出生于1855年，1878年在隆德大学开始医学学习。在那里和斯德哥尔摩医学院学习后，他于1897年获得医学执照学位。长达40个学期的超长学习期部分可以通过他积极参与所属“同乡会”的学生生活来解释。获得学位后，他成为精神病院的一名精神病医生，并于1910年去世。这个颅骨的背景是，1881年，斯科讷省的一个农民曼松被枪杀。原因是他的妻子埃尔丝·尼尔松多特和雇工舍斯特德相爱，并唆使雇工的叔叔埃尔德开枪打死了他。罪行立即被侦破，埃尔丝·尼尔松多特、舍斯特德和埃尔德于1882年1月7日被判处死刑。在判决提交给上诉法院之前，埃尔丝·尼尔松多特于1882年1月25日在马尔默监狱（即现在历史博物馆所在的旧要塞马尔默hus）的牢房里自杀，是上吊，更确切地说是勒死了自己。根据规定，她的尸体被交给隆德大学解剖学机构用于解剖，之后被埋葬在那里。颅骨没有随尸体而去的可能原因是，某个医科学生按照当时的习惯把它拿走放在了自己的课桌上，结果它最终落入了奥古斯特·温斯特兰德手中。1882年春季学期，后者在解剖学或病理学机构没有职位。埃尔德和舍斯特德被缓期执行死刑，在服了26年苦役后于1908年获释。
