Israel Hwasser

[2] After his return to Sweden, he pursued further studies in surgery at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

While he was there, he gradually changed his view of medicine, beginning to believe that humans caused their own illness, while healing was a divine force.

He returned to Uppsala in order to fight against plans to locate all medical education in Sweden at the Karolinska Institute.

[1][3] He was also outspoken about his views on public morality and decency, and in his last years he expressed deep admiration for Tsar Nicholas I as the defender of Christendom against liberalism, socialism and godlessness.

While a member of the latter institution he wrote various texts on literary criticism, mainly focusing on public morality.