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Karl Gustaf Torsten Sjögren (/ˈʃoʊɡrən/ SHOH-grən, Swedish: [ˈɧø̂ːɡreːn]; 30 January 1896 – 27 July 1974) was a Swedish psychiatrist and geneticist. He was born in Södertälje and died in Gothenburg. In Stockholm, he graduated as a licentiate of medicine in 1925, and in 1931 he became doctor of medicine and a docent of psychiatry at Lund university. Torsten Sjögren was the chairman of the International Federation of Eugenic Organizations in the late 1930s. According to Stefan Kühl in For the Betterment of the Race (originally Die Internationale der Rassiten 1997), Sjögren was submissive to the Nazi party with their increasingly controversial views on eugenics, which contributed to the disintegration of the organization in the latter half of the 1930s. Torsten Sjögren was professor of psychiatry at the Karolinska Institute from 1945 to 1961. He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1951. Sjögren–Larsson syndrome is named after him (along with Tage Larsson) as well as Marinesco–Sjögren syndrome.

He was also involved in the characterization of juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis.

References

1. "Sjögren pronunciation". Forvo.
2. doctor/1609 at Who Named It?
3. Sjögren, Torsten (1931). Die juvenile amaurotische Idiotie: klinische and erblichkeitsmedizinische Untersuchungen. Lund.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
4. Kühl, Stefan. (6 August 2013). For the betterment of the race : the rise and fall of the international movement for eugenics and racial hygiene. New York, NY. pp. 109–110. ISBN 978-1-137-28611-6. OCLC 830837444.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
5. synd/1678 at Who Named It?
6. SJOGREN T, LARSSON T (1957). "Oligophrenia in combination with congenital ichthyosis and spastic disorders; a clinical and genetic study". Acta Psychiatr Neurol Scand Suppl. 113: 1–112. PMID 13457946.

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