Lars Edvard Phragmén was a Swedish mathematician.
The son of a college professor, he studied at Uppsala then Stockholm, graduating from Uppsala in 1889. He became professor at Stockholm in 1892, after Sofia Kovalevskaia. Wikipedia
Born: September 2, 1863, Örebro, Sweden
Died: 1937 (age 74 years), Stockholm, Sweden
Education: Uppsala University
Children: Gösta Phragmén
Partner: Gyda Sohlberg
Parents: Lars Phragmén