Background
Liljestrand was born in Gothenburg but finished school at the Norra Real school in Stockholm, before matriculating at the University College of Stockholm in 1904.
Pharmacologist physician university professor
Liljestrand was born in Gothenburg but finished school at the Norra Real school in Stockholm, before matriculating at the University College of Stockholm in 1904.
Candidate Medicine, Stockholm, 1909, Licentiate of Medicine, 1915, Doctor of Medicine 1917, Doctor of Science (honorary), 1952. Doctor of Medicine (honorary), Dorpat, 1932, Ghent, 1955, Paris, 1958. Was married to Elsa Margareta Wretlind, December 10, 1910 (deceased 1948).
He held the professorship in pharmacology and physiology at the Karolinska Institute from 1927 to 1951. Liljestrand was trained as a physiologist under Professor Jöns Johansson but became known mainly as a pharmacologist and for his cooperation with Ulf von Euler (later Nobel laureate of Medicine and Physiology) and Yngve Zotterman. He was secretary of the Nobel Committee of the Karolinska Institute for 40 years.
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]
In 1938, he was made a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Married second, Maud von Koch, October 24, 1949. Children: Brita (Mistress Sven Grape), Ake, Margit (Mistress Kjell Halvarson).