ABSTRACT
Torsten Husen was born on 1st March 1916 in Lund, Sweden. His mother had trained as a telegraphist after having completed her secondary education. His father had five years of half-time primary education, a form of education that was typical in rural areas at that time. He was the manager of a sawmill. Husen grew up in southern Sweden and began primary school at the age of six, one year before the official age of entry to school. He had learned to type at home and therefore told his primary school teacher that he could do this so that it was not necessary for him to learn how to write by hand. In 1935, at the age of nineteen, he entered the University of Lund. He began by studying mathematics, then literature and history and finally psychology. In 1938, all children born in 1928 in the city of Malmo were tested.
