ErikMobergwas, tosaythe least, aunique person and aoneof a kind personality with a multifold of skills. Hiscontributions in the field of hand surgery are well documentedand well known. Less known are maybe his other skills thatrange from archeology and ancient cultures to being a devotedsailor and collector of butterflies. His never-ending curiosityandwillingnesstolearnandrelearninthebroadestaspectoflifeareassetsthatneedtobeemphasizedandhopefullyfollowedbyyounger colleagues. Erik was a true academic and a role modelfor people striving for perfection regardless of topic. He joineddiscussions, often with strong opinions, but with a good moodandopenmind.Hedeliverednumerousmemorablelecturesthatalways took the audience further than expected by provokingthe listener to become active and thoughtful. He was not afraidof challenging the so-called state -of –the-art and he keptstressing that state -of –the-art is a dynamic process that we areall involved in. In other words, the interaction between expertson a regular basis was fundamental for development. In thisintensive process of communication, Erik stressed the need forcollecting information not only from experts but also frompatients and laymen because they may present, directly orindirectly, the key to a major scientific break-through.If one picked a special topic that magnetized Erik Mobergit would no doubt be phenomenon and significance of skinsensation. In his clinical accomplishments sensation certainlyplayed an instrumental role. The following citation representsErik’s interest bordering obsession of sensation as well as hisfirm opinions about how to assess sensation. Or maybe morecorrectly what techniques not to use for evaluating sensation:‘‘It must be emphasized that sensibility is, in my opinion andaccording to my experience, the basis for reconstructivework... for reconstructive surgery, ‘‘feeling’’ is a totallyuseless term, as it covers far too much and distinguisheshardly anything...for examination of useful sensibility inreconstructive hand surgery of all the tests evaluated by theauthors,theonlyonewhichwasfoundtobesignificantisthetwo-pointdiscriminationtestnowperformedwithapaperclip.All other tests of sensory function, in my opinion, should inthis work be abandoned, including cotton wool and paperstrip, pinprick, ordinary tuning fork, the difference betweensharp and blunt, figurewriting, thewrinkling skin test and thetwo-point discrimination test performed with sharp pointedcompass. They are not only useless, they are evenmisleading’’ [7].Erik Moberg graduated from the Faculty of Medicine,UniversityofLundin1932andhisfirstappointmentasadoctorwas in Persia (1932–33) where he met a Swedish nurse, Marta,whomhemarriedin1934.Hedefendedathesisinexperimentalpathology at University of Lund 1936 and began training inorthopaedicsurgery,movedtoGoteborgandtheDepartmentofSurgery at Sahlgrenska Hospital where -in 1942- he became asenior staff member.In 1944, he began to treat hand injuries inspired byDr Bunnell’s principles (Surgery of the Hand, 1944). Heorganizedaseparatewardfortreatmentoffracturesduetotheirwound infections and abscesses. In 1949 he had the first handsurgery ward in Scandinavia fully organized and established atthe Sahlgrenska Hospital.In 1947, Erik spent several months with Dr Sterling Bunnellin the U.S where he observed the post-war treatments at handsurgical centers. Back in Sweden he started the first handsurgical ward in Scandinavia in Goteborg.Erik was always very interested in teaching and especiallyhis new concept of treating hand injuries. He wrote a bookEmergency Surgery of the Hand in 1948, which has beentranslated into many languages and published in severaleditions over the years. Erik Moberg introduced hand surgeryofficially in Sweden in 1948.In 1951, he formed the Nordic Hand Club (now theScandinavian Society for Surgery of the Hand, SSSH). He wasinspired by the American Society for Surgery of the Handwhich was started by Bunnell in 1946. In the early 1970´s the‘‘Moberglecture’’wasfoundedatthesemeetings.In1956,ErikMoberg was given a personal professorship in ExtremitySurgery and in 1958 in Hand Surgery. Erik trained severalsurgeons, and five of them became full time hand surgeons andthemselves established centers in different parts of Sweden.In 1958, Erik attended a meeting of the Second Hand Cluband became one of the first Corresponding Members. This clubeven toured in Scandinavia and was accompanied by manyothers from Europe and the USA in 1961. This was the firstinternationalmeeting andwasorganizedbyErik.Thiswas alsothe foundation for meetings with a high level of scientificpapers. Arthur Barsky, President of the American Society, was