and December 1944, he issued protective passports and housed Jews, saving tens of thousands. Early History The earliest known member patrilineally of the Wallenberg family is maintaining farmer Per Hansson (1670–1741) of Herseberga farm in the parish of Skärskind outside Linköping in Östergötland, who, in 1692, married Kerstin Jacobsdotter Schuut (1671–1752). The couple had three sons; one of the sons, Anders, a vicar, adopted the name Hertzman, and became the progenitor of the Hertzman family, whereas their other two sons, the county sherrifs Jacob and Hans, adopted the name Wallberg. Jacob Wallberg married twice, first Märta Christina Kiuhlman, daughter of inspector Erik Kiuhlman, and then Anna Kristina Tillberg, daughter of vicar Marcus Joannis Tillberg. The children of the second marriage adopted the surname Wallenberg. The eldest son was the lector of theology and vicar of Slaka parish, Marcus Wallenberg. His younger brother, Jacob Wallenberg, was a naval chaplain of the Swedish East India Company, and author of the Swedish classic, a travelogue My Son on the Galley, original title . The eldest son of lector and vicar Marcus Wallenberg, and the only child in his marriage to Sara Helena Kinnander, was Marcus Wallenberg (1774–1883). Marcus Wallenberg studied at Uppsala University in the early 1790s and was promoted Master of Philosophy in 1797 and in the same year graduated juris utriusque. He became an associate professor of Roman eloquence in 1800, but was forced to leave Uppsala the same year after the so-called music process and moved to Lund where he married Anna Laurentia Barfoth, daughter of professor of anatomy at Lund university, Andreas Barfoth, and Elsa Maria Bager, of the famous merchant family Bager of Malmö. In 1802, he became a notarius publicus in Linköping, and in 1805, an associate professor of Greek at Linköping University where he translated the Illiad and Odyssey from Greek to Swedish. He was ordained in 1817, promoted doctor of theology around the time of Karl XIV Johan's ascension to the throne, and between 1819 and 1833, held the position as bishop of Linköping diocese. He attended the Riksdags in 1823 and between 1828 to 1830. In 1801, Wallenberg was elected a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music and in 1821, he became an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. Marcus Wallenberg was also engaged in freemasonry and a member of the masonic lodges in Malmö and