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Roberg was the son of the royal apothecary Daniel Roberg, matriculated at Uppsala University at a young age in 1675 , and left for a long foreign journey in 1680 to Germany , France and England , during which he studied in Wittenberg and Leiden . After coming home briefly he returned to Leiden and completed his doctorate in Medicine there in 1693 .

He became a professor of Medicine at Uppsala University in 1697 and retained the chair until 1740 . He founded the ''Nosocomium academicum'', the later Uppsala Academic Hospital, in 1708 .

Lars Roberg was the teacher of Carl Linnaeus and Peter Artedi , among others.