Sundberg was an important educator in Sweden from the 1920s on. In 1927, together with architect Carl Malmsten he founded Olofskolan in Stockholm.^[1] In 1928 he founded the boarding school Viggbyholmsskolan in Täby, which was dedicated to progressive education. It was the first mixed boarding school in Sweden.^[2]^[3]

He was a Quaker and was a peace activist. Already in 1933 Sundberg supported refugees from Nazi Germany by accommodating them in the boarding school. In 1936, he started a Quaker committee for supporting German refugees in which he was engaged in until his death.^[4] In 1943 he was involved in starting the Swedish branch of Service Civil International, Internationella Arbetslag.

The writer Gunnar Sundberg (1922-2005) is his son.

Life

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