text: Anders Gustav Ekeberg was a Swedish scientist, mathematician and expert in Greek literature. 
  His father, Joseph Erik Ekeberg, was a shipbuilder.  His uncle was Carl Gustaf Ekeberg.
  Anders Gustav Ekeberg attended school at Kalmar, Söderåkra, Vestervik, and Karlskrona. 
  He was a gifted student and enrolled at Uppsala University in 1784, graduating in 1788.  His thesis addressed the extraction of oils from seeds.  In 1789 and 1790, he traveled and studied in Germany, hearing Martin Heinrich Klaproth lecture in Berlin as well as Christian Ehrenfried Weigel in Greifswald.