Editing Axel Munthe (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Anacapri view.jpg|thumb|[[Anacapri]], 2004]]
Axel Munthe was born in [[Oskarshamn]], Sweden, his family's home.<ref name="MuntheMunthe1953">{{cite book|author1=Gustaf Lorentz Munthe|author2=Lorentz Munthe|author3=Gudrun von Uexküll|title=Buch von Axel Munthe. English|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTU3AAAAIAAJ|year=1953|publisher=John Murray|page=9}}</ref> His family was originally of [[Flemish people|Flemish descent]], and settled in Sweden during the 16th century.

Munthe began college in 1874 at [[Uppsala University]]. While travelling in Italy in 1875, Munthe sailed in a small boat from [[Sorrento]] to the island of [[Capri]]. Climbing the [[Phoenician Steps]] to the village of [[Anacapri]], he came upon a peasant's house and the adjacent ruin of a chapel dedicated to [[Saint Michael|San Michele]], and was immediately captivated by the idea of rebuilding the ruin and turning it into a home.

Munthe studied medicine in [[Uppsala]], [[Montpellier]] and Paris (where he was a student of [[Jean-Martin Charcot|Charcot]]), and graduated as M.D. in 1880 at the age of 23. Though his thesis was on the subjects of [[gynaecology]] and [[obstetrics]], Munthe was deeply impressed by Professor [[Jean-Martin Charcot]]'s pioneering work in [[neurology]], having attended his lectures at the [[Salpêtrière]] hospital. He later had a falling out with Charcot, and left the Salpêtrière denouncing his former teacher's work on hypnotism as fraudulent and scientifically unsound.<ref>The Story of Axel Munthe by his cousin Dr.Gustaf Munthe and the Baroness Gudrun Uexkűll. Publisher John Murray, First Edition 1953</ref>

'''Parents and siblings'''

He was the youngest of three siblings born to sickly, autocratic, violin playing, puritanical, chemist father Martin Arnold Fredrick Munthe (#-1877) and his second wife Louisa Aurora Ugarsky (# - 1878). 
The eldest was Anna (b. 1854) who married twice. At 21 she married the painter [[Reinhold Norstedt]], during which times her flower paintings were exhibited in the National Galleries and other galleries. After Norstedt's death in 1911, she married Frans Siberg, a veterinarian.

The second child was Arnold a future Artist, Author, playwright and Retired Swedish Naval Captain (# - 1927) who served with the French Imperial Fleet produced and wrote several renown plays Magnus Stenbok, Magdalena Rudenskiold <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Magdalena-Rudensch%C3%B6ld/6000000007673978404|title=Magdalena Charlotta Rudenschöld|website=geni_family_tree|accessdate=19 September 2018}}</ref> and The March over the Belt. Arnold also wrote the several Naval books including Charles XII and the Russian Navy and the textbooks Swedish Naval Heroes series.