Bertil Lundman

Bertil Johannes Lundman (born September 28, 1899 in Malmö , † November 5, 1993 ) was a Swedish anthropologist .

biography

After he was awarded a kind of bachelor's degree for his work in botany and geography in 1925, his field of activity changed. In 1930 he began studying the Swedish population. In 1945 he received his doctorate in Uppsala with a thesis on Dalarna based on extensive own surveys . From 1947 he worked as a private lecturer and later as a professor of physical anthropology at Uppsala University . Bertil Lundman wrote his autobiography in old age .

Works

Bertil Lundman has carried out numerous population surveys in Sweden since the 1930s and has written several presentations on the anthropology and anthropological population history of Europe and Scandinavia. Besides Swedish, he has published a lot in German and English. Characteristic of Lundman's anthropological works was the very detailed recording of various transition types (phenotype) between the so-called great races of humanity (geographic anthropology).

Publications

Monographs

• North of Rastyper. Geografi and historia. Student forester. Verdandi's amaskrifter 427, Stockholm 1940.
• Sverigens Religiösa Geography. 1942.
• Dala-Allmogens Antropologi. Uppsala 1945 (208 pp.).
• Raser och Folkstockar i Baltoskania. En oversict. Författarens, Uppsala 1946 (77 pp.).
• Dalarna's folk. Typer and Häfstamning. Uppsala 1948 (59 pp.).
• Outline of human race studies in historical times. Munksgaard, Copenhagen 1952 (116 pp.).
• Tribal lore of the peoples (ethnogony). An overview. Lundequistska, Uppsala 1961 (translation from Swedish).
• Geographical Anthropology. Races and peoples of the earth. G. Fischer, Stuttgart 1967 (228 pp.).
• The races and peoples of Europe. IAAEE, New York 1977 (78 pp.).

Articles (selection)

• An oriental-form racial element in the Swedish population. In: Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde 2 (1935), pp. 160–168.
• Results of a re-mapping of Beddoe's England material. In: Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde 3 (1936), pp. 243–249.
• Space and type in southern and central Sweden. In: Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde 4 (1936), pp. 248–250.
• New maps of the height length indices of the skull. In: Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde 9 (1938).
• Folktypsundersökningar i Dalarna. In: Dalarnas Fornminnes och Hembygds Förbunds Arsskrift 1938, pp. 59-109.
• About the continued increase in height in Sweden from 1926 to 1936. (At the same time, a follow-up examination of older material). In: Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde 9 (1939), pp. 266–271.
• About body height increase in the Nordic countries after the world war. In: Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde 11 (1940), pp. 1–5.
• The light Africans and the dark Dalekarlier. In: Ethnos 1949, pp. 163-171.
• Anthropology in and after World War II in Northern Europe. In: Homo 2 (1950), pp. 125-126.
• Dark mixed cromagnide types from Dalarne, Sweden. In: Zt. F. Morphologie und Anthropologie 43 (1951), pp. 222-226.
• Results of anthropological flap research. In: Anthropos 47 (1952), pp. 119-132.
• The people of Europe today. In: Historia Mundi, Vol. 1: Early humanity. Munich 1952, pp. 135-146.
• A Nordic core area in central West Dalarna. In: Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar, 4th series, vol. 4, no. 4 (1953), pp. 1-7.
• Oriental immigration to Western Europe in early antiquity, illuminating today's anthropological material. In: Annalen des Naturhistorisches Museum in Wien 59 (1953), pp. 54–58.
• About anthropological Gau investigations. At the same time, a review of 25 years of my own work (1931–56). In: Homo 7 (1956), pp. 174-180.
• The short-headed types of Dalarna. In: Homo 8 (1957), pp. 95-98.
• The problem of ancient Oriental shipping on the North Sea. Anthropological contributions to the discussion on the existence of more or less direct maritime trade between the Eastern Mediterranean countries and Northwestern Europe. In: Journal of Near Eastern Studies 16 (1957), pp. 105-117.
• Anthropological studies of the mixed Swedish-Finnish population in western central Sweden. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Ser. A, V. Medica-Anthropologica 63 (1957), pp. 1-23.
• Byar, släkter, male cotyper. In: Svenska Landsmal och Svenskt folkliv. Uppsala 1957, pp. 119-123.
• The anthropological exploration of Finland. In: Homo 11 (1960), pp. 228-235.
• Serological contributions to the regional anthropology of Great Britain (and Ireland). In: Homo 13 (1962), pp. 70-72.
• The Racial History of Scandinavia. An outline. In: The Mankind Quarterly 3, No. 2 (1962) (translation from German).
• Social anthropological observations in Sweden. In: Files from the 18th International Sociological Congress, Nuremberg 1958. Meisenheim am Glan 1963, pp. 171–190.
• Anthropological, sociological and psychological studies on Swedish school children. In: Homo 14 (1963), pp. 133-149.
• Anthropological observations on ethnic groups in Sweden. In: Homo 18 (1967), pp. 73-77.
• On the anthropology of the Iberian Peninsula. In: Homo 69 (1969), pp. 245-249.

swell

• Bertil Lundman: The anthropology in and after the second world war in Northern Europe. In: Homo 2 (1950), pp. 125-126.
• Bertil Lundman: Minnen. Institut för framtiden, Huddingen 1987 (autobiography in Swedish, 59 pages).

literature

• Bengt Åhlén: Nordisk bok calendar. En översikt över bokutgivningen i Norden, 1946. Förlaget biblioteksböcker, Stockholm, 1947, p. 358.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bertil Lundman in: www.svenskagravar.se; accessed on October 16, 2018