Erik Nylén

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Erik Nylén (born October 18, 1918 in Uppsala , † December 18, 2017 ) was a Swedish prehistorian . He received his doctorate in 1955 from Uppsala University with a thesis on the Iron Age on the island of Gotland .

As the successor to Greta Arwidsson, Nylén was head of the Gotland department of the Riksantikvarieämbetet from 1970 to 1984 and played a leading role in numerous excavations on Gotland. He introduced modern documentation and exploration methods (e.g. aerial photo evaluation, X-ray photography). He was married to the archaeologist Lena Thunmark-Nylén.

Fonts

  • The Younger Pre-Roman Iron Age of Gotland: Finds, Chronology, Forms . Uppsala, 1955.
  • Skatten från Havors fornborg. Próxima Thule. Sverige och Europa under forntid och medeltid. Hyllningsskrift till HM Konungen on November 11, 1962 . Stockholm 1962.
  • Gotland runestone style . Stockholm 1972.
  • Gotland soil monuments. Visby Gotlandskonst, 1976.
  • Vikingaskepp mot Miklagård - Krampmacken i österled . Stockholm 1987.
  • Tuna i Badelunda: guld, kvinnor, båtar 1 & 2 . In: Västerås kulturnämnds script series . Västerås 1994.
  • The Havor hoard: the gold, the bronzes, the fort . Stockholm 2005, ISBN 91-7402-345-4 .
  • Picture stones on Gotland with Jan Peder Lamm. (Translation: Margareta and Michael Müller-Wille) 2nd edition. Neumünster 1991, ISBN 3-529-01823-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary , accessed on January 2, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Nylén, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Uppsala
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 2017