Gerhard Lindblom

Karl Gerhard Lindblom (born August 26, 1887 ; died June 8, 1969 ) was a Swedish ethnographer , Africanist, and university professor who worked in British East Africa in the 1910s . He wrote various works on the Akamba (Kamba).

Works (selection)

Outlines of a Tharaka Grammar, with a list of words and specimens of the language , Uppsala Appelberg, 1914
The Akamba in British East Africa. Uppsala, Appelberg, 1920 ( Archives d'Études Orientales , No. 17) - digitized
African relics and Indian borrowings in the culture of the Bush negroes of Surinam. A comparative ethnographic study. Elanders Boktryckeri, Gothenburg, 1924
Notes on the Kamba language. Uppsala Appelberg, 1925
Notes on Kamba grammar: with two appendices: Kamba names of persons, places, animals and plants - salutations , 1926
Circumcision among the Akamba , 1927
Kamba folklore , 3 vols., 1928–1935
Notes ethnographiques sur le Kavirondo septentrional et la colonie du Kenya , 1932
Spears with two or more heads, particularly in Africa , 1934
Ethnological and anthropological studies in Sweden during the war , 1946

Beckmann, Leif, Count Harry Hamilton Gerhard Lindblom and others: Hunters, hunting and game all over the world. An anthology of modern hunting. I. Volume: Europe; Volume II: The rest of the world. Munich-Hamburg, FC Mayer Verlag, 1953

In Memory of Gerhard Lindblom . Stockholm: Etnografiska Museet . 1969 Ethnos; Vol. 34, 1969, Suppl.
Yefim Anatolyevich Resvan: В зеркале времени. Кенийская фотоколлекция Герхарда Линдблома [V zerkale vremeni. Kenijskaja fotocolkcija Gerkharda Lindbloma]. In the mirror of time. The Gerhard Lindblom Collection: Photos from Kenya. Photo exhibition catalog. Saint-Pétersbourg 2010, ISBN 978-5-91373-036-7 , ISBN 978-5-91373-033-6 . (Catalog in Russian and English. In the Mirrors of Time: Kenya photo collection by Gerhard Lindblom [1887–1969])

personal data
SURNAME	Lindblom, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lindblom, Karl Gerhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish ethnographer and Africanist in East Africa
DATE OF BIRTH	August 26, 1887
DATE OF DEATH	June 8, 1969