Johnny Roosval

Johnny Roosval

Johnny Roosval (with full name John August Emanuel Roosval ) (born August 29, 1879 in Kalmar , † October 18, 1965 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish art historian.

After graduating from school in 1897, Roosval studied at Uppsala University until 1899 , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He then studied art history at the University of Berlin under Adolph Goldschmidt and Heinrich Wölfflin , where he also received his doctorate in 1903 on altars in Swedish churches from the workshop of master Jan Borman in Brussels . In the same year he got his first job at the Nordic Museum and then became a lecturer in art history in Uppsala in 1905, from 1920 professor at today's Stockholm University and gave the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University in 1936/37 . In 1942 he retired.

As an art historian, Roosval was a specialist in the architecture and art of the Middle Ages, especially the churches on the island of Gotland . Together with Sigurd Curman (1879–1966) he initiated the publication of the large inventory of Sveriges Kyrkor. (German: Churches in Sweden ). After a first test volume from 1912, the work appeared in around 225 volumes.

Roosvall was a member of several academies, u. a. of the Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies (since 1926). In 1952, Uppsala University awarded him an honorary theological doctorate .

Publications

Maja Lundqvist: Bibliographia Roosvaliana: fullständig förteckning över Prof. Johnny Roosval's tryckta skrifter 1897-1954 (a complete bibliography of the printed works of Prof. Roosval AD 1897-1954) , Stockholm 1954

• Carved altars in Swedish churches and museums from the workshop of the Brussels carver Jan Borman. Strasbourg 1903.
• Gotland's churches. 1911.
• Gotland's stone masters. 1918.
• Romansk const. (Art of the Romanesque.) 1930.
• Gotländsk Vitiarius. 1950.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johnny Roosval in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dictionary of Art Historians