Karl August Bomansson
Karl August Bomansson (born April 5, 1827 in Saltvik on Åland , † February 7, 1906 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish historian, archivist and archaeologist. He is considered a pioneer of archeology and archiving in the country.
Life
In 1853 he organized and modernized the Finnish Senate Archives. In 1858 he published the first doctoral thesis on archeology in Finland: Om Ålands fornminnen ( German About Ålands prehistoric monuments ). From 1862 he was an associate professor of history at the University of Helsinki. Bomansson took part in the excavations in Kökar in 1867 . His assistant was Johannes Reinhold Aspelin (1824–1915). Between 1870 and 1883 he was chief archivist of the Finnish National Archives.
Bomansson's dissertation begins with the numerous and conspicuous archaeological remains in Åland, the so-called Ättehögarna (roughly "ancestral mounds") - mounds of earth that cover the typical fire graves of the later Iron Age . Bomansson has examined 50 to 60 of them, but he says there are enough numbers for future research as there are "several hundred" on Åland. With a few exceptions, however, there is no information about which burial mounds Bomansson examined.
literature
- Karl August Bomansson . In: Bernhard Meijer (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 3 : Bergsvalan – Branstad . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1905, Sp. 1041-1042 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Web links
- Bomansson, Karl August in Uppslagsverket Finland (Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ I fotspåren av en Arkeologisk Pionjär. Kulturarv Museibyrån, Ålands landskapsregering, August 2014, accessed 23 October 2019 (Swedish).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bomansson, Karl August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish historian and archivist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saltvik |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1906 |
| Place of death | Helsinki |