Martin Persson Nilsson

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Martin Persson Nilsson
Grave site in Lund

Martin Persson Nilsson (born July 12, 1874 in Stoby , Kristianstads län , Sweden , † April 7, 1967 in Lund ) was a Swedish classical philologist and religious historian .

Life

Nilsson was from 1900 private lecturer at the University of Lund . In 1905 he became secretary of the "Swedish Archaeological Commission" on Rhodes . In 1909 he became a full professor of Ancient Greek , Classical Archeology and Ancient History at Lund University. Here he was rector from 1936 to 1939 . His research covered almost all areas of classical antiquity , especially the Greek religion . He has also achieved important things in ethnology , as well as in folklore , especially in Swedish.

Nilsson was also from 1918 secretary of the Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund (Royal Society of Letters in Lund) and from 1920 a member of the Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets academies in Stockholm. From February 7, 1924 Nilsson was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences , from 1929 member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and since 1967 foreign member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres .

His best-known work is the history of the Greek religion in the handbook of classical studies , which experienced several editions. For the textbook on the history of religion by Chantepie de la Saussaye , he provided the contribution about the Greeks.

In 1939 Nilsson was elected to the British Academy and in 1940 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Nilsson had been married to Hanna Stjernquist (1886-1984), daughter of Otto Stjernquist and his wife Cecilia Tufvesson, since March 15, 1907.

Fonts

  • Studia de Dionysiis Atticis. Lund 1900 ( archive.org ).
  • Greek festivals of religious importance excluding the Attic. Teubner, Leipzig 1906 ( archive.org ). Reprint Teubner, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-519-07254-8 .
  • Timbres amphoriques de Lindos. Luno, Copenhagen 1909.
  • Primitive religion. Lund 1908. German: Primitive Religion. Mohr, Tübingen 1911.
  • The popular festivals of the year. Tübingen 1914 ( archive.org ). Swedish: Årets folkliga fester. Stockholm 1915.
  • Daimon. Gudemagter og Psykologi hos Homer. Copenhagen 1918 (Danish).
  • Olympics. En framställning av the classic mythologies. Gebers, Stockholm 1919.
  • Primitive time-reckoning. A study in the origins and first development of the art of counting time among the primitive and early culture peoples. Lund 1920 ( archive.org ).
  • The romerska kejsartiden. Norstedt, Stockholm 1921. English translation: Imperial Rome. Bell, London 1926.
  • The grekiska religionens historia. Stockholm 1921. German: History of the Greek Religion (= Handbook of Classical Studies. 5th section, 2nd part). 2 volumes, Beck Munich 1941–1950. 3rd, revised and supplemented edition 1967–1974.
  • Rasblandningarnas omfång and betydelse i det romerska kejsarriket. Stockholm 1923.
  • The Minoan-Mycenaean religion and its survival in Greek religion (= Acta Regiae Societatis Humaniorum Litterarum Lundensis. Volume 9). Gleerup, Lund 1927.
  • Cults, myths, oracles, and politics in ancient Greece. With two appendices: the Ionian Phylae, the Phratries. Gleerup, Lund 1951.
  • The Dionysiac mysteries of the Hellenistic and Roman age. Gleerup, Lund 1957.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Nilsson Martin . In: Sten Lagerström, Elvan Sölvén (ed.): Vem är det. Svensk biografisk handbok 1969 . 29th year PA Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1968, ISSN  0347-3341 , p. 1103 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 11, 2020 .
  3. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1900-1949 ( amacad.org PDF). Retrieved September 24, 2015.
  4. ^ Nilsson, Nils Martin Persson . In: Ingeborg Burling, Elvan Sölvén (ed.): Vem är det. Svensk biografisk handbok 1957 . 23rd year PA Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1956, ISSN  0347-3341 , p. 704-705 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Nilsson, Martin Persson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish classical philologist and historian of religion
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Stoby
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1967
Place of death Lund