Nils Åberg

Nils Åberg (born July 24, 1888 in Norrköping , † February 28, 1957 in Uppsala ) was an important Swedish prehistoric archaeologist .

Career

After graduating from high school in Norrköping (1907), he studied in Uppsala. He received his doctorate in 1912. In 1915 he became a lecturer in Nordic and comparative prehistory at Uppsala University . Since 1928 he represented the newly established subject at Stockholm University , which was converted into a chair in 1949. The term Walternienburg-Bernburger Kultur goes back to him (1918).

From 1933 he was a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and from 1951 a member of the Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies .

Publications

(Selection, in chronological order)

• On the origin of ceramics of the Schönfeld type. Gebauer-Schwetschke, Halle / Saale 1916.
• The Nordic cultural area in Central Europe during the Younger Stone Age (= Arbeten. 22, ZDB -ID 980367-1 ). 2 volumes. Akademiska Bokhandeln et al., Uppsala 1918.
• Studies about the Schönfeld ceramics, the Swedish "band ceramics" and the Jutland upper grave ceramics. In: Provincial Museum of the Province of Saxony in Halle. Publications. Bd. 1, H. 3, ZDB -ID 567707-5 , 1918, (also contains: Georg Wilke: Archäologie und Indogermanenproblem. ).
• The typology of the Nordic battle axes (= Mannus library. 17, ZDB ID 516952-5 ). Curt Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1918.
• Bronze Age and Early Iron Age chronology (= Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies. Monograph series. 18, 1–5, ISSN  0347-0873 ). 5 volumes. Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademiens Akademien, Stockholm 1930–1935;
  • Volume 1: Italy. 1930;
  • Volume 2: Hallstatt Period. 1931;
  • Volume 3: Copper and Early Bronze Ages. 1932;
  • Volume 4: Greece. 1933;
  • Volume 5: Central European High Bronze Age. 1935.
• Nordisk befolkningshistoria under stenåldern (= Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademiens Handlingar. 70, 1, ZDB -ID 953008-3 ). Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm 1949.

Web links

• Stone Age pioneers