Oscar Almgren

Oscar Almgren (born November 9, 1869 in Stockholm , † May 13, 1945 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish prehistorian . His work on fibula forms in Northern Europe, published in 1897, is still considered authoritative today.

Life

Almgren was the son of a textile manufacturer. In 1886 he began studying linguistics as well as Nordic and classical archeology . He first worked at the History Museum in Stockholm . In 1914 he moved to a chair at Uppsala University . Almgren began to go blind in 1918 , but continued teaching until 1925. In 1919 he became a corresponding member of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory . At the Königsberg Kant celebration (1924) the Albertus University awarded him an honorary doctorate .

Almgren led many excavations, including that of the burial mound of Håga , where the later King Gustav VI. Adolf was one of his students.

Fonts

• Studies of northern European fibula forms of the first centuries AD, taking into account the provincial Roman and southern Russian forms. Hæggström, Stockholm 1897, (Upsala, University, dissertation, 1897; digitized version ; 2nd edition, supplemented by an afterword. (= Mannus Library. 32, ISSN  0720-7158 ). Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1923; unchanged reprint of the 2nd supplemented Edition. Habelt, Bonn 1973, ISBN 3-7749-1258-0 ).
• 'Kung Björns Hög' and andra fornlämningar vid Håga. På föranstaltande af HKH Prins Gustav Adolf undersökta 1902-03 (= Arkeologiska monografier. 1, ISSN  0347-0873 ) Beckman, Stockholm 1905.
• On the importance of the Marcomanni Empire in Bohemia for the development of Germanic industry in the early imperial period. In: Mannus . 5, 1913, pp. 265-278.
• with Birger Nerman : Gotland's older Iron Age. Based on the finds and excavation reports kept in Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm (= Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies. Monographs. 4, 1–2, ISSN  0347-0873 ). 2 booklets. Hæggström, Stockholm 1914–1923.
• Svenska folkets äldsta öden. Ett par inledningskapitel till vår historia (= Fordomtima. 3, ZDB -ID 978779-3 ). Akademiska bokhandeln, Uppsala 1920.
• Hällristningar och kultbruk. Bidrag till belysning av de nordiska bronsåldersristningarnas innebörd (= Kungl. Vitterhets, Historie och Antikvitets Akademiens handlingar. 35, ZDB -ID 953008-3 ). Lagerström, Stockholm 1926–1927, (In German: Nordic rock drawings as religious documents. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1934).
• Sveriges fasta fornlämningar från hednatiden (= Föreningen Urds skrifter. 1, ZDB -ID 996199-9 ). Lindblad, Uppsala 1923.

literature

• Sune Lindqvist : Oscar Almgren in memoriam . In: Uppland. 1945, ISSN  0566-3059 , pp. 87-94
• Jürgen Kunow (Ed.): 100 years of fibula shapes according to Oscar Almgren (= research on archeology in the state of Brandenburg. 5). Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für Pre- und Frühgeschichte, Wünsdorf 1998, ISBN 3-910011-17-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Oscar Almgren in the catalog of the German National Library