Henrik Samuel Nyberg

Henrik Samuel Nyberg ( born December 28, 1889 in Söderbärke; † February 9, 1974 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish Orientalist, the va worked on issues of Iranian Studies, in particular for Middle Persian, and the pre-Islamic Iranian religion.

Life

Nyberg was born in 1889 as son of Ida Jansson and Anders Fredrik Nyberg, one plagued by financial worries cleric, who also took over Nyberg's first training until his thirteenth birthday. Instead of studying theology, like his father, he went to visit a grammar school in Uppsala and studied at the university there, among other things classical and Semitic languages ​​and Sanskrit. In Uppsala Nyberg has been a lecturer and professor in the Semitic, where in 1931 he took over the chair of his teacher Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen. In 1956 he became Professor Emeritus.

Among the students included Nyberg Geo Widengren, Helmer Ringgren, Stig Wikander, Sven Hartman, Bo Uta and Judith Josephson. From 1948 until his death in 1974 he was a member of Svenska academies. Also Kungliga och Vitterhets History Antikvitets Academies (since 1935) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (since 1943), he belonged to.

Writings (selection )

  • Auxiliary Book of Pahlavi. I. Texts and Index of Pehleviwörter. Glossary II. 2 volumes, Uppsala 1928-31
  • Iran forntida religioner. Stockholm in 1937; dt The religions of ancient Iran. Leipzig 1938; Reprint Osnabrück 1966
  • As editor: Minor writings of Ibn al -Arabi. After manuscripts in Upsala and Berlin ed for the first time. and provided with introduction and commentary. Leiden 1919.
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