Martin P. Nilsson

Martin Persson Nilsson ( born July 12, 1874 in Stoby, Kristianstad Lan, Sweden, † April 7, 1967 in Lund ) was a Swedish classical scholar and historian of religion.

Life

Nilsson was from 1900 professor 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 language, Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Lund. His researches were almost all fields of classical antiquity, particularly of Greek religion. Also in anthropology he has done important, as in folklore, especially the Swedish.

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

His most famous work is the history of Greek religion in the Handbook of Classical Studies, which went through several editions. For the textbook of the history of religion Chantepie de la Saussaye he delivered the contribution of the Greeks.

Writings

  • Studia de Dionysiis Atticis. Lund 1900 digitized
  • Greek festivals of religious significance with the exclusion of the Attic. Teubner, Leipzig 1906 digitized. Reprint Teubner, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-519-07254-8
  • Amphoriques timbres de Lindos. Luno, Copenhagen 1909
  • Primitive religion. . Lund 1908 German: Primitive Religion. Mohr, Tübingen 1911
  • The popular festivals of the year. Tübingen 1914 digitized. Swedish: Årets folk league stronger. Stockholm 1915
  • Daimon. Gudemagter above psykologi hos Homer. Copenhagen 1918 ( Danish)
  • Olympen: en av framställning the klassika mytologien. Encoder, 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 digitized
  • The romerska kejsartiden. . Norstedt, Stockholm 1921 Engl translation: Imperial Rome. Bell, London 1926
  • The Grekiska religionens historia. . Stockholm 1921 German: history of Greek religion as: Handbook of Classical Studies Dept. 5 Part 2 Vol 1 & 2 Beck, Munich. 3, durchgesehene and supplemented edition 1967
  • Rasblandningarnas omfång och betydelse i det romerska kejsarriket. Stockholm 1923
  • The Minoan - Mycenaean religion and its survival in Greek religion. Acta Societatis Regiae Humaniorum Litterarum Lundensis 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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