Oscar Almgren

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

Life

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

Almgren directed many excavations, including that of the grave mound of Haga, the later King Gustav VI. Adolf was one of his students.

Writings

• Studies of northern European fibula forms the first centuries AD. Stockholm 1897. 2, erg edition Leipzig 1923. Reprint Bonn 1973.
• Kung och andra Bjorn hög fornlämningar vid på Haga föranstaltande af Prins Gustav Adolf undersökta 1902-03. Stockholm 1905.
• On the significance of the Marcomanni Empire. Mannus 1913.
• The Early Iron Age Gotland: presented by the Statens Historiska kept in Museum, Stockholm finds and excavation reports. Birger Nerman with. Stockholm 1914. 2nd edition 1923.
• Svenska folkets äldsta desolate: ett par inledningskapitel till vår historia. Uppsala 1920.
• Hällristningar och kultbruk: bidrag till belysning av de nordiska bronsåldersristningarnas innebörd. Stockholm 1926-27.
• Nordic petroglyphs as religious documents. Frankfurt am Main, 1934.
• Sveriges fasta fornlämningar från hednatiden. Uppsala 1934.