Stig Strömholm

Stig Strömholm ( born September 16, 1931 in the ground) is a Swedish lawyer and university professor, who has become known as a writer.

Life

Raised in Uppsala Strömholm studied from 1952 at the Universities of Uppsala and Cambridge Law ( He graduates in 1959 ) and a doctorate as a fellow of the Humboldt Foundation in Munich in 1964 a doctorate in law. He was since 1969 a professor of law at the University of Uppsala and 1989-1997 Rector of this University. Strömholm also worked as a critic in the arts section of the Svenska Dagbladet and as a writer. He has published historical novels, essays and short stories.

Awards

In 1990 he was honored as a foreigner with the Finnish award academic science ( Tieteen akateemikko ). At his retirement in 1997, a Festschrift was published. Strömholm has received the Order Pour le Mérite ( Peace Class ) and the Gunnerus Medal of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences. Since 1989 he is part of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and was from 1985 to 1993 Chairman of the Kungliga och Vitterhets History Antikvitets academies. In 2004 he was awarded the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea. In 2012 he was awarded by the Swedish king of the Seraphinenorden.

Publications

Law

• The publication rights of the author in comparative law perspective, Stockholm, Almquist och Wiksell, 1964
• Short History of Western Legal Philosophy. 1991, ISBN 3-525-03159-9
• Copyright and the Conflict of Laws - A Comparative Survey, Heymann, 2009

Novels

• The valley, Stuttgart, Klett- Cotta, 1980
• Fields, Stuttgart, Klett- Cotta, 1986
• The forest, Stuttgart, Klett- Cotta, 1987