Carl-Gustaf Yngve Styrenius (17 June 1929 – 12 January 2023) was a Swedish

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Biography

Carl-Gustaf Styrenius was born in

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on 17 June 1929. He studied at

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degree in 1954 and a Lic. degree in philosophy in 1961. He was a teaching assistant at the Classical Department from 1950 to 1954 and at the university's Antiquities Museum in 1956–1959. In 1967, he received his

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degree after defending his

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. He was appointed

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in classical antiquities and ancient history in Lund the same year. In 1963, he was appointed acting director of the

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. He was director of the Institute from 1967 to 1970, as well as

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at the

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in Athens from 1963 to 1970. He participated in

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s at

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in Syria in 1961, in

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in 1970–1974 and in

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from 1969 to 1990 (both in Greece) and in

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in Tunisia in from 1979 to 1983. Styrenius became acting

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at Lund University in 1971. The same year, he was appointed Director of the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm, a position he held until 1989. Styrenius was given the title of professor in 1994. He was chairman of the Swedish-Tunisian Association in 1972–1975, became secretary of the board of the Swedish Institute at Athens in 1986, was secretary of the Friends of the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities in 1971–1989 (and then was a board member until 1999), board member of the

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in 1978–1982, board member of the Swedish-Greek Society 1984–1997 and board member of the Friends of the Swedish Istanbul Institute from 1989, where he also became secretary in 1994. In 1983 he became a corresponding member of the

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. Styrenius died in

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on 12 January 2023, at the age of 93.Obituary
in ''

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''.

References

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