Count Eric Carl Gabriel Oxenstierna (20 September 1916 - 22 February 1968)
was a Swedish historian and archaeologist.
Biography
Eric Carl Gabriel Oxenstierna was born in
Stockholm
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on 20 September 1916.
He was the son of prominent
vicar
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Count B. G. Oxenstierna, and Borghild Kamph. Oxenstierna received his elementary education at
Nya Elementar in Stockholm. He received his first
PhD
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at the
University of Berlin
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The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...
, and then a second PhD at
Uppsala University
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Initially fou ...
. Oxenstierna subsequently published a number of influential works on archaeology, particularly regarding the Roman Iron Age of Sweden.
His academic career was however cut short because of his enthusiasm for
Nazi Germany
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, where he worked and taught during the
Second World War
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.
[Alkarp, M. 2009. ''Det Gamla Uppsala : berättelser & metamorfoser kring en alldeles särskild plats''. ]Uppsala University
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Initially fou ...
. Oxenstierna died in
Göttingen
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, Germany on 22 February 1968.
Personal life
Oxenstierna was married to Edith Drabsch-D'Amara, with whom he had a son Gyrder and a daughter Gabriella.
He lived for long periods in
Lidingö
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, Stockholm.
Selected works
* ''Die Urheimat der Goten''. Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig; Hugo Gerbers, Stockholm; 1948.
* ''Die Goldhörner von Gallehus''. Eric Oxenstierna, Lidingo, 1956.
* ''The Norsemen'', New York Graphic Society Publishers, 1956. (Translated and edited by Catherine Hutter)
* ''Scandinavia''. Viking Press, New York, 1963. (Edited by Martin Huerlimann)
* ''The World of the Norsemen''.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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History
George Weidenfeld ...
, London, 1967. (Translated by Janet Sondheimer)
See also
*
Birger Nerman
Birger Nerman (6 October 188822 August 1971) was a Swedish archaeologist, historian and philologist who specialized in the history and culture of Iron Age Sweden.
Nerman was educated at Uppsala University, where he began his career as a lecture ...
References
1916 births
1968 deaths
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
20th-century Swedish historians
Swedish non-fiction writers
Uppsala University alumni
Eric
The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, Eirik, or Eiríkur is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization).
The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-N ...
20th-century Swedish archaeologists
20th-century non-fiction writers
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