Agnes Birgitta Odén-Dunér (11 August 1921 – 5 May 2016) was a

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historian. She was the first woman to hold a professorship at

Lund University , motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , budget = SEK 9 billion history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

professor in

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. She was a member of several local and international literal and historical academies such as the

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; The Science Society in Lund (honorary); the

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; the

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; the

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from 1977; and the

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Life

Birgitta Oden was born on 11 August 1921 in

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. She was the daughter of Professor Sven Odén and Agnes Bergman, and the sister of

Svante Odén Svante Odén (29 April 1924 – disappeared July 1986) was a Swedish soil scientist, meteorologist, and chemist. Often referred to as the father of acid rain research, Odén was the professor of soil science and eco chemistry at the Swedish Uni ...

. Odén received a Master of Philosophy in 1944, a Licentiate in 1947 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Lund in 1955. She was the professor of history at Lund University from 1965 to 1987. At the time of her appointment, she was both Sweden's first female professor of history and the first ever female professor at Lund University. ( Carin Boalt had been appointed as a professor at LTH the year before, which at the time was still an independent university.)Eva Österberg, "Birgitta Odén", ''Kungl Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademiens årsbok'' 2017, p. 25–36. Birgitta Odén wrote her dissertation on Swedish 16th century fiscal policy. She later worked on environmental history and social history. In 1998 she received the Gerontology Prize, which is awarded by the Nordic Gerontological Society, and in 2005 she received the Great Gerontology Prize, which is awarded by the Swedish Gerontological Society. In 1953, she married Major Uno Dunér (1886–1983), son of the bank director Fritiof Dunér and Charlotta Helena Sjöberg. Together, they had a son Mårten Dunér (born 1956), an architect. Birgitta Oden died on 5 May 2016 in

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. She is buried at the cemetery in

Hanaskog Hanaskog is a locality situated in Östra Göinge Municipality, Scania County Scania, also known by its native name of Skåne (, ), is the southernmost of the historical provinces (''landskap'') of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geogr ...

, Sweden.

Honors

* 1990 Member of the

* 1999 Honorary doctorate of theology at

Lund University , motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , budget = SEK 9 billion * 2005 Gerontologipriset

Bibliography

* Lövkvist, Linda (2018). ''

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'', (In

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A Survey of Numismatic Research 1960–1965: Modern numismatics including medals
edited by N. L. Ludvig, L. O. Lagerqvist, and C. Svarstad'' (in French). International Numismatic Commission. 1967. * Eva Österberg, "Birgitta Odén", ''Kungl Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademiens årsbok'' 2017, p. 25–36.

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