Wendela Beata Losman (née Hammarskjöld, b. 27 November 1938) is a Swedish historian and archivist.

Biography

Beata Hammarskjöld, later Losman through marriage, was born 27 November 1938 in

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...

. She is the daughter of the physician Sven Hammarskjöld and the librarian Birgit Lundberg. She received a master's degree in

Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...

in 1961, a licentiate in history in Gothenburg in 1965, and a doctoral degree at the

University of Gothenburg The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 st ...

in 1970. Losman was employed at the Regional Archives in Gothenburg in 1962. She became senior archivist in 1972 and held a research position at the Humanities-Social Sciences Research Council in 1981–1985. She was acting Regional Archives during Gösta Lexts's illness 1975–1977, and became its head in 1987. She was chairman of the Foundation for Women's History Archive in Gothenburg and Lund from 1970, member of the board of the Forum for female researchers and women's research in Gothenburg from 1970, and treasurer there 1979–1986. In 1995, she competed with Anita Göransson for the professorship in women's history at the University of Gothenburg.Mattisson, Karin (17 February 1995). ”Hon kan bli professor på ny institution”. Göteborgs-Posten: p. 7.

Selected works

*''Norden och reformkonsilierna 1408–1449'' (akademisk avhandling, 1970) *''Kamp för ett nytt kvinnoliv'' (1980) *''Margareta Hvitfeldt. En biografi'' (1984) *''Kvinnor, män och barn på 1800-talets svenska landsbygd'' (1986) *''Kvinnoröster ur arkiven'' (1993) *''Från Eddan till Ellen Key: texter om och av kvinnor från medeltiden till 1900'' (1993) *''–inte bara Göteborg: dokument ur de införlivade kommunernas historia'' (1996) *''Från vårdarinneutbildning till hälsohögskola'' (2000)

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Bibliography

* "Losman, Beata W", in: ''Vem är hon: kvinnor i Sverige: biografisk uppslagsbok'' (1988), * Nordby, Peter; Lönnroth, Louise (2012), ''Landsarkivet i Göteborg 1911-2011 : byggnader, människor och handlingar'', Landsarkivet i Göteborg, {{DEFAULTSORT:Losman, Beata 1938 births Living people Swedish archivists Swedish non-fiction writers Swedish women non-fiction writers 20th-century Swedish writers 20th-century Swedish women writers 21st-century Swedish writers 21st-century Swedish women writers People from Malmö University of Gothenburg alumni