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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
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on 20 September 1916. He was the son of prominent
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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
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at the
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, and then a second PhD at
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. 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
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, where he worked and taught during the
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.Alkarp, M. 2009. ''Det Gamla Uppsala : berättelser & metamorfoser kring en alldeles särskild plats''.
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. Oxenstierna died in
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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
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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''.
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, 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 Swedish archaeologists 20th-century Swedish historians Swedish non-fiction writers Uppsala University alumni
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