Olof August Danielsson (born 15 October 1852 in the District Hamari parish, Östergötland County; died 10 July 1933) was a

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linguist and classical philologist. Olof August Danielsson was born to Daniel Danielsson, a shoemaker, and Anna Brita Olofsdotter. In 1870 Danielsson began his studies in

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. In 1879 he was Associate Professor of Classical Languages at the University in Uppsala, and was professor of comparative linguistics (1883-1884) and Greek language and literature (1884-1891). He was appointed professor of classical languages at Göteborg University, although he never took up the appointment, becoming professor of Greek language and literature at

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instead. Danielsson was elected as a member of the Academy of Letters in 1901 and the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1905. Danielsson was unmarried. Danielson was a leading Etruscologist and resided at various times in

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to examine and copy Etruscan inscriptions. Together with Carl Pauli he launched the

Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum The ''Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum'' (Body of Etruscan inscriptions) is a corpus of Etruscan texts, collected bCarl Pauliand his followers since 1885. After the death of Olof August Danielsson in 1933, this collection was passed on to the Upps ...

, which began to appear in 1893.

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