Pehr Magnus Arvid Säve (19April 181110November 1887) was a Swedish teacher, cultural historian and artist. He was the initiator of the ''Gotlands Fornvänner'' society and

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Early life and education

Säve was born in

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the son of the provost there, Pehr Säve and his wife Hedvig Lallerius. Säve started out as a teacher in Visby 1835–57, and he soon became a pioneer for the Gotlandic cultural history.

Career

On the behalf of the

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he collected facts about Gotland's heritage, language, geography and culture. He was the academy's curator of antiquities on Gotland and in

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and

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. His notes are collected in six large volumes in

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. Notes made by Säve and his brother, Carl Säve, resulted in a

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dictionary (''Gotländsk ordbok'') was published in

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in 1936-45. He also gathered and wrote down Gotlandic traditional tales, which he called sagas. This comprehensive material included ''Strandens sagor'' (''Tales from the beach'') 1873, ''Åkerns sagor'' (''Tales from the field'') 1876 and ''Havets och fiskarens sagor'' (''Tales from the sea and the fisherman'') 1880. After his death, material from his notes and archive was included 1945 edition of ''Swedish folk tales'' and the 1949 edition of ''Swedish folk songs''. Säve was the initiator of the society ''Gotlands Fornvänner'' (the Friends of Gotland's Antiquity) and their Museum of Antiquities on Gotland, later renamed the

. He was also a pioneer in the field of

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. In 1877, he published a paper in which he propagated for a

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. That year he also received an honorary

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from

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. In 1882, he became an honorary member of the Swedish Heritage Society (''Svenska fornminnesföreningen'') and of the

in 1885. Säve died of

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in 1887. He is buried at the Eastern cemetery in Visby.

Legacy

A school in Visby, the Säve School (''Säveskolan'') is named after him. It is an equivalent of a

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, although that term is not used in Sweden.

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Save, Pehr Arvid Cultural historians 1811 births 1887 deaths 19th-century Swedish painters 19th-century male artists Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities Linguists from Sweden