Peter Vilhelm Glob (20 February 1911 – 20 July 1985), also known as P. V. Glob, was a

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archaeologist. Glob was most noted for his investigations of Denmark's

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such as the

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and

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, mummified remains of

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and

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people found preserved within peat bogs. His anthropological works include '' The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved'', ''Denmark: An Archaeological History from the Stone Age to the Vikings'', and ''Mound People: Danish Bronze-Age Man Preserved''.

Biography

Glob was a student of archeology at the

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. He published his dissertation and was awarded his PhD in 1944. He worked for the

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from 1937 to 1949, then as a professor at Aarhus University from 1949 until 1960, and then as Director General of Museums and Antiquities for the state of Denmark (''Riksantikvaren'') from 1960 to 1981. He was co-founder of the Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism, an institution which studied the history of graffiti. His most famous investigation was that of the

. Glob was also heavily engaged in archaeology of the

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and led several scientific expeditions there. In the 1950s he discovered and excavated the ruins of the ancient

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civilization on the island country of

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. In 1954 he and his team uncovered the Barbar Temple, considered to be part of the Dilmun culture.

Personal life

Peter Glob was born at Kalundborg on the Danish island of

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, the son of the Danish painter Johannes Glob (1882–1955). He later married to Harriet Roepstorff and they had five children, including the ceramic artist

Lotte Glob Lotte Glob (born 1944) is a Danish ceramic artist living in the north of Scotland. She is daughter of Peter Glob. Life Lotte Glob was born in 1944 on Samsø, a Danish island, the daughter of Peter Glob, a Danish archaeologist. She grew up in Aar ...

. He died at

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in 1985.

Select bibliography

*''Mosefolket – Jernalderens mennesker bevaret i 2000 år'', Gyldendal, 1965 *''The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved'', translated from the Danish by

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. Faber and Faber, 1969, 304 pg. (

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, 2004). *''Denmark: An Archaeological History from the Stone Age to the Vikings'', Cornell University Press, 1971, 351 pg, *''Danish Prehistoric Monuments'', Faber and Faber, 1971, 351, (The two previous book editions derive from the same original book written in Danish: ''Danske Oltidsminder,'' best translated as ''Memorials of Ancient Denmark''. See American Anthropologist, Volume 75, Issue 6, page 1940.) *''Mound People: Danish Bronze-Age Man Preserved'', Cornell University Press, 1974, 184 pg, *''Danefæ. Til Hendes Majestaet Dronning Margrethe II'', 16 April 1980.

References

Other sources

*Højlund, Flemming (1999)
''Glob and the Garden of Eden: the Danish expeditions to the Arabian Gulf
' (Moesgård Museum, trans. Peter Crabb) *Bibby, Geoffrey (1969) ''Looking for Dilmun'' (Alfred A. Knopf) *Fischer, Christian (2007) ''Tollundmanden: gaven til guderne: mosefund fra Danmarks forhistorie'' (Silkeborg: Silkeborg Museum) 1911 births 1985 deaths People from Kalundborg Danish archaeologists 20th-century archaeologists University of Copenhagen alumni Aarhus University faculty {{Denmark-scientist-stub