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.Lucian Boia (ed.), ''Great Historians of the Modern Age: An International Dictionary'' (New York, Westport and London, 1991), pp. 694-5. He was born in Höganäs in 1900, and studied under

Lauritz Weibull Lauritz Ulrik Absalon Weibull (2 April 1873 – 2 December 1960) was a Swedish professor and historian. Biography He was born in Lund, Sweden, as the son of history professor Martin Weibull and the brother of historian Curt Weibull. He enroll ...

. In 1938 he became Professor of History at

Lund University , motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , budget = SEK 9 billion Lund Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...

in 1962.

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1900 births 1962 deaths Academic staff of Lund University 20th-century Swedish historians {{Sweden-historian-stub