Sune Lindqvist (20 March 1887 – 23 March 1976) was a Swedish

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and scholar. He worked at the

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, where he was responsible for the finds from the boat graves at

Valsgärde Valsgärde or Vallsgärde is a farm on the Fyris river, about three kilometres north of Gamla Uppsala, the ancient centre of the Swedish kings and of the pagan faith in Sweden. The present farm dates from the 16th century. The farm's notability ...

, and later at

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, where he wrote two major works alongside several hundred other publications.

Early life and education

Sune Lindqvist was born on 20 March 1887 in

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, to Carl Axel Lindqvist and Eva Mathilda Hermannia Brambeck. He was fatherless from an early age, and was raised with three older siblings by his mother. He studied Nordic languages, geology and mineralogy under

Knut Stjerna Knut Martin Stjerna (14 March 1874 – 15 November 1909) was a Swedish archaeologist and scholar, notable for a number of papers analyzing Beowulf from an archaeological perspective. He was a lecturer at Uppsala University, where he taught, among ...

and

Oscar Almgren Oscar Almgren (9 November 1869 – 13 May 1945) was a Swedish archaeologist specializing in prehistoric archaeology. He published a dissertation on Nordic types of brooches in 1897. He was also the father of Bertil Almgren, who followed in his fat ...

Career

Lindqvist worked at the

for eighteen years, starting as an artist and researcher. He later became a departmental head, and was responsible for the study of material found in the boat graves at

, including their restoration. In 1927 he became a professor of Scandinavian and Comparative Archaeology at

, taking over a position vacated by

two years previously. Almgren was the first person to have held the post, having taken it in 1913, but increasing blindness in his 50s required him to give it up. Lindqvist would in turn teach Almgren's son

Bertil Almgren Bertil Almgren (27 September 1918 – 4 March 2011) was a Swedish archaeologist and the son of Oscar Almgren, the country's first archaeology professor. Following Sune Lindqvist, he was a professor at Uppsala University from 1965 to 1984. Early ...

, one of Lindqvist's many students, and in 1965 Bertil Almgren would take over the position.

Personal life

Lindqvist died three days past his birthday, on 23 March 1976.

Publications

In addition to two major works, ''Uppsala högar och Ottarshögen'' and ''Gotlands Bildsteine'', Lindqvist published more than 200 articles, notes, and reviews between 1909 and 1971. * * * * * * *

References

Bibliography

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindqvist, Sune Swedish archaeologists 1887 births 1976 deaths 20th-century archaeologists Members of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala