University

Lund University

Lund, Sweden

University in Lund. 7 people in the register connected with it.

The Cypriot collection

Its Cyprus role was academic: Gjerstad's chair, the school of Gjerstad's students (P. and L. Åström), specialist study of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition's skeletal and animal material, and a university archive holding Gjerstad's correspondence.

Meyers 1997, p. 928 Gjerstad et al. 1934

History

1931–1934
Professor Wallengren of Lund, with Professor Palmgren of Stockholm, examined the animal bones from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition's excavations (acknowledged in SCE I, 1934).
Professor Wallengren Gjerstad et al. 1934
1932–1933
Martin P. Nilsson (Lund) published a paper on a Cypro-Mycenaean vase scene in the Bulletin de la Société Royale des Lettres de Lund 1932-33, pp. 29 ff., cited by Gjerstad in SCE I. Nilsson also sat on the Swedish Cyprus Committee.
Martin Persson Nilsson Gjerstad et al. 1934, p. 543
1933
Professor Carl M. Fürst of Lund examined the Swedish Cyprus Expedition's skeletal material and published the results as Zur Kenntnis der Anthropologie der prähistorischen Bevölkerung der Insel Cypern (Lund 1933, Lunds Universitets Årsskrift N.F. Avd. 2, 29 no. 6). Dikaios later cites it for Sotira.
Carl M. Fürst Gjerstad et al. 1934 Dikaios 1961
1940
Einar Gjerstad became professor of classical archaeology at Lund (1940-1957), then research professor (1957-1972), after the Swedish Institute in Rome directorship (1935-40). OEANE counts 25 years (1923-1948) of his career as devoted mostly to Cypriot archaeology.
LundEinar Nilson Gjerstad Meyers 1997, p. 928
1946–1961
Lund University's archive holds letters of Gjerstad's correspondents on Cyprus: J. R. Stewart to Gjerstad (29 Nov 1946; 28 Jan 1960) and Dikaios to Gjerstad (27 and 30 June 1961), cited by Powell.
James Rivers Barrington Stewart Porphyrios Dikaios Einar Nilson Gjerstad Powell 2013, pp. 294
c. 1950 – 18 May 1967
Lena Åström studied under Gjerstad at Lund from the early 1950s; Gjerstad proposed the Late Cypriote gold and silver for her licentiate, which grew into a doctoral thesis on all Late Cypriote non-pottery material, Studies on the Arts and Crafts of the Late Cypriote Bronze Age (Lund 1967), defended 18 May 1967 with Dikaios as opponent.
LundLena Söderhjelm Porphyrios Dikaios Einar Nilson Gjerstad Söderhjelm 1994, pp. 59

People

7 people

Staff and members · 7

Professor Wallengrenother (1931–1934) · ProfessorGjerstad et al. 19341931
Carl M. Fürstother (1933–1934) · professorGjerstad et al. 19341933
Einar Nilson Gjerstadother (1940–1972) · professor of classical archaeology 1940-1957; research professor 1957-1972 · worked for itMeyers 1997, p. 9281940–1972
Carl-Herman Hjortsjöother (1947–1959) · professor (as 'Professor Hjortsjö'); his 1947 and 1959 papers appear in Lund seriesBenson 1972 Dikaios 19531947
Lena Söderhjelmstudent (c. 1950–1967) · student of classical archaeology under Gjerstad; licentiate and doctoral thesisSöderhjelm 1994, pp. 591950
Paul Åströmother (c. 1951–c. 1967) · docent from 1957; associate chair, Institute for Ancient Cultures and Civilisations; director of the Antiquities MuseumBietak 2009, p. 171951
Martin Persson NilssonotherGjerstad et al. 1934, p. 543

Sources

1.E. Gjerstad, J. Lindros, E. Sjöqvist, A. Westholm (1934). The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927-1931, Vol. I (text). Stockholm, The Swedish Cyprus Expedition.
2.Eric M. Meyers (ed.) (1997). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. New York, Oxford University Press.
3.Lena Söderhjelm (1994). “Doing Thesis Work for the Expedition: A Review of the Cypriote Period of my Life”. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: The Living Past, 59-62. Stockholm, Medelhavsmuseet. Online
4.Manfred Bietak (2009). “Obituary: Paul Åström”. Ägypten und Levante / Egypt and the Levant 19, 16-18.
5.Matthias Recke (2012). “Deutschland und das antike Zypern. Beiträge zur Geschichte einer archäologischen Disziplin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42.
6.Judy Powell (2013). Love's Obsession: The Lives and Archaeology of Jim and Eve Stewart. Kent Town, South Australia, Wakefield Press.
7.P. Dikaios (1961). Sotira. Philadelphia, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
8.J. L. Benson (1972). Bamboula at Kourion: The Necropolis and the Finds Excavated by J. F. Daniel. Philadelphia, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
9.P. Dikaios (1953). Khirokitia: Final Report on the Excavation of a Neolithic Settlement in Cyprus on Behalf of the Department of Antiquities, 1936-1946. Oxford, Oxford University Press.