Johannes Brøndsted
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Johannes Brøndsted, (born 1890 in Jutland and died in 1965) was a Danish archaeologist and prehistorian.
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[edit] Education
In 1920, he received his doctorate for his work on the relations between Anglo-Saxon and Nordic art in Viking times.
[edit] Field work
In 1922 and 1922, he worked in the field with E. Dyggve, and excavated early Christian monuments in Dalmatia. His account of this excavation was published as Recherches à Salone (1928).
[edit] Positions
From 1941 through 1951, Brøndsted was a professor of Nordic archeology and European prehistory at the University of Copenhagen. He left this position to become the director of the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, a position he held from 1951 through 1960.
[edit] Major published works
- Recherches à Salone (1928)
- Danmarks Oldtid (three vols.; 2e; 1957-1959), a prehistory of Denmark
- The Vikings (1960) (English edition: trans. Kalle Skov; Penguin, Harmondsworth; 1965; ISBN 0140204598)
[edit] Recognition and distinctions
- 1952, Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
- 1953, gold medal of the Royal Society of Antiquities
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