Erland Nordenskiöld

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Erland Nordenskiöld
Erland Nordenskiöld
Born	19 July 1877 Stockholm
Died	1932
Nationality	Sweden
Fields	archeology
Notable awards	Loubat Prize

Baron Nils Erland Herbert Nordenskiöld (1877–1932) was a Swedish archeologist and anthropologist. Nordenskiöld's research focused on the ethnography and prehistory of South America.

Biography

He was born in Stockholm, the son of N. A. E. Nordenskiöld. He was educated at Uppsala, was connected with the Museum of Natural History at Stockholm (1906–08), and became director of the ethnographic division of the Göteborg Museum (1913). He made journeys of discovery in Patagonia (1899), in Argentina and Bolivia (1901–02), in Peru and Bolivia (1904–05), in Bolivia (1908–09), and in 1913 in the interior of South America.^[1] From these journeys he brought home large collections to Gothenburg where he was head of the Ethnographical Museum.

In 1912 he was awarded the Loubat Prize and the Wahlberg gold medal.

Works

Besides numerous articles in scientific periodicals Nordenskiöld published:

Från högfjäll och urskogar (1902)
Indianlif i El Gran Chaco (1910; German translation, 1912)
Indianer och hvita (1911)
Sydamerikas indianer (1912)

Notes

↑ New International Encyclopedia

References

Eighty years after Erland Nordenskiöld: The question of the eastern frontier of the Inca Empire in Bolivia

External links

"Nordenskiöld, Nils Erland Herbert". Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 14894664 LCCN: n91051740 ISNI: 0000 0001 0797 288X GND: 11912596X SUDOC: 056743432 BNF: cb12685287s

Persondata
Name	Nordenskiold, Erland
Alternative names
Short description	Finnish-Swedish archeologist and anthropologist
Date of birth	19 July 1877
Place of birth	Stockholm
Date of death	1932
Place of death

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