Henrik Samuel Nyberg

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Henrik Samuel (H.S.) Nyberg (28 December 1889 – 9 February 1974) was a Swedish scholar of broad interest and a well known expert of Iranology and Arab studies.^[1]

Life

Nyber was born in Söderbärke in Southern Dalecarlia (Sweden) on the 28th of December 1889. When he was 19, he entered Uppsala to undertake university courses. There he studied from Classical languages to Sanskrit and to the Semitic idioms. Nyberg setup the Middle Persian curriculum as a possible subject of study at the University of Uppsala and he felt the need for a teaching it by meeting Western scholarly standards. Nyberg’s single most important contribution to the study of Iranian religions is his Irans forntida religioner (1937b). Overall, Nyberg was a scholar of extremely broad interests, competent in a number of different fields, both in Semitic and Iranian studies.^[1]

He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1943, and of the Swedish Academy (on seat number 3) from 1947.

Works

Kitāb al-Intiṣār by al-Khayyāṭ
Frahang ī Pahlavīg (The Middle Iranian dictionary of ideograms)

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Carlo G. Cereti, "NYBERG, Henrik Samuel" in Encyclopaedia Iranica

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