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Greta Arwidsson was born on 5 July, 1906 in Uppsala, Sweden, is a Sweden's first female professor of archeology. Discover Greta Arwidsson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 92 years old?

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Occupation Archaeologist and academic
Age 92 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 5 July 1906
Birthday 5 July
Birthplace Uppsala, Sweden
Date of death 1998
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Nationality Sweden

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1714

Her father's line traced to a soldier who died in the Battle of Napue in 1714; her great-grandfather, Adolf Ivar Arwidsson, was a historian and intellectual, her grandfather, Thorsten Adolf Arwidsson (sv), a cartographer and naval officer, and her father, Ivar Arwidsson (sv), a zoologist.

Both parents worked at the Nordic Museum.

Her mother, Anna Arwidsson (née Jacobsson), recorded oral folk tradition, and during her travels around the country collected many items for the museum's collections.

Arwidsson's parents took her to public lectures as a child, including talks by Oscar Montelius and Gabriel Gustafson about the Viking Oseberg finds.

1906

Greta Arwidsson (5 July 1906 – 31 January 1998) was a Swedish archaeologist.

Greta Arwidsson was born on 5 July 1906, in Uppsala, Sweden.

1930

Matriculating at Uppsala University, she obtained a Master of Philosophy in 1930 with studies in Latin, geography and history, and designs of going on to teach.

While studying under Sune Lindqvist she began working on the Valsgärde excavations, however, and began investigating and publishing the boat graves found therein.

1936

While still in school, from 1936 until 1941 Arwidsson periodically served as an antiquarian at the Statens Historiska Museum, first in the Stone and Bronze Age department, and then in the Iron Age department.

1940

Alongside other work, she is known for her study of the Valsgärde graves, published from the 1940s until the 1970s.

1942

She obtained her Ph.D. in 1942, the same year that she published her first Valsgärde monograph, Valsgärde 6, with the dissertation ''Vendelstile: Email und Glas in 7.-8.

Jahrhundert''.

From 1942 until 1946, she was a lecturer in Scandinavian and Comparative Archaeology at Uppsala University, working at the Jämtland Museum during the summers of 1943 and 1944.

1956

Arwidsson became Sweden's first female professor of Scandinavian and Comparative Archaeology in 1956, when she took the post at Stockholm University.

1958

From 1958 until 1961 she also served as dean of the Faculty of Humanities and as a member of the college board.

1973

She taught in that role until 1973, when she became a professor emeritus.

In retirement Arwidsson published some of her earlier works.

1977

In 1977 she published Valsgärde 7, having previously published Valsgärde 8 in 1954, and from 1984 to 1989 edited a collection of articles on Birka, including 36 that she penned herself.

1998

Arwidsson died on 31 January 1998, and is buried in Uppsala old cemetery.

She neither married nor had children.