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 Finnish-Swedish archeologist and anthropologist. He was born in Stockholm, the son of N. A. E. Nordenskiöld. Nordenskiöld's research focused on the ethnography and prehistory of South America.

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. New International Encyclopedia From these journeys he brought home large collections for the museums in Stockholm. 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)

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

References

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

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Name	Nordenskiold, Erland
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Date of birth	19 July 1877
Place of birth	Stockholm
Date of death	1932
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