RINGBOM, Lars-Ivar

RINGBOM, Lars-Ivar Edvin. Turku 23.7.1901 — Turku 21.5.1971. Finnish Art Historian interested in Iranian Mythology. Professor in Turku. Son of Lars Ivar Ringbom (1869–1937), a physician, and Elin Elisabeth Granit. Educated at Classic Lyceum of Turku, also art studies in Dresden 1920-22. Studies at Helsinki (M.A. 1925, under J. J.…

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STRZYGOWSKI, Josef

STRZYGOWSKI, Josef. Biala, Austrian Silesia (now Bielsko-Biała in Poland) 7.3.1862 — Vienna 2.1.1941. Austrian Art Historian. Professor in Vienna. Son of a cloth manufacturer, and his wife Edle Trass von Friedenfelt, of minor nobility. In 1880 took apprenticeship in a weaving plant, but later abandoned this career. From 1882 studies…

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HARTMAN, Sven Samuel

HARTMAN, Sven Samuel. Högbo, Gävleborgs län 22.6.1917 — Balma (Haute-Garonne), France 2.4.1988. Swedish Scholar of Comparative Religion. Professor in Åbo (Turku) and Lund. Son of Lieutenant-Colonel Carl August Hartman (1881–1959) and Anna Victoria Karlsson, both of The Salvation Army. Matriculation from Stockholm in 1937, studies at Uppsala (M.A. 1944, M.Th.…

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