Axel Bagge

Axel Ivar Bagge (22 February 1894 – 12 February 1953) was a Swedish archaeologist, who made numerous contributions to the research of the Stone Age remains in Scandinavia.[1]

Axel Bagge

Bagge was born in Rimbo, Sweden, as the son of syssloman[lower-alpha 1] Ivar Bagge and Hilma, née Mattson. After initially studying experimental psychology under psychologist Sidney Alrutz at Uppsala University, Bagge switched his major to archaeology. He was hired by the Swedish History Museum in 1925, where he became second antiquarian in 1936 and first antiquarian in 1946.[1]

In the early 1930s, he investigated the Mesolithic remains in Blekinge, a Swedish province in the southern coast of Götaland, exhaustively with another archaeologist Knut Kjellmark.[3] After the Neolithic bog body known as the Luttra Woman was found in Falbygden near Luttra in 1943, Bagge was the first to report the discovery in 1947, in the academic journal Fornvännen.[4][5]

Bagge was the director of the Swedish History Museum's Stone and Bronze Age department until his death in 1953.[1]

References

Notes
  1. In Swedish and Finnish law, syssloman is a person entrusted with the management of a principal's financial or legal affairs.[2]

Citations
  1. Arbman, Holger [in Swedish] (1953). "Axel Bagge: in memoriam". Fornvännen. Journal of Swedish Antiquarian Research (in Swedish). Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. 48: 200–205. ISSN 0015-7813. Retrieved 7 October 2023 – via Swedish National Heritage Board.  This article incorporates text by Holger Arbman available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
  2. "SYSSLOMAN". Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish). Swedish Academy. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
  3. Larsson, Mats (2017). "3. Blekinge: New Discoveries". Life and Death in the Mesolithic of Sweden. Oxbow Books. pp. 41–48. ISBN 978-1-78570-385-0. JSTOR j.ctt1kw292r.7. Retrieved 7 October 2023 – via Google Books.
  4. Bagge, Axel (1947). "Ett märkligt skelettfynd från gånggriftstiden" [A remarkable skeletal find from the Middle Neolithic] (PDF). Fornvännen. Journal of Swedish Antiquarian Research (in Swedish). Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities: 248–249. ISSN 0015-7813. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 January 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2023 – via DiVA (open archive).
  5. Gunnarsson, Tim-Kristoffer (2020). "Hur vi tolkar ritual — om tolkningen av arkeologiskt material som ritualiserat" [How we interpret rituals — on the interpretation of archaeological materials as ritualised] (PDF) (in Swedish). Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg. p. 21. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 January 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2023 – via Gothenburg University Publications Electronic Archive. [...] Axel Bagge (1947), som var först med att rapportera om fyndet av den sedermera så kallade Hallonflickan, [...]
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