Eric Oxenstierna

Eric Carl Gabriel Oxenstierna was born in Stockholm on 20 September 1916.[1][2] He was the son of prominent vicar Count B. G. Oxenstierna, and Borghild Kamph. Oxenstierna received his elementary education at Nya Elementar in Stockholm. He received his first PhD at the University of Berlin, and then a second PhD at Uppsala University. Oxenstierna subsequently published a number of influential works on archaeology.[3]

Oxenstierna died in Göttingen, Germany on 22 February 1968. He was survived by his mother, wife, and two children.[1]

Oxenstierna was married to Edith Drabsch-D'Amara, with whom he had a son Gyrder and a daughter Gabriella.[1] He lived in Lidingö, Stockholm.[2]

• Die Urheimat der Goten. Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig; Hugo Gerbers, Stockholm; 1948.
• Die Goldhörner von Gallehus. Eric Oxenstierna, Lidingo, 1956.
• The Norsemen, New York Graphic Society Publishers, 1956. (Translated and edited by Catherine Hutter)
• Scandinavia. Viking Press, New York, 1963. (Edited by Martin Huerlimann)
• The World of the Norsemen. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1967. (Translated by Janet Sondheimer)

• Birger Nerman