The Most Famous
HISTORIANS from Sweden
This page contains a list of the greatest Swedish Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 339 Historians, 2 of which were born in Sweden. This makes Sweden the birth place of the 31st most number of Historians behind Denmark and Algeria.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Swedish Historians of all time. This list of famous Swedish Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Árni Magnússon (1663 - 1730)
With an HPI of 56.35, Árni Magnússon is the most famous Swedish Historian. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Árni Magnússon (13 November 1663 – 7 January 1730) was an Icelandic scholar and collector of manuscripts who assembled the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection.
2. Horace Engdahl (1948 - )
With an HPI of 42.98, Horace Engdahl is the 2nd most famous Swedish Historian. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl (born 30 December 1948) is a Swedish literary historian and critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997. He was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy from 1999 to June 2009, when he was succeeded by Swedish author and historian Peter Englund.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as historians born between 1663 and 1948. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living historians include Horace Engdahl. The most famous deceased historians include Árni Magnússon. As of April 2022, 1 new historians have been added to Pantheon including Horace Engdahl.
