The Most Famous
HISTORIANS from Sweden
This page contains a list of the greatest Swedish Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 561 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 3
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 58.21, Árni Magnússon is the most famous Swedish Historian. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Árni Magnússon (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈau(r)tnɪ ˈmaknusˌsɔn]; 13 November 1663 – 7 January 1730) was an Icelandic scholar and collector of manuscripts who assembled the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection.
2. Artur Hazelius (1833 - 1901)
With an HPI of 49.00, Artur Hazelius is the 2nd most famous Swedish Historian. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Artur Immanuel Hazelius (30 November 1833 – 27 May 1901) was a Swedish teacher, scholar, folklorist and museum director. He was the founder of both the Nordic Museum (Nordiska museet) and the Skansen open-air museum in Stockholm.
3. Horace Engdahl (b. 1948)
With an HPI of 45.01, Horace Engdahl is the 3rd most famous Swedish Historian. His biography has been translated into 16 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.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Swedish historians born between 1663 and 1948. Of these 3, 1 (33.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Swedish historians include Horace Engdahl. The most famous deceased Swedish historians include Árni Magnússon, and Artur Hazelius. As of April 2024, 1 new Swedish historians have been added to Pantheon including Artur Hazelius.
