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Henrik Samuel Nyberg

Swedish academic (1889–1974)

Summary

Swedish academic (1889–1974)

Field	Value
image	Hs nyberg.jpg
caption	H.S. Nyberg in 1948
birth_date
birth_place	Dalecarlia, Sweden
death_date
death_place	Uppsala, Sweden
alma_mater	Uppsala University
occupation	Professor of Semitic languages at Uppsala University
spouse	{{plainlist
* {{marriage	Fanny Helena Maria Hasselberg	1920	1947	reason	died}}
* {{marriage	Ingegerd Maria Duske	1950	1953	reason	died}}
children	Ingegerd Fries
Sigrid Kahle
module	{{Infobox officeholder	embed=yes
office	Member of the Swedish Academy
(Seat No. 3)
termstart	20 December 1948
termend	9 February 1974
predecessor	Henrik Schück
successor	Carl Ivar Ståhle

Sigrid Kahle (Seat No. 3)

Henrik Samuel (H.S.) Nyberg (28 December 1889 – 9 February 1974) was a Swedish scholar of broad interest and a well known expert of Iranology and Arab studies.

Life

Nyberg was born in Söderbärke in Southern Dalecarlia (Sweden) on 28 December 1889. When he was 19, he moved to Uppsala to undertake university courses. There, he studied from Classical languages to Sanskrit and to the Semitic idioms. Nyberg set up the Middle Persian curriculum as a possible subject of study at the University of Uppsala and he felt the need for teaching it by meeting Western scholarly standards. Nyberg’s single most important contribution to the study of Iranian religions is his Irans forntida religioner (1937). Overall, Nyberg was a scholar of extremely broad interests, competent in a number of different fields, both in Semitic and Iranian studies. He taught at the Fjellstedt School and Uppsala University.

He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1943, and of the Swedish Academy (on seat number 3) from 1948.

Nyberg had many distinguished students in Iranian Studies, among them Geo Widengren, Stig Wikander, Sven S. Hartman, and Bo Utas. His daughters were the language scholar (Icelandic) and translator Ingegerd Fries and journalist, travel author and Orientalist Sigrid Kahle. Kahle married John Kahle, a West German diplomat and son of Paul Kahle, while Fries married Sigurd Fries, great-grandson of renowned Swedish mycologist Elias Fries.

Works

Kitāb al-Intiṣār by al-Khayyāṭ
Frahang ī Pahlavīg (The Middle Iranian dictionary of ideograms)

References

[http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/nyberg-henrik-samuel Carlo G. Cereti, "NYBERG, Henrik Samuel" in Encyclopaedia Iranica]
Toll, Christopher. "Henrik (H S) S Nyberg".
. ["Nyberg, Henrik"](https://www.svenskaakademien.se/svenska-akademien/ledamotsregister/nyberg-henrik). *Swedish Academy*.

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