Dag Strömbäck

Dag Alvar Strömbäck (13 August 1900 – 1 December 1978) was a Swedish philologist and ethnologist who was a professor at Uppsala University and a specialist in Old Norse studies.

Dag Strömbäck
Born	13 August 1900 Järbo församling, Sweden
Died	1 December 1978 (aged 78) Helga Trefaldighets församling, Sweden
Nationality	Swedish
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Academic work
Discipline	Ethnology Philology
Sub-discipline	Old Norse studies
Institutions	Uppsala University
Main interests	Old Norse literature Old Norse religion

Biography

Dag Strömbäck was born in Järbo församling, Sweden on 13 August 1900. He completed his studentexamen at Norra Latin in Stockholm, and subsequently studied at Uppsala University. At Uppsala, Strömbäck completed his B.A. in 1921, and his Ph.D. in 1935. Since 1941 he was a docent in Nordic languages at Uppsala. He also a docent in Icelandic philology at Lund University since 1935, and a visiting professor at the University of Chicago from 1937 to 1939. From 1940 to 1967 he was a senior official at the Institutet för språk och folkminnen. From 1948 to 1967, Strömbäck was Professor of Nordic and Comparative Ethnology at Uppsala University.

Strömbäck specialized in the study of Old Norse literature from a philological and ethnological perspective. He was a member of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.

Strömbäck retired from Uppsala University in 1977. He died in Helga Trefaldighets församling, Sweden on 1 December 1978.

Selected works

• Sejd, 1935
• Leading Folklorists of the North, 1971
• The Conversion of Iceland, 1975

See also

• Lily Weiser-Aall
• Otto Höfler
• Neil Price (archaeologist)

Sources

• Bo Almqvist: Dag Alvar Strömbäck i Svenskt biografiskt lexikon