Ewald Theodor Alfred Bosse (4 April 1880 – 22 September 1956) was a Swedish-Norwegian sociologist and economist.

He was born in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

 as a son of bookseller and publisher Johan Heinrich Wilhelm Bosse (1836–1896) and Anne-Marie Lehmann (1834–1894). He was a brother of Alma Fahlstrøm

Alma Fahlstrøm

Alma Isabella Bosse was born in Denmark, and became a well known Norwegian actress and theatre manager together with her husband Johan Fahlstrøm.Their only son, Arne Fahlstrøm, drowned in the Titanic disaster...

 and Harriet Bosse

Harriet Bosse

Harriet Sofie Bosse was a Swedish–Norwegian actress. A celebrity in her own day, Bosse is today most commonly remembered as the third wife of August Strindberg, an influential playwright. Bosse began her career in a minor company run by her forceful older sister Alma Fahlstrøm in Kristiania...

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He took the doctorate in Kiel

University of Kiel

The University of Kiel is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the Academia Holsatorum Chiloniensis by Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and has approximately 23,000 students today...

in 1914 on the thesis Norwegens Stellung im internationalen Wirtschaftsleben vom 16. Jarhundert bis zur Gegenwart. He was a professor in Kiel from 1920 to 1926 and 1948 to his death. He died in September 1956 in Oslo.