Peter Vilhelm Glob also P.V. Glob, was a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 archaeologist who worked as the Director General of Museums and Antiquities of the state of Denmark and was also the Director of the National Museum

National Museum of Denmark

The National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen is Denmark’s largest museum of cultural history, comprising the histories of Danish and foreign cultures, alike. The museum's main domicile is located a short distance from Strøget at the center of Copenhagen. It contains exhibits from around the world,...

 in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

. Glob was most noted for his investigations of Denmark's bog bodies

Bog body

Bog bodies, which are also known as bog people, are the naturally preserved human corpses found in the sphagnum bogs in Northern Europe. Unlike most ancient human remains, bog bodies have retained their skin and internal organs due to the unusual conditions of the surrounding area...

 such as Tollund Man

Tollund Man

The Tollund Man is the naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 4th century BC, during the time period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age. He was found in 1950 buried in a peat bog on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, which preserved his body. Such a find is...

 and Grauballe Man

Grauballe Man

The Grauballe Man is a bog body that was uncovered in 1952 from a peat bog near to the village of Grauballe in Jutland, Denmark. The body itself is that of an adult male dating from the late 3rd century BC, during the early Iron Age, and he had been killed by having his throat slit open...

 -- mummified remains of Iron

Iron Age

The Iron Age is the archaeological period generally occurring after the Bronze Age, marked by the prevalent use of iron. The early period of the age is characterized by the widespread use of iron or steel. The adoption of such material coincided with other changes in society, including differing...

 and Bronze Age

Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is a period characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze as the chief hard materials in the manufacture of some implements and weapons. Chronologically, it stands between the Stone Age and Iron Age...

 people found preserved within peat bogs. His anthropological works include The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved; Denmark: An Archaeological History from the Stone Age to the Vikings; and Mound People: Danish Bronze-Age Man Preserved. He was co-founder of the Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism

Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism

The Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism is a non-profit cultural institute based in Denmark.It was founded in 1961 by the Danish artist Asger Jorn, Peter Glob and Werner Jacobsen from the National Museum of Denmark and Holger Arbman of the University of Lund, Sweden, after Jorn left...

. Glob was the son of the Danish painter Johannes Glob and the father of the Danish ceramic artist Lotte Glob

Lotte Glob

Lotte Glob is a Danish ceramic artist living in the north of Scotland. She is the daughter of Peter Glob.-Life:In 1968 she established a workshop in Balnakiel Craft Village at Durness in Sutherland, but recently moved to Loch Eriboll 9 miles east of Durness...

. His most famous investigation was that of the Tollund Man.

Select bibliography

• Mosefolket Fernalderens Mennesker bevaret i 2000 Ar, Gyldendal, 1965
  • The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved, translated from the Danish by Rupert Bruce-Mitford
    Rupert Bruce-Mitford
    Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-Mitford was a British archaeologist best known for his multi-volume publication on the Sutton Hoo ship burial....
    
    . Faber and Faber
    Faber and Faber
    Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T. S. Eliot. Faber has a rich tradition of publishing a wide range of fiction, non fiction, drama, film and music...
    
    , 1969 (originally published in 1965 as Mosefolket Fernalderens Mennesker bevaret i 2000 År), 304 pg. (New York Review Books
    New York Review Books
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    , 2004).
• Denmark: An Archaeological History from the Stone Age to the Vikings, Cornell University Press, 1971, 351 pg, ISBN 0801406412
• Danish Prehistoric Monuments, Faber and Faber, 1971, 351, ISBN 0571087825
• Mound People: Danish Bronze-Age Man Preserved , Cornell University Press, 1974, 184 pg, ISBN 978-0801408007
• Danefæ. Til Hendes Majestaet Dronning Margrethe II, 16 April 1980.