Åke Åkerström was a Swedish archaeologist

Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology , is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes...

 and classical scholar

Classics

Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or...

. He is best known for his work on architectural terracottas and Ancient vase painting.

Biography

Åkerström received his doctoral degree at Uppsala University in 1934 where he was a student of Axel W Persson

Axel W Persson

Axel Waldemar Persson was a Swedish archaeologist, a professor of classical archaeology and ancient history at Uppsala University from 1925 to 1951...

. His dissertation was titled Studien über die etruskischen Gräber, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Entwicklung des Kammergrabes and dealt with Etruscan chamber tombs. He was the director of the Swedish Institute at Athens

Swedish Institute at Athens

The Swedish Institute at Athens is one of the 17 foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece.-General information, facilities:...

during two periods, 1948-1956 and 1970-1972.

Monographs

• 1934 Studien über die etruskischen Gräber, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Entwicklung des Kammergrabes
• 1940 Larisa am Hermos: die Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen 1902-1934. 2, Die architektonischen Terrakotten
• 1943 Der geometrische Stil in Italien
• 1951 Architektonische Terrakottaplatten in Stockholm
• 1966 Die Architektonischen Terrakotten Kleinasiens
• 1987 Berbati vol. 2, The Pictorial Pottery

External links

• Åke Åkerström Papers, Getty Research Institute
• Archive of Åke Åkerström, Gothenburg University Library