Birgitta Odén Explained

Birgitta Odén
Birth Name:Agnes Birgitta Odén
Birth Date:11 August 1921
Birth Place:Uppsala, Sweden
Death Place:Lund, Sweden
Occupation:Historian, professor
Children:1
Father:Sven Odén
Relatives:Svante Odén (sibling)

Agnes Birgitta Odén-Dunér (11 August 1921 – 5 May 2016) was a Swedish historian. She was the first woman to hold a professorship at Lund University, and was also the first female history professor in Sweden.[1] [2] [3] [4] She was a member of several local and international literal and historical academies such as the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters;[5] The Science Society in Lund (honorary); the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities; the Academy of Finland;[6] the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1977;[7] and the Academia Europaea.[8]

Life

Birgitta Oden was born on 11 August 1921 in Uppsala. She was the daughter of Professor Sven Odén and Agnes Bergman, and the sister of Svante Odén.[9] Odén received a Master of Philosophy in 1944, a Licentiate in 1947 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Lund in 1955. She was the professor of history at Lund University from 1965 to 1987. At the time of her appointment, she was both Sweden's first female professor of history[10] and the first ever female professor at Lund University. (Carin Boalt had been appointed as a professor at LTH the year before, which at the time was still an independent university.)[11] [12] [13]

Birgitta Odén wrote her dissertation on Swedish 16th century fiscal policy.[14] [15] She later worked on environmental history and social history.[16] In 1998 she received the Gerontology Prize, which is awarded by the Nordic Gerontological Society, and in 2005 she received the Great Gerontology Prize, which is awarded by the Swedish Gerontological Society.[17]

In 1953, she married Major Uno Dunér (1886–1983), son of the bank director Fritiof Dunér and Charlotta Helena Sjöberg.[18] Together, they had a son Mårten Dunér (born 1956), an architect.[19]

Birgitta Oden died on 5 May 2016 in Lund, Scania. She is buried at the cemetery in Hanaskog, Sweden.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: skbl.se – Agnes Birgitta Odén. 28 July 2021. skbl.se.
  2. Web site: Agnes Birgitta Odén in Swedish. live. 28 July 2021. skbl.se. https://web.archive.org/web/20180328102602/https://skbl.se/sv/artikel/BirgittaOden . 28 March 2018 .
  3. Web site: History of Lund University. live. Lund University. https://web.archive.org/web/20210415111102/https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about-university/university-glance/history-lund-university . 15 April 2021 .
  4. Edgren, L., Berggren, L., & Karlsson, K-G. (2016). Birgitta Odén. Sydsvenskan. http://www.sydsvenskan.se/2016-06-28/birgitta-odn
  5. Web site: 2 April 2015. Utländska ledamöter – Ulkomaiset jäsenet – Foreign members. live. 28 July 2021. Finnish Science Society. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402174245/http://www.scientiarum.fi/pdf/LEDAMOTSLISTOR/ufvswebb_alfabetisk_2015-01-27.pdf. 2 April 2015.
  6. Web site: 3 October 2015. Utländska akademiker genom tiderna – Finlands Akademi. 28 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20151003124829/http://www.aka.fi/sv/om-akademin/vilka-ar-det-som-forskar/tieteen-akateemikot/ulkomaiset-tieteen-akateemikot/. 3 October 2015.
  7. Web site: Utenlandske medlemmer. Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. no. 27 December 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20070715102608/http://www.dnva.no/c26849/artikkel/vis.html?tid=26861. 15 July 2007.
  8. Web site: Academy of Europe: Odén Birgitta. 28 July 2021. www.ae-info.org.
  9. Web site: 624 (Vem är Vem? / Skåne, Halland, Blekinge 1966). 28 July 2021. runeberg.org. sv.
  10. Web site: Regeringskansliet. Regeringen och. 20 February 2010. Kvinnor, män och jämställdhet i läromedel i historia. 28 July 2021. Regeringskansliet. sv.
  11. Eva Österberg, "Birgitta Odén", Kungl Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademiens årsbok 2017, p. 25–36.
  12. Book: Kuismin. Anna. White Field, Black Seeds: Nordic Literacy Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century. Driscoll. M. J.. 21 March 2019. BoD – Books on Demand. 978-952-222-444-6. en.
  13. Web site: Uppsala and Lund Universities. live. 28 July 2021. www.nordstjernan.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20210728131430/http://www.nordstjernan.com/news/education/970/ . 28 July 2021 .
  14. Book: A Survey of Numismatic Research 1960–1965: Modern numismatics including medals, edited by N. L. Ludvig, L. O. Lagerqvist, and C. Svarstad. 1967. International Numismatic Commission. fr.
  15. Book: Trulsson, Sven G.. British and Swedish Policies and Strategies in the Baltic After the Peace of Tilsit in 1807: A Study of Decision-making. 1976. LiberLäromedel/Gleerup. 978-91-40-04250-7. en.
  16. Book: Glete, Jan. Swedish Naval Administration, 1521–1721: Resource Flows and Organisational Capabilities. 2010. BRILL. 978-90-04-17916-5. en.
  17. Web site: SGS – förr, nu, och i framtiden – Sveriges Gerontologiska Sällskap. 28 July 2021. sv-SE.
  18. Book: Sveriges befolkning 1890 [ett samarbetsprojekt mellan Arkion/SVAR och Sveriges släktforskarförbund]]. 2003.
  19. Web site: Birgitta Odén. live. 28 July 2021. Sydsvenskan. sv. https://web.archive.org/web/20210728130356/https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2016-06-28/birgitta-oden . 28 July 2021 .

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