Survey
of the scientific career of Sven Ekdahl
Swedish nationality, since 1979 resident in
Berlin.
Born in
1935 in the province of Smaland in southern Sweden. Academic studies at
the universities of Gothenburg (Sweden)
and Göttingen (Federal Republic of Germany).
MA in 1961,
approved for civil service. Licentiate examina in history at the University of
Gothenburg in 1967. Employment as librarian at the university library of
Gothenburg (1965-1968) and as archivist at the regional archives of Gothenburg
(1968-1973).
Scholarships
from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society for
research in the archives of the Teutonic Order in “Staatliches Archivlager” in
Göttingen, where the former State Archives of Königsberg (East Prussia) were then
kept.
Promotion
for a doctorate cum gradu in history at the Abo Academy (Swedish University) in
Finnland (1977) and habilitation at the University of Gothenburg (1978) .
In the same
year, appointment as assistant professor at the University of Gothenburg.
1979-1999
scientific researcher at the Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Berlin, where the archives of the Teutonic Order had been taken from Göttingen,
in 1978/79.
From 1996
to 1999, chairman of the Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk e.V., Lueneburg.
Granted the
Stanislaw Sawicki Award by the Polish-Scandinavian Research Institute in
Copenhagen in 1998 and the Order of Grand Duke Gediminas (State Order of the
Republic of Lithuania) by President Valdas Adamkus in 1999.
In 2002
appointed professor in medieval history (research professor) at the
Polish-Scandinavian Research Institute, also member of the board of that
institute. In 2004 appointed honorary
doctor at the University of Vilnius and in 2005 as foreign member of the
Lituanian Academy of Sciences.
Former,
respectively present co-editor of scientific reviews in Sweden, Poland and
Lithuania and editor of the jubilee book of The Swedish Parish (Victoria
Parish) in Berlin, 2003.
Author of
more than one hundred scientific publications (excluding book reviews), most of
which dealing with the history of Prussia, Poland, Lithuania, Sweden and
Livonia in the late Middle Ages.
Special
field of research : the Battle of Tannenberg (Grunwald, Žalgiris, Hrunval’d,
Grjunval’d/Grünwald) in 1410.
Bibliography in internet : www.ekdahl.de
Member of several historical commissions and
societies in various countries.
Married, three grandchildren.
Sven Ekdahl
Berlin, December 2009.