Martin Persson Nilsson
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1935.12.17 The following were nominated as Hon. Fellows: Prof. H. Lundborg, Prof. Thilenius, Dr Mollison, Prof. Menghin, Prof. Martin P. Nilsson, Prof. Baron Heine-Geldern, Baron von Eickstedt and Dr Gunnar Landtman
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Martin Persson Nilsson (Stoby, Kristianstad County, 12 July 1874 – Lund, 7 April 1967) was a Swedish philologist, mythographer, and a scholar of the Greek, Hellenistic and Roman religious systems. In his studies he combined literary evidence with archaeological evidence, linking historic and prehistoric evidence for the evolution of the Greek mythological cycles.
Beginning in 1900 as a tutor at the University of Lund, he was appointed Secretary to the Swedish Archaeological Commission working in Rhodes, in 1905. In 1909 he was appointed Professor of Ancient Greek, Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Lund. Later, Nilsson was Secretary of the Royal Society of Letters in Lund and an Associate of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, in Stockholm. In 1924 he was made a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
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External Publications
Primitive Time-Reckoning; A Study in the Origins and First Development of the Art of Counting Time Among the Primitive and Early Culture Peoples
The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology (Berkeley: University of California Press) 1932 (On-line text) This work had its origins in the Sather Classical Lectures
Homer and Mycenae (London: Methuen) 1933
Primitive Religion 1934
"Early Orphism and Kindred Religious Movements" Harvard Theological Review 28 (1935):180-230
The Age of the Early Greek Tyrants (Belfast) 1936 (The Dill Memorial Lecture)
Greek Popular Religion (New York: Columbia University Press) 1940 (On-line text)
Grekisk Religiositet (Stockholm: Hugo Gebers Förlag) 1946 (republished in German translation as Griechischer Glaube, Bern: A. Francke Verlag, 1950)
Greek Folk Religion. Reprinted with a foreword by Arthur Darby Nock, 1972
Den Grekiska Religionens Historia, 1922 (republished in German translation as Geschichte der griechischen Religion in Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft)
Minoan-Mycenaean Religion, and Its Survival in Greek Religion (Lund: Gleerup); revised 2nd ed. 1950
The Bacchic Mysteries in Italy See also "The Bacchic Mysteries in the Roman Age" Harvard Theological Review 46 (1953):175-202
Cults, Myths, Oracles, and Politics in Ancient Greece (Studies in Mediterranean Archeology)
Greek Piety (Norton/Oxford University Press) 1969
The Historical Hellenistic Background of the New Testament (The Bedell Lecture, Kenyon College)