Bertil Lundman
Bertil Lundman | |
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Bertil Lundman in 1987 | |
| Born | Bertil Johannes Lundman 16 February 1899 |
| Died | 5 November 1993 (aged 94) Uppsala, Sweden |
| Occupations | Anthropologist, eugenicist |
| Known for | Scientific racism |
Bertil J. Lundman (28 September 1899, Malmö – 5 November 1993, Uppsala) was a Swedish anthropologist.
Early life
Lundman was born on 28 September 1899, in Malmö.
Career
Lundman was an anthropologist. In the 1930s, he wrote an article in Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde, a German journal of racial studies.[1] Later, he served on the executive committee of the International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics.[1] He created a racial classification system of Europeans in his book The Races and Peoples of Europe (1977).
According to Swedish historian Martin Ericsson, Lundman made some of the "most racist" claims among Swedish researchers on the subject in the 20th century, placing Nordic people on the top of his racial hierarchy and thus in some way resembling the "Nazi Aryan myth".[2]
Death
Lundman died on 5 November 1993.
Bibliography
- "Västmanlandstyper, Julläsning", Västmanlands läns tidning (in Swedish) (1931)
- "Folktypsundersökningar i Dalarna I-IX", Dalarnas hembygdsbok (in Swedish) (1932–38, 1940, 1946)
- Nordens rastyper, (in Swedish) (1940)
- Sveriges religiösa geografi, (in Swedish) (1942)
- Jordens människoraser och folkstammar (in Swedish) (1943-44)
- Dala-allmogens antropologi (doctoral dissertation), (in Swedish) (1945)
- "On the Origin of the Lapps", Ethnos (1946)
- Nutidens människoraser (in Swedish) (1946)
- Recent racial research in Finland (1946)
- Raser och folkstockar i Baltoskandia (in Swedish) (1946, 1967)
- Dalarnas folk typer och härstamning (in Swedish) (1948)
- "Ergebnisse der anthropologischen Lappenforchung", Anthropos (in German) (1952)
- Umriss der Rassenkunde des Menschen in geschichtlicher Zeit (in German) (1952)
- Stammeskunde der Völker (Ethnogonie) Eine Uebersicht (in German) (1961)
- "The Racial History of Scandinavia", The Mankind Quarterly (1962)
- Kort översikt av Sveriges etnogeografi (in Swedish) (1966)
- Blutgruppenforschung und geograpische Anthropologie (in German) (1967)
- Baltoskandias antropologi (in Swedish) (1967)
- Geographische Anthropologie (in German) (1967)
- Tribes of the Earth (1969)
- The human races of the earth or the geographical variation of man through climatic adaptations and migrations (1969)
- Concise Ethnogeography (1970)
- The Races and Peoples of Europe (translation) (1977)
- Minnen (memoirs) (in Swedish) (1987)
- Jordens folkstammar (in Swedish) (1988)
References
- ^ a b Winston, Andrew S. (Spring 1998). "Science in the service of the far right: Henry E. Garrett, the IAAEE, and the Liberty Lobby - International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology - Experts in the Service of Social Reform: SPSSI, Psychology, and Society, 1936-1996". Journal of Social Issues. 54: 179–210. doi:10.1111/j.1540-4560.1998.tb01212.x.
- ^ Ericsson, Martin (2023). Vetenskapen som försvann: Svensk rasforskning efter 1935 (in Swedish). Kriterium. p. 179. JSTOR jj.7994673.
Av alla de rasforskare som diskuteras i denna bok var Lundman den som förde fram de mest rasistiska kunskapsanspråken, alltså påståenden som var värderande, uttalade sig negativt om rasers mentala egenskaper och tilldelade raser olika positioner i en hierarki. [...] "Nordiska" människor placerades högst upp, och genom att koppla samman den nordiska rasen med den yngre stenålderns indoeuropeiska "erövrare" kom hans historieskrivning att i vissa drag påminna om den nazistiska ariermyten, dock utan att arierbegreppet användes.
[Of all the race researchers discussed in this book, Lundman was the one who made the most racist claims, i.e. claims that were judgmental, made negative statements about the mental characteristics of races, and assigned races different positions in a hierarchy.[...] ”Nordic” people were placed at the top, and by connecting the Nordic race with the Neolithic Indo-European ”conquerors”, his historiography came to resemble the Nazi Aryan myth in some ways, although without using the term Aryan.]