Johannes Brøndsted
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Johannes Brøndsted, Danish archaeologist and prehistorian.
- 1890: born in Jutland
- 1920: doctorate: relations between Anglo-Saxon and Nordic art in Viking times
- 1922 & 1923: with E. Dyggve, excavated early Christian monuments in Dalmatia; published account as Recherches à Salone (1928)
- 1941-1951: Professor of Nordic Archeology and European Prehistory at the University of Copenhagen
- 1951-1960: director of the National Museum in Copenhagen
- Danmarks Oldtid (three vols.; 2e; 1957-1959): prehistory of Denmark
- 1952: elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
- 1953: received the gold medal of the Royal Society of Antiquities
- The Vikings (1960) (English edition: trans. Kalle Skov; Penguin, Harmondsworth; 1965; ISBN 0140204598)
- 1965: died
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