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In Memory of Jan Peder Lamm FORN VÄNNEN JOURNAL OF SWEDISH ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCH 2020/4 Utgiven av Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien i samarbete med Historiska museet. Fornvännen finns på webben i sin helhet från första årgången och publiceras löpande där med ett halvårs fördröjning: fornvannen.se Ansvarig utgivare och huvudredaktör Mats Roslund Vitterhetsakademien Box 5622, 114 86 Stockholm [email protected] Redaktionssekreterare och mottagare av manuskript Peter Carelli Vitterhetsakademien Box 5622, 114 86 Stockholm [email protected] Redaktörer Herman Bengtsson, [email protected] Christina Fredengren, [email protected] Åsa M Larsson, [email protected] Teknisk redaktör Kerstin Öström Grävlingsvägen 50 167 56 Bromma [email protected] Prenumeration Vitterhetsakademien Box 5622, 114 86 Stockholm e-post [email protected] Bankgiro 535-3552 Årsprenumeration i Sverige (4 häften) 200 kronor, lösnummer 60 kronor Journal of Swedish Antiquarian Research published by The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities Subscription price outside Sweden (four issues) SEK 250:– Box 5622, SE-114 86 Stockholm, Sweden forn ännen började utges av Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien år 1906 och ersatte då Akademiens Månadsblad samt Svenska Fornminnesföreningens Tidskrift, som båda tillkommit under 1870-talets första år. Förutom i Sverige finns Fornvännen på drygt 350 bibliotek och vetenskapliga institutioner i mer än 40 länder. Tidskriften är referentgranskad. forn ännen (»The Antiquarian») has been published by the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities since 1906, when it replaced two older journals which had started in the early years of the 1870s. Outside Sweden Fornvännen is held by more than 350 libraries and scientific institutions in over 40 countries. The journal is peer-reviewed. issn 0015-7813 Printed in Sweden by AMO-tryck AB, Solna, 2020 Korta meddelanden 287 In memory of Jan Peder Lamm Dr. habil. Jan Peder Lamm was born on 27 Octo- ber 1935 in Sollefteå and died on 15 June 2020 in Nacka near Stockholm. He finished high school at Lundsberg in 1955, got his BA from Stockholm University in 1964, got his PhD there in 1973, and got his habilitation (Sw. docentur) there in 1980. His PhD supervisor was Greta Arwidsson. His longest-lasting workplace was the Swedish History Museum from 1975 to 2000. He directed the museum’s Iron Age department (covering the period 500 BC to AD 1100 in the Swedish ter- minology), and was then head of research. As an archaeologist, Jan Peder was primarily a museum curator and an extremely prolific wri- ter of short and solid contributions, both scholar- ly and popular. His interests were wide, but he returned particularly often to the elite culture of the Migration and Vendel Periods that he had written his BA and PhD theses about. That is Fig. 1. Jan Peder Lamm in the garden at Saltsjö-Boo what his longest works deal with: cemeteries on with his granddaughter Ida, October 2019. Photo: Lovö (1971; 1972; 1973) and gold foil figures Ottar Magnus. (2004). They bracket his museum years when it was apparently difficult to write books. The Migration and Vendel Period elite was also mely helpful. When he learned that a colleague the Helgö project’s main focus. Together with his studied a certain thing, then a little search light lit wife Kristina, Jan Peder worked with that site for up in his head and he never forgot. He would decades during and after Wilhelm Holmqvist’s come back to you year after year with relevant time as project leader. In 1990 he co-wrote Holm- reading matter and finds. And he would tell you qvist’s obituary in Fornvännen. This journal was about obscure foundations you could apply to for in fact another long-term commitment of Jan research funding, thus instilling a vital survival Peder’s: second only to Göran Tegnér, he was skill in many young scholars. one of its longest-serving editors so far from 1976 With his background in a large, old, cultured, to 2016. well-connected and energetic bourgeois family, Wide interests: in addition to his golden 5th Jan Peder often seemed a living link back to an through 8th centuries AD, Jan Peder often wrote Oscarian era that he had never experienced him- about the picture stones of Gotland, Viking Period self. His great-uncle Carl Robert was just one of crafts and ship’s weather vanes, Medieval brick many 19th century art collectors and patrons kilns, postage stamps, scythe manufacture, biblio- that Jan Peder wrote about, and he celebrated his graphy, early antiquarians, eminent deceased col- 80th birthday at Näsby Manor where Carl Robert leagues, museum collection history, museum thefts, had once lived and kept his collection. There was and Lithuania. And he reviewed countless books a curious duality about Jan Peder, where his con- on his favourite subjects. He was always working versation might lead you to think that he was a on several pieces in parallel, up until the last few personal friend of Oscar II, while his lifestyle was months of his life. in fact quite modest and unassuming. He liked to As a person, Jan Peder was humorous, good- cook jam and apple sauce from the produce of the natured, friendly, informal, generous and extre- family garden in Saltsjö-Boo, to bake shortbread Fornvännen 115 (2020) 288 Korta meddelanden cake flavoured with calvados, and to give away For half a century, Jan Peder Lamm served as the what he made as presents. He was hands-on and Swedish Antiquarian Society’s grant secretary. Now practical: toward the end of his life, his exasper- the Society has set up a fund to his memory. It will sup- ated wife could still not keep him from climbing port research into the Iron Age archaeology and trees with a pruning saw (fig. 1). imagery of the Nordic countries. Donations can be sent Jan Peder was absolutely crucial to my own pro- to Plusgiro 53921–3, labelled “JPL fund”. To apply for fessional path. For more than 28 years he was first funding, see fornminnesforeningen.com a supportive and permissive thesis supervisor, then my co-worker on Fornvännen and my friend. We are many who loved Jan Peder Lamm, who miss him, and who will remember him fondly! Martin Rundkvist Uniwersytet Łódzki, Poland [email protected] Jan Peder Lamm’s bibliography, part 2 Part 1 covering the years 1960–2001 was pub- Nordians hög. Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertums- lished in Jan Peder’s Festschrift: B. Magnus et al. kunde 21:309–310. (ed.), Vi får tacka Lamm, Studies 10, Swedish His- Norrala. Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde tory Museum, Stockholm 2001 (pp. 234–244). It 21:394–397. Norsa. Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde omitted a title from 1990 that is given below. The 21:397–398. following list is based on one that Jan Peder him- Norsborg. Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde self kept until late 2019, with a few additions. 21:398–399. Ödeshög. Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 1990 21:581–597. Vikings everywhere. Forntid och Framtid 1990/7:9–10. [Review] Vor skjulte kulturarv: arkæologien under over- fladen. Festskrift til Dronning Margrethe II. Ed. S. 2002 Hvass et al. Copenhagen 2000. Fornvännen 97:243 De havdjärvas märke: om vikingatidens skeppsflöjlar. –244. Gotländskt Arkiv 2002:33–42. [Review] The Vikings. M. Magnusson. Stroud 2000. Klintastaven, en öländsk klenod från vikingatiden Fornvännen 97:240–241. rekonstruerad. Ölandsbladet 30 April 2002:14–16. Vikingatidens resor och handel. Ed. K. Ådahl et al. 2003 Sverige och den islamiska världen – ett svenskt kultur- Ralf Ohlsson in memoriam. Nyhetsbrev för personal vid arv. Stockholm. 65–72. Statens historiska museum och Kungl. Myntkabinettet. Astrid Wexell går i pension. Nyhetsbrev för personal vid E-mail. Statens historiska museum och Kungl. Myntkabinettet Bildstenar: Tredje utvidgade och kompletterade svenska 27. E-mail. upplagan. Värnamo. With E. Nylén. Die wikingerzeitliche Miniaturwetterfahne aus Menz- Vindflöjlar. Liten klenod med stort förflutet. Den vi- lin, Lkr. Ostvorpommern und verwandte Funde. kingatida flöjeln från Saltvik aktualiserad av nya Bodendenkmalpflege in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 50: fynd. Åländsk Odling 2001–2002:129–143. 57–63. Svenolov Ehrén till minne. Nyhetsbrev för personal vid Möne. Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 20: Statens historiska museum och Kungl. Myntkabinettet. 136–137. E-mail. Nabberör. Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde [Review] Bibliographie zur Vor-und Frühgeschichte in der 20:478–479. Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Berlin (West) in den Fornvännen 115 (2020) Korta meddelanden 289 Grenzen vor 1990. Das Schrifttum der Jahre 1988 und 2006 1989. Ed. F. Stein. Stuttgart 2001. Fornvännen 98: Bengt Händel. Svenska Dagbladet 4 March 2006, Dagens 156–158. Nyheter 6 April 2006, Nyhetsbrev för personal vid [Review] Swedish Archaeological Bibliography 1882–1938. Statens historiska museer 77. With G. Tegnér. S. von Essen & S. Welinder. Stockholm 2001. Forn- Tjängvide. Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde vännen 98:156–158. 31:8–9. [Review] Swedish Seminar Papers in Archaeology 1997– Tjurkö. Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 31: 1999. M. Asplund. Stockholm 2000. Fornvännen 13–14. 98:156–158. Tureholm. Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 31:338–340. 2004 Uppsa kulle. Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertums- Nya ambassadörer för SHM. Nyhetsbrev för personal vid kunde 31:530–531. Statens historiska museum och Kungl. Myntkabinettet 45. E-mail. 2007 Sächsisches? und fränkisches. Einige Neufunde aus Torque-ornerad keramik på Gotland och i Galicien. Uppåkra und Hammarby in Schweden. Ed. M. Fornvännen 102:274–278. Lodewijckx. Bruc ealles well: Archaeological essays Two large silver hoards from Ocksarve on Gotland: concerning the peoples of North-West Europe in the first Evidence for Viking Period trade and warfare in millenium AD. Leuven. 103–106. the Baltic region. Ed. A. Bliujienė et al. Weapons, wea- Figural gold foils found in Sweden: a study based on ponry and man: In memoriam Vytautas Kazakevičius.
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