Bernhard Salin

Carl Bernhard Salin (14 January 1861, Örebro – 20 October 1931, Stockholm), was a Swedish archaeologist, cultural historian and museum curator.

[1] Bernhard Salin took the matriculation examination at the Public Grammar School in Nyköping 28 May 1880 and then became a student at Uppsala University, where he became in 1885 Bachelor in Scandinavian languages, the aesthetics of art and literature, Latin, history, political science and astronomy.

Salin was originally an art historian, but was interested in prehistoric archaeology, and as an archaeologist he participated including at the excavation in Siretorp in Blekinge in 1915.

In 1891, 1892, 1894 and 1895, he carried out over a total of two years of extensive study in central and southern Europe.

As a result of the trips he published in 1904 the work Altgermanische Thierornamentik containing style analysis and consideration of the various cultural currents during the Migration Period.