Ernst Manker

Ernst Mauritz Manker (20 March 1893 – 1 February 1972)[1][2] was a Swedish ethnographer, known for his work on Sami history and ethnography.

Manker was born in Tjörn; his father was a sea captain and a farmer.

His first job was at the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm, where he studied African cultures and wrote Kristallbergens folk (1929).

[1] When a Sami section was established at the Nordic Museum in 1939, he became its first director.

He also wrote The nomadism of the Swedish mountain Lapps (1953), Lapparnas heliga ställen (1957), and Fångstgropar och stalotomter (1960).