Ernst Skarstedt

Ernst Teofil Skarstedt (April 14, 1857 – March 13, 1929) was a Swedish-American author, journalist, and editor of Swedish-language books and newspapers.

He is most noted as the author of a three-volume trilogy covering the Swedish immigrant experience in the Pacific Northwest.

[1][2][3] Ernst Teofil Skarstedt was born in Solberga parish, municipality of Kungälv, in Västra Götaland County, located in the traditional province of Bohuslän, Sweden.

His younger brother was Swedish journalist and politician Carl Abraham Waldemar Skarstedt (1861–1931).

In 1911, he published the last volume in his trilogy Oregon och dess svenska befolkning containing biographies of prominent Swedish-Americans.