Jarl Gallén

Jarl Wilhelm Erik Gallén (23 May 1908 – 27 March 1990) was a Finnish historian and Swedish-speaking professor in history at Helsinki University from 1964 to 1975.

He took an active part in debates on ideology and politics and helped found the Aktiva studentförbundet [sv] student society, and served as editor of the student newspaper Studentbladet from 1930 to 1932, where he made a name for himself as a pugnacious and combative right-wing debater.

[5] One of Gallén's thesis is that he holds it as unlikely that the Swedes made a crusade to Finland 1249–1250 from a political point of view, because of a serious power struggle with Norway at the time.

He was highly regarded both in Finland and abroad as a scholar of Finnish and Nordic medieval history.

[6] Winners have included Sverre Bagge, Monika Hedlund, Anders Andrén, Lars Boje Mortensen, Lena Liepe, and Stephen Mitchell.