Martin P. Nilsson

Martin Persson Nilsson (Stoby, Kristianstad County, 12 July 1874 – Lund, 7 April 1967) was a Swedish philologist, mythographer, and a scholar of the Greek, Hellenistic and Roman religious systems.

Beginning in 1900 as a tutor at the University of Lund, he was appointed Secretary to the Swedish Archaeological Commission working in Rhodes, in 1905.

[1][2] Nilsson's best-known work in German is Geschichte der griechischen Religion (transl.

History of Greek Religion) in the Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft (transl.

Nilsson had previously published it in Swedish under the title Den grekiska religionens historia (1922).