Stig Strömholm

Stig Fredrik Strömholm (born 16 September 1931 in Boden, Sweden), Swedish, former rector magnificus of Uppsala University and past president of Academia Europaea.

On 5 June 1992 Strömholm received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities at Uppsala University, Sweden.

[6] On his retirement from the rectorial chair in 1997, he received a Festschrift, Festskrift till Stig Strömholm (Uppsala 1997), in two volumes and 925 pages, including a partial bibliography (ISBN 91-7678-341-3).

[9] In 1990 he was awarded the title of Foreign Academician of Science of the Academy of Finland.

[11] Strömholm was elected member of Academia Europaea in 1989; he served as its president from 1997 to 2002.