Andreas Alm

I am a historian and archivist at Folklivsarkivet in Lund with particular responsibility for the Mandelgren collection, which consists of documentation donated to Lund University by the art and culture historian Nils Månsson Mandelgren (1813–1899). I am mainly interested in the history of the humanities during the 19th century (archaeology, anthropology, ethnology, historiography, geography, religious studies, art history, linguistics, etc.), mainly focusing on the Nordic and German-speaking countries.

I am working with the publication of the Mandelgren collection in the cultural heritage database Alvin and have written several articles and book chapters on the subject, among other things about Mandelgren's documentation of medieval churches in Sweden during the 19th century in the eighth volume of the 900th anniversary work on Lund Cathedral (Ideas and worldviews).

My master's thesis in history, Egyptology in the Periphery. Valdemar Schmidt and the making of Egyptology in Denmark 1872–1925, has been revised and published in Addressing Diversity: Inclusive Histories of Egyptology (2023).