Svante Dahlström

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Svante Dahlström
Born	(1883-10-14)14 October 1883
Died	21 January 1965(1965-01-21) (aged 81)
Nationality	Finnish
Occupation	Historian

Svante Dahlström (14 October 1883 – 21 January 1965) was a Finland-Swedish historian. He married music educator  [sv; fi] in 1925 and was the father of musicologist  [sv; fi].

Dahlström was born in Turku, Finland, in 1883 to Johan Edvard Dahlström and Augusta Charlotta Hallqvist. After graduating in 1901, he became a Bachelor of Philosophy in 1910, was the first administrative director of the Åbo Academy Foundation from 1917 to 1920 and secretary of the academy's consistory from 1918 to 1944. At the University of Helsinki, Dahlström was the secretary of the student society Prometheus, an organization promoting freedom of religion; he worked together with philosopher and sociologist Edvard Westermarck. He was awarded a licentiate of philosophy in 1929, was docent (associate professor) of Nordic history from 1930 to 1944, an associate professor from 1944 to 1950 and a doctor of philosophy in 1948.

Dahlström founded the Turku-Area Song and Music Society (Åbolands sång- och musikförbund) in 1922, of which he was long chairman, and he was the initiator of the  [sv] (Finlands svenska sång- och musikförbund) in 1929. Among his historical works are Åbo brand (1929) and Runsala (1942). Under the pseudonym Père Noble he published Sommar (stories, 1917) and Bokslut (poetry, 1939).

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• Dahlström, Svante in Svenskt författarlexikon 1. 1900–1940
• Dahlström, Svante in Biografiskt lexikon för Finland (2011)
• Dahlström, Svante in Uppslagsverket Finland (web edition, 2012). CC-BY-SA 4.0

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