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About Olaf H. Olsen
- Olaf Heymann Olsen (7 June 1928 – 17 November 2015) was a Danish historian and archaeologist.
- He is known to have primarily worked in medieval and Viking Age archaeology. Olsen was already a student hired as an assistant at the National Museum in Copenhagen.
- He became museum superintendent at the National Museum in 1958.
- In 1966, he received a degree in philosophy at the University of Copenhagen.
- He was appointed as a professor of medieval archaeology at Aarhus University in 1971.
- In 1981, he became director of the National Museum and the Directorate for Cultural Heritage.
- Olsen has conducted numerous excavations of medieval churches and was primary in the discovery of the ancient Skuldelev ships.
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