Lennart Kjellberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lennart Kjellberg

Swedish classical archaeologist

Date of Birth: 30-Sep-1857

Place of Birth: Uppsala Cathedral Assembly, Uppsala County, Sweden

Date of Death: 07-May-1936

Profession: archaeologist, classical archaeologist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Anders Lennart Kjellberg (30 September 1857, Uppsala – 7 May 1936, Uppsala) was a Swedish classical archaeologist.
He was the son of psychiatrist Gustaf Kjellberg (1827–1893). From 1877 he studied at Uppsala University, earning his doctorate in 1889.
In 1896 he became an associate professor of classical archaeology at Uppsala.
He received the title of professor in 1913, and five years later became a full professor of classical archaeology.In the summer of 1894, with Samuel Wide, he performed an archaeological excavation of the sanctuary of Poseidon on the island of Kalaureia.
In the spring of 1902, with Johannes Boehlau, he conducted an archaeological dig on the site of the ancient city of Larissa in Asia Minor.
Findings from these excavations where submitted in the Athenische Mittheilungen (1895) and the Språkvetenskapliga sällskapets i Uppsala förhandlingar (1900–03).
In 1932/34, with Johannes Boehlau, he returned to the excavation site at Larissa.