Georg J:son Karlin
Encyclopedia
Kulturen
Kulturen is a museum in Lund, Sweden. Kulturen is Sweden's second oldest open-air museum after Skansen in Stockholm. The complete name of the museum is Kulturhistoriska föreningen för södra Sverige.-History:...
open air museum in Lund
Lund
-Main sights:During the 12th and 13th centuries, when the town was the seat of the archbishop, many churches and monasteries were built. At its peak, Lund had 27 churches, but most of them were demolished as result of the Reformation in 1536. Several medieval buildings remain, including Lund...
, Sweden.
Biography
Georg Karlin was born at HuarödHuaröd
Huaröd is a locality situated in Kristianstad Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 242 inhabitants in 2010....
in Norra Åkarp, in Kristianstad
Kristianstad
Kristianstad is a city and the seat of Kristianstad Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 35,711 inhabitants in 2010.-History:The city was founded in 1614 by King Christian IV of Denmark, the city's name literally means 'Town of Christian', as a planned city after the burning of the town of Vä...
Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
. He was the son of Pastor Lars Peter Johansson and Karolina Kristina Nilsson. He passed matriculation at the University of Lund during 1879. He was married twice. In 1896 with Anna Clara Maria Forsell (1869-1898) and in 1904 to Gurli Hedvig Maria Ström.
Karlin had observed old agrarian society give way to industrial society. He tried to save part of the folk culture by beginning to save the buildings, equipment, furniture and clothes associated with the old folk culture. Kulturen museum was founded by Georg Karlin in 1882. He was its director until 1933. His work has resulted in a huge and unique collection of more than two million items at Kulturen, the second largest open air museum in Sweden.
Selected works
- Kulturhistoriska museets Östarp. Dess natur, historia och ändamål (Lund: Håkan Ohlssons Boktryckeri. 1924)
Other sources
- Fjelner, Alfred (1935) Skånska mannar från Lund (Stockholm: Hugo Gebers Förlag) Swedish