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Amandus Johnson
American historian
Amandus Johnson (October 27, 1877 – June 30, 1974) was a Swedish- American historian, author and museum director.
He is most associated with his epic two volume history The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware 1638-1664, which was also published in Swedish as Den första svenska kolonien i Amerika (1923). [1][2]
Biography
Amandus Johnson was born at Långasjö in Emmaboda Municipality, Kalmar, Sweden.
His family emigrated to America and settled in Rice Lake, Minnesota in 1880. Johnson studied at Gustavus Adolphus College and in 1904 took a bachelor's degree. He earned a master's degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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He received his doctorate in 1908 from the University of Pennsylvania where he wrote his doctoral dissertation Swedish Settlements on the Delaware, 1638-1664 on the Swedish colony of New Sweden. In 1908, Johnson was one of the cofounders of the Swedish Colonial Society.
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