Peter Sjökvist

Librarian at University Library; Special Collections Division; Early Printed Books and Special Collections

Telephone:
+46 18 471 39 90
Mobile phone:
+46 70 425 06 95
E-mail:
peter.sjokvist@ub.uu.se
Visiting address:
Carolina Rediviva, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 1
Postal address:
Box 510
751 20 UPPSALA

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ORCID:
0000-0002-0953-8902

Biography

Librarian in the Special Collections Division at Uppsala University Library in the working group for Early Printed Books and Special Collections. Coordinator of cataloguing in the division. EOD-operator (Ebooks On Demand). Curator of the library of Lövstabruk, member of the board of the Leufsta Foundation, and adjunct member of its working committee. Member of the Rare Books and Special Collections Section of IFLA. Member of the CERL working group for Retrospective National Bibliographies. National representative in the management committee of COST Action CA23137 - Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe 1500-1800. Currently working on the books of Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie at Carolina Rediviva, as well as books taken as spoils of war from Mainz in 1631.

PhD and Associate Professor (Docent) of Latin at the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University, specializing in Neo-Latin. Has a special interest in occasional poetry, early modern academic dissertations and books taken as spoils of war. Convener of the Neo-Latin Network of Uppsala, and one of the editors of Bibliotheca Neolatina Upsaliensis. In the spring of 2026 finishing a translation of Tomas Thorild's Maximum seu archimetria (1799).

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