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
Researcher in Latin at Department of Linguistics and Philology
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 425 06 95
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 635
751 26 UPPSALA
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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 at Lövstabruk, adjunct member of the working committee of the Leufsta Foundation. Coordinator of the Poznań-project. Secretary of the Rare Books and Special Collections Section of IFLA. Member of the CERL working group for Retrospective National Bibliographies.
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 literary spoils of war. Convener of the Neo-Latin Network of Uppsala, and one of the editors of Bibliotheca Neolatina Upsaliensis. From January 2022 project manager of The Carmina Suecorum Poetarum Latina of Samuel Älf, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Publications
Recent publications
- Protestant Books in Jesuit Libraries from Riga, Braniewo and Poznań (2024)
- On Literary Spoils of War in Private Libraries. (2024)
- Om litterära krigsbyten i privatsamlares bibliotek (2024)
- The Carmina Suecorum Poetarum Latina of Samuel Älf (2024)
- Greek at Uppsala University in the Early Seventeenth Century (2024)
All publications
Articles
- On Literary Spoils of War in Private Libraries. (2024)
- Om litterära krigsbyten i privatsamlares bibliotek (2024)
- Bernd Roling, Odins Imperium. Der Rudbeckianismus als Paradigma an den skandinavischen Universitäten (1680–1860). 2 Teilbde. (Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, Bd. 54.) Leiden, Brill 2020 (2022)
- Biblioteket vid Leufstabruk (2022)
- The Books of King Sigismund at Uppsala University Library (2022)
- Bokliga gåvor till Charles De Geers bibliotek på Leufstabruk (2022)
- Om statyer av lärda män i bibliotek (2022)
- Resource Description and Access (RDA) (2022)
- The Library of Leufstabruk (2022)
- Swedish Book History. Age of Reformation and Confessionalization (2021)
- Otfried Czaika and Wolfgang Undorf, eds, Schwedische Buchgeschichte.Zeitalter der Reformation und Konfessionalisierung, Vandenhoeck &Ruprecht: Göttingen, 2021; 253 pp., 27 illus.; 9783525564974, €80.00(hbk); 9783647564975, €64.99 (ebook) (2021)
- Literary Spoils of War in Uppsala in Practice (2021)
- Litterära krigbytens öden i Sverige (2020)
- Litterära krigsbyten i Uppsala och deras användning (2020)
- The Reception of Books from Braniewo in the 17th-century Uppsala University Library (2020)
- Att vara sen kan vara till fördel (2020)
- On the Order of the Books in the First Uppsala University Library Building (2019)
- Om böckernas ordning i Uppsala universitetsbiblioteks första byggnad (2019)
- Books from Poznań at the Uppsala University Library (2017)
- Transcription in Rare Books Cataloging (2016)
- Dear Brother, Gracious Maecenas. Latin Letters of the Gyldenstolpe Brothers (1661-1680). By Raija Sarasti-Wilenius. Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Toimituksia Humaniora, 374, Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2015. 457 pp. (2016)
- Freden i Oliwa och restitutionen av bokliga krigbyten (2014)
- Kungapanegyrisk poesi och paratext hos Petrus Lagerlöf (2012)
- Hauge, Peter, 'The Temple of Music' by Robert Fludd (Farnham: Ashgate 2011), 315 pp. (2012)
- Andreas Orostander’s Compendium musicum (2010)
- Forskning om musikteori från 1600-talet (2010)
- Prudentius in Sweden (2010)
- Benny Jacobsson, Den sjunde världsdelen: västgötar och Västergötland 1646-1771: en identitetshistoria (Stockholm: Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och idéhistoria, 2008). 498 s. (2009)
- Harald Vallerius (2009)
- Ovidius, Karl IX och Göteborgs grundläggande (2009)
- Posteris debetur inusitata virtutis memoria (2009)
- The Early Latin Poetry of Sylvester Johannis Phrygius (2008)
Books
- Looted Libraries, Looted Books (2024)
- The Baltic Battle of Books (2023)
- A Warm Scent of Books (2023)
- Benjamin Höijer, Konst och filosofi (2021)
- Kulturarvsperspektiv (2018)
- Bevara för framtiden (2016)
- Mot depositionsaktens grymheter (2015)
- The Music Theory of Harald Vallerius (2012)
- Bröllop hos Schefferus och andra dikter av Petrus Lagerlöf (2010)
- The Early Latin Poetry of Sylvester Johannis Phrygius (2007)
Chapters
- Protestant Books in Jesuit Libraries from Riga, Braniewo and Poznań (2024)
- The Carmina Suecorum Poetarum Latina of Samuel Älf (2024)
- Greek at Uppsala University in the Early Seventeenth Century (2024)
- A Battle of Books through Five Cenuries (2023)
- Useful Literary Spoils of War from Riga at Uppsala University Library (2023)
- Some Notes on Charles de Geer’s Working Library (2023)
- Dedicatory Practices in Early Uppsala Dissertations (2021)
- Latin as a Language of Early Modern Musicology. (2021)
- Det första universitetsbiblioteket (2021)
- Mot studenternas missbruk av boktryckarkonsten (2020)
- Losy księgozbiorów zagrabionych w czasazh wojen szwedzkich w XVII w (2020)
- Das sogenannte Notizbuch von Kopernikus (2019)
- REDEVNT SATVRNIA REGNA (2019)
- The Congratulatory Poetry of Petrus Lagerlöf (2019)
- Bokliga krigsbyten som kulturtransfer? (2018)
- Polish collections at Uppsala University Library (2017)
- Two Pieces on the War in Skåne by Petrus Lagerlöf (2017)
- Petrus Lagerlöf Instructing on Gothicism (2017)
- Tidigmoderna dissertationer i Sverige - en överblick (2017)
- Den unika boken / The Unique Book (2012)
- Att förvalta ett arv (2009)
- Posteris debetur inusitata virtutis memoria (2009)
Conferences
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