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
- CV:
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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. Secretary of the Rare Books and Special Collections Section of IFLA. Member of the CERL working group for Retrospective National Bibliographies. Is currently working on the books of Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie at Carolina Rediviva.
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. Until the end of 2024 project manager of The Carmina Suecorum Poetarum Latina of Samuel Älf, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. In 2025 finishing a translation of Tomas Thorild's Maximum seu archimetria (1799).

Publications
Recent publications
Looted Libraries, Looted Books: The Swedish Case
Brill Academic Publishers, 2024
Part of Reading, Writing, Translating, p. 343-355, Faculty of Humanities and Theology, Lund University, 2024
Part of Medicina Mentis, p. 351-366, Forum for Renaissance Studies, 2024
Om litterära krigsbyten i privatsamlares bibliotek: Exemplet Rålamb på Länna gård
Part of Biblis, p. 26-33, 2024
On Literary Spoils of War in Private Libraries.: The Case of Rålamb at Länna Gård
Part of Biblioteka, p. 15-29, 2024
All publications
Articles in journal
Om litterära krigsbyten i privatsamlares bibliotek: Exemplet Rålamb på Länna gård
Part of Biblis, p. 26-33, 2024
On Literary Spoils of War in Private Libraries.: The Case of Rålamb at Länna Gård
Part of Biblioteka, p. 15-29, 2024
Part of Mémoires du livre, p. 1-29, 2022
Resource Description and Access (RDA): Transcription and the Dilemma of a Rare Materials Cataloger
Part of Bibliothek und Wissenschaft, p. 279-285, 2022
Om statyer av lärda män i bibliotek
Part of Biblis, p. 10-21, 2022
Bokliga gåvor till Charles De Geers bibliotek på Leufstabruk
Part of Svenska Linnésällskapets årsskrift, p. 65-88, 2022
The Books of King Sigismund at Uppsala University Library
Part of Scando-Slavica, p. 213-223, 2022
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Part of Biblis, p. 38-49, 2022
Literary Spoils of War in Uppsala in Practice: Controversial Theology
Part of Biblioteka, p. 127-140, 2021
Att vara sen kan vara till fördel
Part of Biblioteksbladet, p. 34-39, 2020
The Reception of Books from Braniewo in the 17th-century Uppsala University Library
Part of Biblioteka, p. 101-116, 2020
Litterära krigsbyten i Uppsala och deras användning: En kontroversteologi
Part of Lychnos, p. 259-268, 2020
Litterära krigbytens öden i Sverige
Part of Biblis, p. 20-26, 2020
Om böckernas ordning i Uppsala universitetsbiblioteks första byggnad
Part of Biblis, p. 65-71, 2019
On the Order of the Books in the First Uppsala University Library Building
Part of Journal of Jesuit Studies, p. 315-326, 2019
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Books from Poznań at the Uppsala University Library
Part of The Central European Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanities (CEJSH), p. 319-328, 2017
Transcription in Rare Books Cataloging
Part of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, p. 377-383, 2016
Freden i Oliwa och restitutionen av bokliga krigbyten
Part of Biblis, p. 20-23, 2014
Kungapanegyrisk poesi och paratext hos Petrus Lagerlöf
Part of Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, p. 51-64, 2012
Part of Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning, p. 51-112, 2010
Forskning om musikteori från 1600-talet
Part of Musikbiblioteksnytt, p. 9, 2010
Prudentius in Sweden: Reception in a Medal Device
Part of Eranos, p. 44-52, 2010
Part of Karolinska förbundets årsbok, p. 7-30, 2009
Harald Vallerius: Om musikens förmåga att väcka våra affekter
Part of Tidig musik, p. 24-25, 2009
Ovidius, Karl IX och Göteborgs grundläggande
Part of Svensk numismatisk tidskrift, p. 104-108, 2009
The Early Latin Poetry of Sylvester Johannis Phrygius
Part of Årsbok / Kungl. Vetenskaps-societeten i Uppsala, p. 125-126, 2008
Books
Looted Libraries, Looted Books: The Swedish Case
Brill Academic Publishers, 2024
The Music Theory of Harald Vallerius: Three Dissertations from 17th-century Sweden
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2012
Bröllop hos Schefferus och andra dikter av Petrus Lagerlöf
Lagerlöfska släktföreningen, 2010
Chapters in book
Part of Reading, Writing, Translating, p. 343-355, Faculty of Humanities and Theology, Lund University, 2024
Part of Medicina Mentis, p. 351-366, Forum for Renaissance Studies, 2024
Part of Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book, p. 143-179, Brill Academic Publishers, 2024
Useful Literary Spoils of War from Riga at Uppsala University Library
Part of The Baltic Battle of Books, p. 197-213, Brill Academic Publishers, 2023
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A Battle of Books through Five Cenuries
Part of The Baltic Battle of Books, p. 1-10, Brill Academic Publishers, 2023
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Some Notes on Charles de Geer’s Working Library
Part of A Warm Scent of Books, p. 63-70, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2023
Det första universitetsbiblioteket
Part of Uppsala universitetsbibliotek 1621–2021, p. 417-432, Uppsala universitetsbibliotek, 2021
Latin as a Language of Early Modern Musicology.: Three Treatises from 17th Century Sweden
Part of Musiktheorie in Mitteleuropa / in der Slowakei im 16.−19. Jahrhundert – Music Theory in Central Europe / in Slovakia in 16th – 19th Centuries, p. 9-14, Slavistický ústav Jána Stanislava SAV Pedagogická fakulta Univerzity Komenského, 2021
Dedicatory Practices in Early Uppsala Dissertations
Part of Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context, p. 681-702, Brill Academic Publishers, 2021
Losy księgozbiorów zagrabionych w czasazh wojen szwedzkich w XVII w
Part of Kolekcje prywatne w zbiorach książki dawnej, p. 252-264, Ossolineum, 2020
Mot studenternas missbruk av boktryckarkonsten
Part of Att dikta för livet, döden och evigheten, p. 515-527, Makadam Förlag, 2020
The Congratulatory Poetry of Petrus Lagerlöf: Functions, Social Patterns, and Characteristic Ideas
Part of Early Modern Academic Culture, p. 117-137, Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, 2019
REDEVNT SATVRNIA REGNA: Ulrika Eleonora och guldåldersmyten
Part of Samlad glädje 2019, p. 275-277, Numismatiska klubben i Uppsala, 2019
Das sogenannte Notizbuch von Kopernikus
Part of Faszination Stadt, p. 623-624, Sandstein Verlag, 2019
Bokliga krigsbyten som kulturtransfer?
Part of Kulturarvsperspektiv, p. 141-149, Uppsala universitetsbibliotek, 2018
Tidigmoderna dissertationer i Sverige - en överblick
Part of Läroverkssamlingen i ljuset, p. 9-13, Almedalsbiblioteket, 2017
Two Pieces on the War in Skåne by Petrus Lagerlöf
Part of God latin., Københavns Universitet. Forum for Renæssancestudier, 2017
Petrus Lagerlöf Instructing on Gothicism
Part of Apotheosis of the North., p. 63-75, Walter de Gruyter, 2017
Polish collections at Uppsala University Library: A history of research
Part of Książka dawna i jej właściciele, p. 237-244, Wydawnictwo Ossolineum, 2017
Den unika boken / The Unique Book
Part of För en tunna rågmiöll. En utställning om bokband, ägande och bruk / For a Barrel of Rye Flour. An Exhibition on Bookbindings, Ownership and Use of Books, Uppsala universitetsbibliotek, 2012
Part of Opus mixtum, p. 231-255, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2009
Att förvalta ett arv: Dissertationerna på Södertörn, nylatin och exemplet Harald Vallerius
Part of En bok om böcker och bibliotek, p. 95-119, Södertörns högskola, 2009
Collections (editor)
A Warm Scent of Books: Private Libraries at Leufstabruk and Beyond
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2023
Brill Academic Publishers, 2023
Kulturarvsperspektiv: Texter från en seminarieserie om specialsamlingar i Sverige
Uppsala universitetsbibliotek, 2018
Bevara för framtiden: Texter från en seminarieserie om specialsamlingar
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2016
Conference papers
Part of Acta conventus Neo-Latini Upsaliensis, p. 995-1005, 2012
Monograph doctoral thesis
Reports
Other
Part of Historische Zeitschrift, p. 408-410, 2022
Part of European history quarterly, p. 583-584, 2021
Swedish Book History. Age of Reformation and Confessionalization
Part of European history quarterly, p. 583-584, 2021
Part of Neo-Latin News, p. 168-170, 2016
Hauge, Peter, 'The Temple of Music' by Robert Fludd (Farnham: Ashgate 2011), 315 pp.
Part of Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning, p. 115-118, 2012
Part of Sjuttonhundratal, p. 115-116, 2009