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Carl Wilhelm von Sydow
Swedish ethnologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carl Wilhelm von Sydow (21 December 1878 – 4 March 1952) was a Swedish folklore scholar. A professor at Lund University, he was a pioneer of folklore studies in Sweden and contributed to establishing systematic methods in the field.
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