Samuel Wide


Samuel Karl Anders Wide was a Swedish classical archaeologist, ancient historian and philologist.
In 1888 he received his PhD in Greek language and literature from Uppsala University. In 1895 he became a professor of classical languages at the University of Lund, attaining a similar position at Uppsala in 1899. In 1909 he became the first professor of classical archaeology and ancient history at the University of Uppsala.
In 1893–95, he travelled extensively throughout Italy and Greece. In the summer of 1894, with Lennart Kjellberg, he performed excavatory work of the Sanctuary of Poseidon on the island of Kalaureia. This was considered to be the first Swedish archaeological excavation in Greece. Later the same year, he conducted an excavation at Aphidna in Attica.

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