Bo Lönnqvist

Bo Hjalmar Lönnqvist (born 29 September 1941) is a Finland Swede ethnologist and one of Finland's foremost scholars in the field. He is known for his research combining detailed empirical work with theoretical curiosity, covering Finland-Swedish traditions, folk costume, children's culture, manor house culture, industrial environments and ethnicity.

Biography

Early life and education Lönnqvist grew up in Nordsjö in Helsinge parish and showed an early interest in folk culture in Nyland. Already at the age of 15 he was collecting ethnological material and serving as a local correspondent for the National Board of Antiquities' ethnological questionnaires from 1956 to 1964.

He is the brother of Barbara Lönnqvist.

Selected bibliography Dräkt och mode i ett landsbygdssamhälle 1870–1920 (1972) Finländskt herrgårdsliv (1978) Suomenruotsalaiset (1981) Folkkulturens skepnader. Till folkdräktens genealogi (1991) Ting, rum och barn (1992) Bakelser. En studie i lyxens kulturella formspråk (1997) Industrisamhälle och arbetarkultur (1998) Gränsfolkets barn (with A.-M. Åström & Y. Lindqvist, 2001) En finsk adelssläkts öden. Standertskjöld – Standertskjöld-Nordenstam (2006) Maktspel i kläder (2008)

Awards 1993 – State Prize for Information Dissemination 2001 – SFV Cultural Prize 2002 – State Prize for Information Dissemination 2003 – Bergbomska priset 2014 – Tollanderska priset