Brita Malmer

Brita Ingrid Maria Malmer (1 June 1925 – 8 May 2013), was a Swedish numismatist who specialized in the Viking Age. She was Sweden's first professor of numismatics.

Biography

Malmer was born in Malmö, where her father, Svante Alenstam, was a schoolteacher. Having graduated from high school in 1945, she studied history, archaeology, classical studies, art history and pedagogy at Lund University, and earned her bachelor's degree 1949. She received her licentiate degree in 1953 and her PhD in 1966 with a dissertation on the oldest Hedeby coins, Nordiska mynt före år 1000.

Malmer was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities in 1981 and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1986; honorary fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society in 1998.

She was married to the professor of archeology Mats P. Malmer; their daughter, Elin Malmer, is a historian. Brita and Mats Malmer are both buried at Lidingö Cemetery.