Paul Åström

Paul Åström (January 15, 1929 – October 4, 2008) was a Swedish archaeologist and classical scholar. He was a professor at the University of Gothenburg and director of the Swedish institutes in Athens and Rome. He is mostly known for his achievements in the prehistoric archaeology of Cyprus.

In 1958 he became the director of the Swedish Institute at Athens where he remained until 1963. Then he taught at University of Missouri (1963-1964) and became the director of the Swedish Institute at Rome (1967-1969). In 1969 he took up a professorship in ancient culture and social life at the University of Gothenburg. He was dean of the historical-philosophical section 1974-1980 and for the Faculty of Humanities 1975-1980 prior to his retirement from the university in 1993.

Åström formed his own publishing company, Astrom Editions in 1962. He held honorary doctorates from the University of Vienna (1994), the University of Athens (1995) and the University of Ioannina (2001).

Selected works The Middle Cypriote Bronze Age (1957) Hala Sultan Tekke: 8, Excavations 1971-79 (1983) Kairos: Studies in Art History and Literature (1988)