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Swedish ethnologist

Carl Wilhelm von Sydow (21 December – 4 March ) 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.

Early life and education

The son of Ludvig von Sydow, an agricultural school administrator, and Friherrin Göthilda Rappe, von Sydow was born in Ryssby and educated in Växjö; he entered Lund University as a student in and earned his master's degree in with a study of the legend of Finn and his wife and his doctorate in with a thesis titled Två spinnsagor—en studie i jämförande folksagoforskning (Two Spinning Legends—A Study in the Comparative Study of Folk Legends).^[1][2][3] During his university studies, he taught at folk high schools and met the Danish folklorist Henning Frederik Feilberg, who inspired him to begin collecting folk tales.

In he published Våra folkminnen—Folks