Sture Bolin

{{short description|Swedish university teacher and writer (1900-1963)}} '''Sture Bolin''' (1900–1962) was a Swedish historian whose most influential work focused on late Roman and early medieval trade routes, formulating an alternative to the Pirenne Thesis.<ref name=Boia>Lucian Boia (ed.), ''Great Historians of the Modern Age: An International Dictionary'' (New York, Westport and London, 1991), pp. 694-5.</ref>

He was born in Höganäs in 1900, and studied under Lauritz Weibull. In 1938 he became Professor of History at Lund University. He died in Lund in 1962.<ref name=Boia />

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