Background
Nyber was born in Söderbärke in Southern Dalecarlia (Sweden) on 28 December 1889.
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There, he studied from Classical languages to Sanskrit and to the Semitic idioms.
Career
When he was 19, he moved to Uppsala to undertake university courses. Nyberg set up the Middle Persian curriculum as a possible subject of study at the University of Uppsala and he felt the need for teaching it by meeting Western scholarly standards. Nyberg’s single most important contribution to the study of Iranian religions is his Irans forntida religioner (1937).
Overall, Nyberg was a scholar of extremely broad interests, competent in a number of different fields, both in Semitic and Iranian studies.
Membership
Swedish Academy; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]
He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1943, and of the Swedish Academy (on seat number 3) from 1947.
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Sweden