Gurli Taube

1890–1980.

Librarian, writer.

Gurli Taube worked as an administrative assistant at the university Library, became librarian in 1944, first librarian in 1953 and director of Map and poster department.

Taube published a series of historical works, for example from an Uppsala of the past (1950) and A past Uppsala (1966).

Gurli Taube also wrote the cultural history texts in A photographic work of Uppsala (1954).

 

Burial site: 0217-1214

Image description: Gurli Taube when Gabriela Mistral came to visit, Uppsala 1945. Photo: Uppsala-Bild / Upplandsmuseet . [The image is cropped]
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