Erik Hallager (1945-2024)

The Swedish Institute at Athens is sad to announce that our long-term collaborator Erik Hallager passed away on August 18, 2024. Erik Hallager was an expert on Minoan archaeology and scripts. He took over as field director for the Swedish part of the Greek-Swedish excavations in Khania in 1973, and continued working within the project until this year, also in his capacity of Director of the Danish Institute at Athens and professor of Classical archaeology at Aarhus University 2004-2007.