Frederik Poulsen

Born in 1876 and dying in 1950, he was a Danish archaeologist, writer, and art historian whose full name was Poul Frederik Sigfred Poulsen. He studied at the University of Copenhagen and, early in his career, also spent time in Germany studying with major classicists and archaeologists.

He worked for many years at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, from 1910 to 1942, and served as its director from 1926. Reference sources describe him as both a classical archaeologist and a writer, and note that his research ranged from early Greek art to the Etruscans.

Alongside his museum work, he published widely for both specialist and broader audiences. His best-known scholarly work is often identified as Der Orient und die frühgriechische Kunst (1912), and biographical sources also note his interest in autobiography and literary writing.