F. Scott; Scandinavian History Expert
Franklin D. Scott, an expert on Scandinavian history who spent his retirement years as curator of the Nordic Collection at the Claremont Colleges’ Honnold Library, has died. He was 93.
Scott, who taught at Northwestern University from 1935 until he retired in 1969, died Aug. 30 in Claremont.
His expertise was appreciated in Scandinavia as well as in the United States. Among his awards were the Order of the North Star (knight in 1952 and commander in 1978) from Sweden and the Carl Sandburg Medal in 1981 in the United States.
Scott served as curator at the Claremont library from 1970 until his death, building one of the most renowned research collections on Scandinavia in North America.
Born in Cambridge, Mass., and brought up in Yankton, S.D., Scott earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago and his doctorate at Harvard University.
Scott is survived by a daughter, Karin Scott Gunn of Gloucester, Mass., a sister, Lavinia Scott of Claremont, and two granddaughters. His wife, Helen Giddings Scott, died in 1986.
The family has asked that any memorial donations be made to the Franklin D. Scott Fund for Migration Research, Department of History, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. 60208.
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