# Talk:Arne Furumark

One of my mentors during my undergrad studies told me a story about Arne that he had had from his mentor back in the day. Arne had taken some students of Classical Archaeology on a field trip to the Argolid in the late 1970s, when a discussion on the prospects of a Danish Institute at Athens (which was at the time yet not existent) became heated. Arne was not a fan of the idea, and, being a well-known Nazi-sympathizer in the 1940s, angrily exclaimed "One cannot trust the Danes! They are worse than the Jews!" 81.227.254.52 (talk) 20:05, 10 July 2025 (UTC)

He suffered from a skin condition throughout his life, which left him shy and socially isolated.
Could you clarify whether “he” refers to Furumark or his father?
He later said that this visit encouraged him to change his studies to archaeology, and he entered Uppsala University in Sweden in 1925, where he studied a wide humanities curriculum including classical archaeology, philosophy and theology, and eventually came to study under the Mycenaean archaeologist Axel W. Persson, under whom he took part in excavations in Greece.
I found this sentence to be a bit long and wondered if it might benefit from being split.
*Could Late Bronze Age be linked at least once in the body?

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A few suggestions above, now that the article has been expanded. I hope they've been useful. MSincccc (talk) 09:20, 25 July 2025 (UTC)

UndercoverClassicist
Just a small note — it’s still a little ambiguous whether the “he” refers to Furumark or his father. Not all readers may double-check, so a brief clarification could be helpful.
MSincccc (talk) 17:54, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

(I had the wrong sentence in a previous edit) Personally, I think the only logical antecedent is Furumark -- we have Josef Arne Gerdt Furumark was born on 26 September 1903, in the Norwegian capital of Kristiania (now Oslo), where his father worked as a businessman in the paper industry. He suffered from a skin condition throughout his life, which left him shy and socially isolated. If we meant the father, we would have restated that -- otherwise, standard English is that the subject remains the same. If other readers find it confusing, then the situation may change, but at the moment I don't think we should go too far to clarify what isn't obscure. UndercoverClassicist T·C 18:19, 26 July 2025 (UTC)