Carl Gustaf Grimberg (22 September 1875 in Gothenburg, Sweden – 11 June 1941 in Djursholm) was a Swedish historian.
His parents were Joel Grimberg and Charlotta (née Andersson). In 1919 he married Eva Carlsdotter Sparre (1895–1982).
Grimberg's most famous work is his history of Sweden, Svenska folkets underbara öden (1913-1924). In 1926 Grimberg began to publish his history of the world, Världshistoria, but he did not finish it before his death.
The first Norwegian edition of Grimberg's world history was entitled Menneskenes Liv og Historie, and was published in the years 1955–1962. The publication consisted of 22 volumes. After the mention of the Neanderthals, the history of the world is reproduced from ancient Egypt until the end of the Second World War.
| # | Title | Contents | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Egypt–Near East | The morning of culture
The Egyptians Babylonians and Assyrians |
1958 |
| 2 | Near East–Hellas | Assyrian and Babylonian culture
Hittites and Syrian people Medes and Persians The Aegean culture The legendary age of the Hellenes. The patriarchal kingship |
1959 |
| 3 | Greece | Economic and social upheavals in Greece
Ionian culture, poetry and philosophy The first great test of power between East and West Pericles' Happy Age War between brothers The first heyday of science The ancient Attic comedy |
1959 |
| 4 | Greece–Rome | Greece's political decline
Macedonian hegemony Hellenism Italy before the Romans Rome's saga time Rome's era of heroes and glory |
1959 |
| 5 | Rome | Rome's era of heroes and glory
The oldest Roman literature The time of revolution |
1959 |
| 6 | Rome | The Imperial Age
The world empire is beginning to unravel at the seams |
1959 |
| 7 | The migrations | The great Germanic migrations
Luminous figures in dark centuries The Arab migration Carolingian era Viking trains |
1959 |
| 8 | The Crusades | The German Empire is resurrected and experiences a new era of glory
The Crusades From the world of thought of the time of the Crusades to religious emotional life |
1960 |
| 9 | War of the Hanseatic League | The role of the Empire in the Middle Ages has been played out
A period of decline for the papacy as well Italy's literary heyday The Anglo-French Hundred Years' War The Wars of the Roses |
1960 |
| 10 | The Renaissance | The cross and the crescent moon
The Spanish unitary state emerges From late medieval thinking Italian Renaissance Renaissance art in Italy |
1960 |
| 11 | Discoveries–Reformation | Renaissance and humanism north of the Alps
Emperor Charles V's time. The great reformers |
1960 |
| 12 | Charles V.–Philip II. | Emperor Charles V's time. The Turk father and Henry VIII's England
The great naturalists of the Reformation era A shining century for South European fiction The heyday of Spanish painting Philip II and his time The heyday of Dutch, Flemish and Dutch art |
1960 |
| 13 | The Wars of Religion | The Huguenot Wars
England at the end of the 16th century The last great religious war England at the beginning of the 17th century |
1960 |
| 14 | The age of Louis XIV | When the great thinkers were natural scientists and mathematicians
The age of Louis XIV |
1960 |
| 15 | The War of the Spanish Succession, Russia and Poland, England in the 18th century | The age of Louis XIV. The War of the Spanish Succession
Russia's oldest history Peter 1. and the Nordic War Poland's oldest history England take the lead |
1961 |
| 16 | English and French intellectual life in the 18th century, America–India | A great time in English cultural history
North America India L´ancien régime in France |
1961 |
| 17 | Turkey, Austria and Prussia, the French Revolution | Turkey, Austria and Prussia
Storm over the empire Liberty, Equality and Fraternity |
1961 |
| 18 | Napoleon–Victoria | Napoleon's eagles
Iron, coal, cotton and machinery Reaction and revolution |
1961 |
| 19 | Liberalism–nationalism | The Communist Manifesto
"To wake up among the stars" "Only soldiers help against democrats" Victorians Louis Napoleon Storm over Crimea The Second Empire Excursion to Italy The turning point Fatherland in danger The North American Civil War |
1961 |
| 20 | Imperialism–democracy | The dollar princes
The White Man's Burden The long peace "Now the lights go out" |
1961 |
| 21 | Our own time | The period 1914-1945
"Beautiful New World" |
1961 |
| 22 | Historical atlas. Main register | Ancient times
The Middle Ages Recent times Our own century |
1962 |
| I | China, Japan, Korea | China
Japan Korea |
1969 |
| II | India and Southeast Asia | India
Ceylon Back India Indonesia |
1969 |
| III | Africa | The first people and the settlement of Africa
Civilization and the spread of culture Foreign rule and Berber travel in North Africa The Negro kingdoms south of the Sahara Trade and colonization in East Africa The kingdoms south of the rainforest The slave trade in West Africa Colonization of tropical Africa Resistance and conquest in North Africa European rule in southern Africa Colonial times in tropical Africa Decolonization Independent Africa |
1970 |
| IV | Latin America | 1974 | |
| V | North America | 1977 | |
| 23 | The duel without end.
International politics after 1945. ISBN 82-02-02728-4 |
The Atomic Age
From cooperation to cold war Strength test in Europe Test of strength in the East Uneasy coexistence Towards the edge of the abyss Unstable balance The Second Vietnam War The Middle East between East and West "The Middle Kingdom" and "The Kingdom in the Middle" |
1973 |
| 24 | The rich societies.
The Western countries and Japan after 1945. ISBN 82-02-02731-4 |
The world of the ship
USA – The new world power Canada - America's Northerners Great Britain - A world power on food councils The renewed France The dwarf midget West Germany Year 0 The Nordic countries - Democracy's laboratories The sunny side The Pacific World The new industrial society |
1974 |
| 25 | The world of revolution and hunger.
International politics after 1945. ISBN 82-02-02734-9 |
The Second World Power – the Soviet Union
The Other Europe – Eastern Bloc China – A third superpower? The Third World The world of Allah and oil East of Suez East of the Sahara The Other America – Latin America North and South |
1974 |
