Albin Stark (1885-1960) was a Swedish architect, who was trained as an architect at the Tekniska Högskolan i Stockholm (the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Albin Stark started in 1909 together with Josef Östlihn an own architectural firm, Östlihn & Stark. During the 1910s it was a very productive architectural office in Stockholm. In the 1930s Albin Stark worked in the functionalism architecture.
Otto Frödin (1881-1953) was a Swedish archaeologist who worked with both ancient and medieval times. Frödin became a student in Uppsala in 1899 and Ph.D. in 1919. In 1905 he became pro tempore official at Statens historiska museum in Stockholm and in 1911 curator and director of the museum’s department of Stone Age and Bronze Age. Between 1921 and 1955 the largest and most extensive excavations of Alvastra Monastery took place, at first with the led by Otto Frödin and after his death in 1953 by Ingrid Swartling. After the Swedish Lutheran reformation in the 1530s, the monastery was demolished and it was never rebuilt.
