Eugène Napoleon Tigerstedt (usually known as E.N. Tigerstedt) was born April 28, 1907 in Warsaw and died June 27, 1979 on the island of Samos in Greece. He was a Finnish-Swedish academic. In his lifetime, Tigerstedt was one of the leading and most respected literary historians in Scandinavia and is best known internationally for his contributions to Plato scholarship. Between 1956 and 1973 he was Professor of Literary History with Poetics (later 'Literature') at Stockholm University. He was also active as a literary critic at the Svenska Dagbladet ('Swedish Daily').