University of Lund

The Université of Lund (in Swedish, Lunds universitet , LU) is a Swedish Université , based with Lund, in southernmost Sweden, and representing the greatest institution of teaching and research of the Scandinavian countries. Founded in 1666, it is the second older university in Sweden.

It gathers 7 departments, with additional campuses in the towns of Malmö and Helsingborg, with a total of more than 42.500 students in 50 different programs and 800 cours. It belongs to the European Ligue of the universities of research, like with the network Universitas 21.

The University of Lund includes/understands also the school of engineers Lunds Tekniska Högskola .

History

The city has a long tradition of teaching, and was the center eclesiastic as well as the seat of the archbishop of the Denmark. A school of cathedral (the Katedralskolan ) to train the clergy is established in 1085, and to date remains one of the oldest schools of Scandinavia.

A Studium Generale (medieval university) is founded in 1425, but must close in 1536 following the Protestant Réforme Danish.

After the Treated of Roskilde, in 1658, the Skåneland become the possession of the Crown of Sweden, which quickly founds there the University of Lund in 1666, like means of Suédification. It is then the fifth university of Sweden, after the Université of Uppsala (1477), the '' Academia Gustaviana '' (1632, today in Estonia), the Académie of Åbo (1640, today in Finland), and the Université of Greifswald (1648, today in Germany).

The university is initially named Academia Carolina after Charles X Gustave of Sweden. The name is formally used until the end of the 19th century, the name of University of Lund imposing itself then.

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Departments

Faculty of Letters
Faculty of Theology
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Right
Faculty of Natural science
Faculty of Social sciences
School of Lund of Economy and Management
Faculty of Engineering (Institute of Technology of Lund)
Academy of Performing arts and visual Arts (Academy of Music, Art, and Theater)

There also exists of other departments with Malmö, in particular the Academy of Music of Malmö, and in Helsingborg.

Famous students

Kilian Stobæus (1690-1742), doctor and naturalist Swedish
Carl von Linné (1707-1778), Swedish naturalist
Johan Gottschalk Wallerius (1709-1785), chemist and mineralogist Swedish
Bengt Lidner (1757-1793), Swedish poet
Erik Acharius (1757-1819), Swedish botanist
Thomas Thorild (1759-1808), poet, critic and philosopher Swedish
Per Georg Scheutz (1785-1873), inventive Swedish
Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt (1785-1874), Swedish entomologist
Otto Lindblad (1809-1864), type-setter Swedish
Martin Wiberg (1826-1905), inventive Swedish
Karl Basket Georg Siegbahn (1886-1978), Swedish physicist (Nobel Prize of physique 1924)
Fredrik Adam Smitt (1839-1904), Swedish zoologist
Ernst Wigforss, Swedish politician (1881-1977)
Göte Wilhelm Turesson (1892-1970), Swedish botanist
Frans Gunnar Bengtsson (1894-1954), Swedish writer
Tage Erlander (1901-1985), Swedish Prime Minister of 1946 to 1969
Per Wahlöö (1926-1975), Swedish writer
Hans Alfredson (1931-), Swedish actor and scenario writer
Ingvar Carlsson (1934-), Swedish Prime Minister of 1986 to 1991 and 1994 to 1996
Göran Sonnevi (1939-), Swedish poet
Boris Smeds (1944-), Swedish engineer

See too

in Swedish Official site

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