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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