Gothenburg University

Gothenburg University, or Göteborgs universitet, is a university in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was founded as Göteborgs högskola (Gothenburg University College) in 1891 and has later absorbed several other, previously independent, institutions of higher education in the city. It became a full university with the merger of the University College with the Gothenburg School of Medicine (Medicinhögskolan i Göteborg) in 1954. Another part of the university is the originally separate Gothenburg School of Economics and Commercial Law. The Sahlgrenska University Hospital is associated with the university as a teaching hospital.

People

• Ernst Cassirer, philosopher
• Sture Allén, computer linguist, sometime permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy
• Bernhard Karlgren, sinologist
• Jan Eliasson (b. 1940), diplomat, graduate of the Gothenburg School of Economics and Commercial Law
• Percy Barnevik (b. 1941), industry leader, former CEO of Asea Brown Boveri; graduate of the Gothenburg School of Economics and Commercial Law