Lund University

Lund University (Swedish: Lunds universitet) is a university in Lund in southernmost Sweden. The university was founded in 1666 and is the second oldest within Sweden's present borders.

History

Lund has a long history as a center for learning and was the ecclesiastical centre and seat of the archbishop of Denmark, who before the reformation was primate for all of Scandinavia. A cathedral school for the training of clergy was established in 1085 and still exists as a gymnasium (secondary school). A first university or studium generale was established in 1483 within the Franciscan friary, but seems to have left little trace.

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Denmark - Reformation - Primate - Scandinavia - Gymnasium - Studium generale - 1483 - Franciscan - Friary

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The present university was established in 1666, as a part of the ultimately successful aspiration to assimilate the provinces recently (1658) acquired from Denmark. Although the second oldest university within the present borders of Sweden, at its foundation it was actually the fifth university under the Swedish king:

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1666 - 1658

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• in 1477, Uppsala University was founded;
• in 1632, Academia Gustaviana had been founded in Dorpat, today in Estonia;
• in 1640, the Academy of Åbo was founded in Turku, today in Finland;
• in 1648, with the Peace of Westphalia, also the University of Greifswald, today in Germany, came under the Swedish Crown.