In addition to the Exercitiae, other sports have had a presence in Uppsala`s student life. The Upsala Simsällskap, “Uppsala Swimming Society”, the oldest swimming club in the world, was founded in 1796 by the mathematician Jöns Svanberg. It had no formal affiliation with the university, but all its early members came from university life. Svanberg even held a mock graduation ceremony, a simulation promotion, parody of university ceremonies, where those who had completed their swimming training received master`s (master`s) and bachelor`s (candidate) “diplomas”. These diplomas remained, and Swedish swimming schools still use these diplomas for different levels of swimming ability. The turbulent period of King Gustav Vasa`s Reformation led to a decline in the already relatively insignificant number of students at Uppsala, seen as a center of Catholicism and potential disloyalty to the crown. Swedish students usually went to one of Germany`s Protestant universities, especially Wittenberg. There is some evidence of university studies in Uppsala during the 16th century; the Faculty of Theology is mentioned in a document of 1526, King Eric XIV appointed Laurentius Petri Gothus (later archbishop) rector of the university in 1566, and his successor and brother John III appointed a number of professors in the period from 1569 to 1574. By the end of the century, the situation had changed and Uppsala became a bastion of Lutheranism, which Duke Charles, the third son of Gustav Vasa, who eventually became king (like Charles IX), used to consolidate his power and eventually oust his nephew Sigismund from the throne. The Uppsala Assembly in 1593 established Lutheran Orthodoxy in Sweden, and Charles and the Council of State granted the university new privileges on August 1 of that year. The present Akademiska sjukhuset was founded in 1850 by the organizational merger of the district hospital and the university hospital, and a new building was inaugurated in 1867 on the hill under Uppsala Castle to the southeast. From this building, which is still in use, the current hospital complex has expanded.
Most university bachelor`s degrees are taught in Swedish, although some courses, mainly at postgraduate level, are taught in English. The unions active at the university also have three representatives in the consistory; These members have the right to speak, but not the right to vote. Uppsala is a multi-campus university with campuses such as the Biomedical Center, one of Europe`s largest life sciences located on a former military base, and another on the island of Gotland, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and popular Swedish holiday destination with miles of pristine beaches. Many well-known Swedish writers studied in Uppsala: Georg Stiernhielm (1598-1672) is often considered the father of Swedish poetry. The poet and composer Carl Michael Bellman (1740-1795), undoubtedly the most popular and well-known Swedish poet of the 18th century. He was enrolled in the nineteenth century, but left university after less than a year. The writer, historian and composer Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783-1847), professor of history, and the poet Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790-1855), professor of poetry, were major figures of Swedish Romanticism of the early 19th century. The unfortunate experiences of student life in Uppsala by writer and playwright August Strindberg (1849-1912) led to his Från Fjärdingen och Svartbäcken (1877), a collection of short stories set in Uppsala (“Aus Fjärdingen und Svartbäcken”, the title refers to two districts of Uppsala). Other alumni of Uppsala are the poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864-1931), who rejected the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1918 but received it posthumously in 1931, the writer and playwright Pär Lagerkvist (1891-1974), Nobel Prize winner in 1951, and the poet and novelist Karin Boye (1900-1941), who gave her name to a branch of the university library.
Communist leader Ture Nerman (1886-1969) wrote a novel called Olympen, based on his experiences as a student at Uppsala. Niklas Zennström, co-founder of KaZaA and Skype, is also an alumnus of Uppsala University. On 15 August 2008, Zennström donated SEK 15 million to Uppsala University for climate research. [29] The late Jan Stenbeck, a Nordic media magnate who controlled the Modern Times Group, was also a graduate of Uppsala University. The medieval university had been primarily a school of theology. The aspirations of the new emerging great power, Sweden, demanded a different way of learning. Sweden developed both by conquests and by a complete overhaul of its administrative structure. This required a much larger class of civil servants and educators than before. During this period, preparatory schools, high schools were also founded in various cathedral cities, especially in Västerås (the first) in 1623. In addition to Uppsala, new universities were founded in more remote parts of the Swedish Empire, the University of Dorpat (now Tartu) in Estonia (1632) and the University of Åbo in Finland (1640).
After the conquest of the provinces spared by Denmark, Lund University was founded in 1666. Since the last reorganization in 1999, the University has its own body, the Academic Senate, which is a larger but mainly advisory group of professors/researchers and students. The Director General of the University is the Rector Magnificus, whose Deputy Rector is the Vice-Rector. There are (also since 1999) three Vice-Presidents, each of whom heads one of the three “disciplinary fields” (humanities and social sciences, medicine and pharmacy, and science and technology), into which the nine faculties are divided. Each faculty has a faculty council and is headed by a dean. The position of Dean is held on a part-time basis by a professor of the faculty. Like most medieval universities, Uppsala University first emerged from an ecclesiastical center. The Archdiocese of Uppsala has been one of Sweden`s most important episcopal sees since Christianity first spread to the region in the ninth century. Uppsala was also a hub of regional trade for a long time and contained settlements from the early Middle Ages. Like most medieval universities, Uppsala was originally chartered by a papal bull. The Bull of Uppsala, which granted the university its corporate rights, was issued by Pope Sixtus IV in 1477 and established a number of regulations. Among the most important was that the university officially received the same freedoms and privileges as the University of Bologna.
This included the right to establish the four traditional faculties of theology, law (canon law and Roman law), medicine and philosophy, and to award bachelor`s, master`s, licentiate and doctoral degrees. The Archbishop of Uppsala was also appointed Chancellor of the University and charged with safeguarding the rights and privileges of the University and its members. [7] As a gifted scientist, architect and engineer, Rudbeck was the dominant figure in the university in the late 17th century. He is perhaps best known today for the pseudo-historical speculations of his Atlantica, which took much of his later life. When large parts of Uppsala burned down in 1702, Gustavianum, which housed the university library and its many precious manuscripts, escaped the fire; Local tradition says that the aging Rudbeck stood on the roof and directed the firefighting work. In the late 16th and early 17th centuries (and perhaps even earlier), the university was located in the former chapter house parallel to the south side of the cathedral, which was later renamed Academia Carolina. Between 1622 and 1625, a new university building was built to the east of the cathedral, the so-called Gustavianum, named after the reigning king. In the 1630s, the total number of students was about a thousand.
Uppsala University (Swedish: Uppsala universitet) is a university located in Uppsala, Sweden. It was founded in 1477 and is the oldest university in Sweden and all the Nordic countries still in operation. [4] In recent years, it has ranked among the top 100 universities in the world in several leading international rankings. [5] The university uses “Gratiae veritas naturae” as its motto and includes the natural sciences. Uppsala University currently ranks 138th in our ranking of universities of law and political science. It is also ranked 2nd in the university ranking for Sweden. Another magnificent royal donation was that of the large baroque garden of the castle, which Gustav III donated to the university when it was obvious that the old botanical garden was not enough. A new large winter garden was built by architect Louis Jean Desprez. Meanwhile, other plots of land were added in addition to the baroque garden. The former garden of Rudbeck and Linnaeus was largely abandoned, but was rebuilt between 1918 and 1923 to Linnaeus` specifications in his 1745 work Hortus Upsaliensis. The university hospital is actually older than the university, as it dates back to the first hospital, founded in Uppsala in 1302 and merged with the university hospital much later. This was used for 400 years, until the great fire of 1702, which destroyed much of central Uppsala.
A new hospital, which later became the Uppsala District Hospital, was built in its place, but left the city in 1811. Student singers descend the stairs of Carolina Rediviva to mark the university`s 400th anniversary in 1877. The “Trappmarschen”, in which the singers led the audience on a march out of the hall where the concert took place, is an annual tradition that was later moved to the new main building of the university, completed in 1887.