Uppsala University
Uppsala University
| Swedish | Uppsala universitet (Universitas Regia Upsaliensis, or the older Academia Regia Upsaliensis in Latin.)
|
| Motto | Gratiae veritas naturae
|
| Established | 1477
|
| School type | Public University
|
| Rector magnificus | Prof. Uppsala, Sweden
|
| Enrollment | 39,100 undergraduate
2,400 post-graduate
|
| Faculty | 3,800 (out of 5,800 employees)
|
| Member | Coimbra Group, EUA
|
| Homepage | http://www.uu.se/
|
</div>
</div>
Uppsala University or Uppsala universitet is a state university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the oldest university in Scandinavia.
Founding and Early History
As with most medieval universities, Uppsala University initially grew out of an ecclesiastical center. The archbishopric of Uppsala had been one of the most important sees in Sweden since Christianity first spread to this region in the ninth century. Uppsala had also long been a hub for regional trade, and had contained human settlements dating back into the deep recesses of the Middle Ages. As was also the case with most medieval universities, Uppsala had initially been chartered through a papal bull. Uppsala’s bull, which granted the university its corporate rights, was issued by Pope Sixtus IV in 1477, and established a number of provisions. Among the most important of these was that the university was officially given the same freedoms and privileges as the University of Bologna. This included the right to establish the four traditional faculties of theology, canon law and Roman law, medicine, and philosophy, and to award the bachelors, masters, licentiate, and doctorate degrees. The archbishop of Uppsala was also named as the university’s chancellor, and was charged with the duty to ensure that the rights and privileges of the university and its members were preserved.
Faculties and organization
- Faculty of Arts*
- Faculty of Social Sciences*
- Faculty of Languages*
- Faculty of Science and Technology*
- Faculty of Theology
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Pharmacy**
- Faculty of Education and Teaching Professions***
- *These four are derived from the original Philosophical Faculty.
- **The Faculty of Pharmacy was originally an independent school in Stockholm, later moved to Uppsala and incorporated with the university.
- ***Formerly a department of Education, it was in 199x raised to the status of a faculty in its own right.
The engineering programs have from 1982 been marketed as the Uppsala School of Engineering (Uppsala Tekniska Högskola). This was however never a separate institution, but only a unit within the Faculty of Science and Technology and use of the term has been phased out after the Faculty of Natural Sciences was renamed the Faculty of Sciences and Technology in the 1990s. See also the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory. The university library is called Carolina Rediviva.
Notable people connected to Uppsala University (very incomplete)
Nobel laureates who have studied or worked at the university
Sorted according to year of birth. Includes peace and literature prizes.
Other scientists
- Olaus Rudbeckius (1630-1702), medicine
- Olaus Rudbeckius, junior (1660-1740), botanist
- Anders Celsius (1701-1744), astronomer
- Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778), botanist, the father of taxonomy
- Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828), botanist
- Daniel Solander (1733-1782), botanist
- Pehr Kalm (1716-1779), botanist
- Elias Magnus Fries, botanist
- Jöns Jacob Berzelius, chemist
- Nils Gabriel Sefström, chemist
- Anders Jonas Ångström, physicist
- Knut Johan Ångström, physicist
- Oskar Backlund (1846-1916), astronomer
- Helge von Koch (1870-1924), mathematician
- Svante Pääbo, evolutionary biologist
Humanities and social sciences
- Eli F. Heckscher, economic historian
- Bernhard Karlgren, sinologist
- Henrik Samuel Nyberg, orientalist
Technical innovators and industrialists
Art and literature
