Lund University

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The main administrative building at Lund University.

Lund University or Lunds universitet is a university founded in 1666, in Lund, Sweden. The university has over 34,000 people studying in 50 different programmes and 800 separate courses.

History

Although there were anterior academic institutions, a studium generale, the mediaeval Latin language term for a university, was established in 1483 within the Franciscan friary, and prior to this in 1085, a school for the training of priests was set up. The university was established in 1666, as the fourth one within the Swedish Realm. Today, it counts as its second, since the Academy of Dorpat (1632) and the Academy of Åbo (1640), are located in Estonia and Finland. Uppsala University was the first to be established in 1477.

Faculties

• Technology (Lund Institute of Technology)
• Science
• Law
• Social Sciences (including the Lund School of Economics and Management)
• Medicine
• Liberal Arts and Theology
• Performing Arts (the Academies of Music, Art, and Theatre)

There are also departments located in Malmö and Helsingborg.

Famous Research

• Janne Rydberg discovered the Rydberg formula at Lund University in 1888
• Medical ultrasonography in echocardiography of the heart was pioneered by Inge Edler and Carl Hellmuth Hertz in cooperation between the department of cardiology and the department of electrical measurements in 1953

See also: Royal Swedish Physiographic Society in Lund, List of universities in Sweden

External links

• Lund University - Official site
• Lund Institute of Technology - Official site
• Lund School of Economics and Management - Official site

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