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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Uppsala (541 words) |
 | Uppsala is the capital of Uppsala County (Uppsala Län), and Sweden's ecclesiastical centre, being the seat of Sweden's archbishop since 1164. |
| Uppsala County, or Uppsala län is a County or län on the eastern coast of Sweden. |
| Klingmark, Elisabeth: Gamla Uppsala, Svenska kulturminnen 59, Riksantikvarieämbetet. |
| Uppsala University - Definition, explanation (3466 words) |
| Uppsala’s bull, which granted the university its corporate rights, was issued by Pope Pope Sixtus IV in 1477, and established a number of provisions. |
| There is some evidence of academic studies in Uppsala during the 16th century; the Faculty of Theology is mentioned in a document from 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 1569-1574. |
| Other Uppsala alumni are the poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864-1931), who refused the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1918, but received it posthumously in 1931, the novelist and playwright Pär Lagerkvist (1891-1974), Nobel laureate in 1951, and the poet and novelist Karin Boye (1900-1941), for whom one branch of the university library has been named. |
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