Stockholms nation

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Stockholms Nation
Uppsala University
Stockholms nation2.jpg
LocationDrottninggatan 11
753 10 UPPSALA
Sweden
Latin nameNatio Holmiensis
AbbreviationStocken
Established1649
Inspektor Tord Ekelöf
Membershipapprox. 4400
Website www.stockholms.se
The nation building in the early 1900s Uppsala plate 1 from NF 30 (1920) - Stockholms nation.jpg
The nation building in the early 1900s
The meeting and banquet hall of the nation in the 1880s Stockholms nationshus Nationssal 1880-t.jpg
The meeting and banquet hall of the nation in the 1880s

Stockholms nation is a student society and one of thirteen nations at Uppsala University. The nation has its origins in the mid-17th century and regards 1649 as its official date of foundation, although this is uncertain. A document in the archives mentions students enrolled in the nation in 1649, but this is a copy of an original that was lost in a fire in 1702, and the nation is mentioned in the protocols of the consistory (board) of the university from 1656 as having been in existence for three years, which would put the foundation date at about 1653. [1]

The old part of the nation building was designed by architect Johan Fredrik Åbom, and was completed in 1848. A new wing of the nation building, begun in 1961, is designed by modernist architect Peter Celsing. [2]

Former curators (chairmen) of the nation include the mathematician Gösta Mittag-Leffler, the economist Knut Wicksell and the author Gösta Knutsson. The songwriter Carl Michael Bellman was enrolled in Stockholms nation during his brief period as a student in Uppsala (1758–1759). [3]

Inspektors

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Notes

59°51′24″N17°38′03″E / 59.85667°N 17.63417°E / 59.85667; 17.63417


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