Lund University is a public research university in Sweden and one of northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the province of Scania, Sweden. It traces its roots back to 1425, when a Franciscan studium generale was founded in Lund. After Sweden won Scania from Denmark in the 1658 Treaty of Roskilde, the university was officially founded in 1666 on the location of the old studium generale next to Lund Cathedral.
Curt Weibull was a Swedish historian, educator and author.
Torbjörn Anders Nilsson is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Tore Hedin was a Swedish mass murderer, spree killer and police officer. The act perpetrated by Hedin, commonly known as Hurvamorden, is infamous for being the worst known act of spree killing in Swedish criminal history. The case remains infamous as well since Hedin, as a police officer, was for an extended period assigned to investigate his own first murder, as well as for employing a medium, both essentially unique for a Swedish homicide investigation.
Lauritz Ulrik Absalon Weibull was a Swedish professor and historian.
Martin Persson Nilsson was a Swedish philologist, mythographer, and a scholar of the Greek, Hellenistic and Roman religious systems. In his studies he combined literary evidence with archaeological evidence, linking historic and prehistoric evidence for the evolution of the Greek mythological cycles.
Hans Larsson was a Swedish Professor of Philosophy at Lund University, Sweden and a Member of the Swedish Academy (1925-1944), chair no. 15. He was known in Sweden as Kloke-Hans.
Ida Göthilda Nilsson was a Swedish artist (sculptor).
Per Erik Beskow was a Swedish biblical scholar, theologian, church historian, patrologist and associate professor at Lund University.
Gunnar Sandgren was a Swedish journalist, novelist and playwright.
August Wilhelm Malm was a Swedish zoologist, entomologist and malacologist. He was the first Director of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum.
Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, usually referred to as GAN, was a Swedish artist and writer. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Swedish modernist art movement.
Einar Jolin was a Swedish painter best known for his decorative and slightly naïve Expressionist style. After studying at Konstfack, Stockholm in 1906 and at the Konstnärsförbundet målarskola, Jolin and his friends Isaac Grünewald and Einar Nerman went to Paris for further studies at Henri Matisse's academy from 1908 to 1914.
Håkan Gustaf Nilsson is a Swedish footballer who plays as a forward for German 3. Liga club Wehen Wiesbaden.
Events from the year 1872 in Sweden
Events from the year 1840 in Sweden
Sven Gösta Nilsson was a Swedish theoretical physicist at the Lund Institute of Technology.
Marie Ann-Charlotte Dacke is a professor in the Lund Vision Group at Lund University in Sweden. She received an Ig Nobel Prize in 2013 for her work on the navigation system of dung beetles. She is also a panel member on the Swedish TV show Studio Natur, and was named best science communicator in Sweden during the 2012 Forskar Grand Prix.
Gustaf Axel C:son Ljunggren was a Swedish chemist.
Lennart Martin Jirlow was a Swedish painter and scenographer. He got his education at Konstfack and at the academy of arts in Florence. His first exhibition was in Stockholm in 1958, and after this he spent most of his time in France. Most of his motifs are inspired by everyday occurrences in the south of France and Paris, and also theatre was a popular subject within his work. He did portraits of Karl Gerhard, Maj-Britt Nilsson and Jarl Kulle. He also designed posters for Bocuse d'Or and Gröna Lund. Jirlow also worked with stage design and he helped with the staging of Spanska flugan at Vasateatern 1982, Gamle Adam at Vasateatern 1984 and Annie Get Your Gun at Chinateatern in 1990. He also made the film Utflykt i det sköna which was broadcast on SVT in 1980.
