The University of Gothenburg is a university in Sweden's second largest city,Gothenburg. Founded in 1891,the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and,with 53,624 students and 6,707 staff members,it is one of the largest universities in the Nordic countries.
Arvid Carlsson was a Swedish neuropharmacologist who is best known for his work with the neurotransmitter dopamine and its effects in Parkinson's disease. For his work on dopamine,Carlsson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000,together with Eric Kandel and Paul Greengard.
Curt Weibull was a Swedish historian,educator and author.
Lauritz Ulrik Absalon Weibull was a Swedish professor and historian.
Paul Russell is a professor in philosophy at Lund University,where he is Director of the Lund/Gothenburg Responsibility Project [LGRP]. His position at Lund is a half-time research position and has been made possible thanks to a major grant from the Swedish Research Council for "the international recruitment of leading researchers" (2014). Prior to his current position at Lund University he has held positions as Professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia,and at Gothenburg University.
Sir David Mackenzie Wilson,FBA is a British archaeologist,art historian,and museum curator,specialising in Anglo-Saxon art and the Viking Age. From 1977 until 1992 he served as the Director of the British Museum,where he had previously worked,from 1955 to 1964,as an assistant keeper. In his role as director of the museum,he became embroiled in the controversy over the ownership of the Elgin Marbles with the Greek government,engaging with a "disastrous" televised debate with Greek Minister of Culture Melina Mercouri.
Åke Joel Ohlmarks was a Swedish author,translator and scholar of philology,linguistics and religious studies. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Greifswald from 1941 to 1945,where he founded the institute for religious studies together with the Deutsche Christen member Wilhelm Koepp. His most notable contribution to the field is his 1939 study of Shamanism. As a translator,he is notable for his Swedish version of the Icelandic Edda,of Shakespeare's works and a heavily criticised translation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings,as well as a version of the Qur'an and works by writers including Dante and Nostradamus.
Dick Walther Harrison is a Swedish historian. He is currently a Professor of History at Lund University.
Gunnar Aspelin,was a Swedish professor of philosophy at Lund University in Lund,Sweden.
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.
August Wilhelm Malm was a Swedish zoologist,entomologist and malacologist. He was the first Director of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum.
Per Svante Gudmund Nordin is a Swedish historian of ideas and author. He is a professor of history of ideas at Lund University.
Lars Lönnroth is a Swedish literary scholar.
The discipline Idéoch lärdomshistoria,translated as History of Science and Ideas,is an important part of the humanities faculties in most Swedish universities,most notably Stockholm,Uppsala,Lund,Gothenburg,Umeåand Södertörn. It is a broad field of study that often involves cross disciplinary research between intellectual history,history of science,medicine or philosophy,conceptual history,history of education and media history. It is taught in Universities at undergraduate and graduate levels,and is also an active field of research. The annual journal Lychnos publishes the current research of the discipline.
Jonas Nordin is a Swedish author and historian,and from October 2018 professor in History of books and Libraries at Lund University.
Asta Ekenvall was a Swedish librarian,one of the founders of the Kvinnohistorisk arkiv of the University of Gothenburg and a pioneer in research and philosophy of women's history.
Yvonne Hirdman is a Swedish historian and gender researcher. She has received many awards for her work including the August Prize.
Wendela Beata Losman is a Swedish historian and archivist.
Agnes Birgitta Odén-Dunér was a Swedish historian. She was the first woman to hold a professorship at Lund University,and was also the first female history professor in Sweden. She was a member of several local and international literal and historical academies such as the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters;The Science Society in Lund (honorary);the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters,History and Antiquities;the Academy of Finland;the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1977;and the Academia Europaea.
Sven Lagerbring was a Swedish professor and historian. He has been described as "the first Swedish historian in the modern sense."
