Lund University
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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 Swedish province of Scania. The univers
Lund University Main Building, built in 1882, designed by Helgo Zettervall
View of the Historical Museum building in the 19th century
The University Square in the 1910s
Kungshuset, the oldest university building (completed 1584)
Carl Linnaeus
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Carl Linnaeus, also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as
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…public exhibitions. It possesses between 10 and 13 million specimens of plants and animals. The museum was founded by Kilian Stobaeus, a teacher of Carl Linnaeus, in 1735. It is divided into three sections: the herbarium, the entomological collections and the zoological collections. The collections are particularly…
Portrait by Alexander Roslin, 1775
Birthplace at Råshult
Örtaboken (Herb book), an early Linnaeus manuscript, 1725
Statue as a university student in Lund, by Ansgar Almquist