Nils Runeby

Nils-Olof Richard Runeby (born January 29, 1931 in Stora Tuna , Dalarna Province , † November 22, 2009 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish historian .

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Nils Runeby studied at Uppsala University and received his doctorate there in 1962 with a thesis on Swedish history on the subject of “Monarchia mixta. Maktfördelningsdebatt i Sverige under the tidigare stormaktstiden ”. He then worked as a lecturer at this university. From 1975 to 1979 he held the chair for Nordic history at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , and from 1979 to 1996 he was professor for the modern history of ideas at Stockholm University .

In 1991 he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .

Works

• Monarchia mixta. Maktfördelningsdebatt i Sverige under den tidigare stormaktstiden , Svenska Bokfoerlaget, Stockholm 1962 (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia historica Upsaliensia, Volume 6).
• Bengt Skytte, Comenius och Abdikationskrisen 1651 . In: Scandia, vol. 29 (1963), pp. 360-382.
• The power of the king and the distribution of power under Queen Christina . In: Magnus von Platen (ed.): Queen Christina of Sweden. Documents and studies, Norstedt, Stockholm 1966, pp. 322-331.
• Den Nya Vaerlden och the gamla. Amerikabild och emigrationsuppfattning i Sverige 1820–1860 , Svenska Bokfoerlaget, Stockholm 1969.
• Teknikerna, vetenskapen och cultures. Ingenjörsundervisning och ingenjörsorganisationer i 1870-talets Sverige , Almquist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1976, ISBN 91-554-0469-3 .
• From Uppsala to Kiel. On the problem of scientific border traffic . In: Christiana Albertina, NF Volume 6 (1977), pp. 41-51.
• Americanism, Taylorism and Social Integration. Action programs for Swedish industry at the beginning of the twentieth century . In: Scandinavian journal of history, vol. 1978, pp. 21-46.
• Sweden (together with Martin Grass). In: Frank Wende (Ed.): Lexicon for the history of parties in Europe , Kröner, Stuttgart 1981, pp. 579-598, ISBN 3-520-81001-8 .
• Barbarism or civility? On the development of an organized society in the 17th century . In: Göran Rystad (Ed.): Europe and Scandinavia. Aspects of the process of integration in the 17th century , Esselte Studium, Lund 1983, pp. 203–222, ISBN 91-24-32785-9 .
• Klerkernas ansvar och early organization. Kring de intellektuellas mobilisering i 1950-talets Sverige . In: Wolfgang Butt (Ed.): The near north. Otto Oberholzer on his 65th birthday; a Festschrift , Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1985, pp. 287-306, ISBN 3-8204-5349-0 .
• Forward! Technical progress and its difficulties in an engineer's worldview at the turn of the century. In: Wolfgang Girnus (Ed.): Carl-Wilhelm-Scheele-Ehrung 1986 , Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Berlin 1987, pp. 185–198.
• Notes about a prevented republic . In: Helmut G. Koenigsberger (Ed.): Republiken und Republikanismus im Europa der early Neuzeit, Oldenbourg, Munich 1988 (Writings of the Historical College, Volume 11), pp. 273–284, ISBN 3-486-54341-5 .
• Dygd och vetande. Ur de bildades historia , Atlantis, Stockholm 1995, ISBN 91-7486-189-1 .
• Witness to a German century. Swedish judgments on the German Empire . In: Klaus Hildebrand (Ed.): The German Empire in the Judgment of the Great Powers and European Neighbors 1871-1946 , Oldenbourg, Munich 1995 (Writings of the Historical College, Volume 33), pp. 49-67, ISBN 3-486-56084 -0 .
• "The great diligence and fame of the Germans". Intellectual and scientific exchange . In: Martin Grass u. a. (Ed.): Sweden and Germany: Encounters and Impulse , Svenska Institutet, Stockholm 1999, pp. 62–79, ISBN 91-520-0538-0 .

Festschrift

• Staffan Källström / Erland Sellberg (ed.): Motströms. Reviews av det moderna , Carlsson, Stockholm 1991, ISBN 91-7798-414-5 .