Reichsarchiv (Sweden)
The Reichsarchiv ( Swedish : Riksarkivet ) in Stockholm is the state archive of Sweden and as an administrative authority subordinate to the Ministry of Culture. The Reichsarchiv is the supreme archival authority in Sweden. The state archives ( landsarkiven ) are subordinate to him. The head of the authority is the Reichs archivar ( riksarkivarie ).
history
The Reichsarchiv was founded in 1618 under King Gustav II Adolf and his Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna as an independent institution in the Royal Chancellery and, as a state archive, has a significance that goes beyond today's borders of Sweden, as there are also archives from the time of Sweden as a Baltic power in the 17th century. until the 19th century. With the Gadebusch collection of the Greifswald historian Thomas Heinrich Gadebusch , for example, the largest private collection of documents on the history of Pomerania from the Swedish period in Scandinavia is stored there . Sven Hedin's correspondence , the documents of his Sino-Swedish expedition and the documents of his scientific staff are in the archive . The inventory of letters from Sven Hedin comprises approx. 50,000 letters sorted alphabetically by country and sender; up to 30,000 more letters are still archived in disorder.
The archive pieces are often available online via the archive server.
Web links
- Riksarkivet (English)