Stockholm University
| Stockholm University Stockholm universitet |
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| founding | 1878 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Stockholm |
| country |
 Sweden
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| Rector | Astrid Söderbergh Widding |
| Students | 33,000 ( FTE , 2018) |
| Employee | approx. 5,000 (2007) |
| including professors | approx. 550 (2007) |
| Annual budget | 2.951 billion SEK ~ 316 million euros |
| Networks | IAU |
| Website | www.su.se |
The University of Stockholm ( Swedish universitet Stockholm , abbreviated SU ; lat. : Universitas Holmiensis ) is one of 16 colleges and universities in the Swedish capital. The university, founded in 1878, is one of the top 100 universities in the world.
history
In 1869 an association was founded in Stockholm with the aim of establishing a university in Stockholm. After a fundraising campaign and with the support of the City of Stockholm, modest teaching in mathematics, physics, chemistry and geology began in 1878. In the following years, too, the natural science subjects dominated. The first chairs were established in the 1880s, all but one of which belonged to the natural sciences. Among the first professors were the mathematician Sofja Kowalewskaja , the first female professor in Sweden and probably also Europe, and the chemist Svante Arrhenius , who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1903 .
In 1904 it was possible for the first time to obtain doctorates at this university. The Faculty of State and Law was founded in 1907, the Faculty of Humanities in 1919 and the Faculty of Social Sciences in 1964. In the 1930s there was discussion about merging the various colleges in Stockholm into one university, but these plans were abandoned in the 1950s.
In 1960 it was converted to a state university and the construction of a university campus began in the Frescati district . At the same time the number of students multiplied (from the 1950s to 1970 from 5,000 to 30,000). In 1977 the social college and the journalism college were integrated into the Stockholm University, a little later other smaller institutes and laboratories. The last major change took place on January 1st, 2008, when the Stockholm Teachers' College was integrated into the SU.
Faculties
Today there are four faculties: the humanistic, the political and social science, the law and the natural science faculty. In addition, the SU operates two research centers for physics, astronomy and biotechnology and for computer science together with the Royal Technical University . Stockholm University has approximately 4,600 faculty, 1,800 of whom are visiting teachers and lecturers, and 33,000 are students.
Well-known professors and students
Nobel Prize Winner
- Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927), Chemistry 1903
- Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873–1964), chemistry 1929
- George de Hevesy (1885–1966), chemistry 1943
- Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987), economist, politician and recipient of the 1974 Nobel Prize for Economics
- Tomas Tranströmmer (1931–2015), literature 2011
- Paul J. Crutzen (* 1933), meteorologist, chemistry 1995
Other
- Sofja Kowalewskaja (1850-1891), world's first teaching professor for mathematics (1884-1891)
- Percy Dudgeon Quensel (1881-1966), geologist
- Ingmar Bergman , director
- Hans Bielenstein , sinologist
- Carl Bildt , Swedish Prime Minister 1991–1994, and Swedish Foreign Minister 2006–2014
- Hans Blix (LLD), diplomat
- Bert Bolin , meteorologist
- Horace Engdahl , literary scholar
- Harry Flam , economist
- Christer Fuglesang , astronaut
- Dag Hammarskjöld , UN Secretary General
- Jens Lapidus , defense attorney and author
- Peter Lindgren , former guitarist from Opeth
- Madeleine of Sweden
- Victoria of Sweden
- Olof Palme , Swedish Prime Minister
- Andreas Papandreou , Greek Prime Minister
- Georgios Papandreou , Prime Minister of Greece
- Fredrik Reinfeldt , Swedish Prime Minister 2006–2014
- Erik Tidner (1893–1978), Swedish classical philologist, Latin lecturer 1932–1960
See also
- List of universities in Stockholm
- List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)
- Aula Magna (Stockholm University)
- Stockholm University Library
Web links
- Stockholm University website (English / Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Universitetets ledning. Retrieved September 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Högskoleverket - Statistics for 2008 (Swedish), p. 120ff. ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.6 MB)
- ↑ a b Universitetet i siffror 2007 ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Årsredovisning
- ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed August 18, 2019 .
- ^ SU website in English
Coordinates: 59 ° 21 ′ 55 ″ N , 18 ° 3 ′ 30 ″ E