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Charles XII (sometimes Carl XII) (1682-1718) of Sweden

From September 1716, Sweden was ruled for almost two years from Lund. These were perhaps the most wretched years in the country’s history. The Great Northern War had raged since 1700. In the beginning, the Swedes had won several victories but after the defeat at Poltava and the capitulation at Perevolotjna, the country encountered a series […]

Crafoord, Holger (1908-1982), industrialist, patron

Entrepreneur, industrialist, financier…. The epithets are many for Holger Crafoord, one of Lund’s great industrialists. He saw opportunities and dared to invest. Gambro was one of Lund’s largest and most well-known companies. It was conceived following a random meeting between Holger Crafoord and Doctor Nils Alwall.Holger Crafoord was born in 1908 in Stockholm. His mother […]

Harald Bluetooth, died 986 or 987, Danish king

Harald Bluetooth was the father of Sven Forkbeard, the founder of Lund. Harald was the son of the Danish king Gorm the Elder, who, in the year c.900, created a kingdom around Jelling in central Jutland. According to the runestone, which Harald himself erected at Jelling, he was the conqueror “of all Denmark and Norway and […]

Hill, Carl Fredrik (1849-1911), artist

Driven by an endless desire to paint and draw, 24-year-old Carl Fredrik Hill moved to Paris where he pursued a productive artistic life. However, he did so with a strong, guilt-ridden father complex and sadness due to not having the time to demonstrate to his father what he was capable of. Suffering from chronic schizophrenia […]

Klint, Hilma af (1862 – 1944), artist

Born in 1862 at Karlberg Castle in Stockholm. Due to her artistic talents, she enrolled at the Technical School, today’s Art College, and then continued to the Swedish Royal Academy of Arts, which she left in 1887. She became a competent portrait and landscape painter and, in this category, could have had a mediocre career […]

Levan, Albert (1905-1997), Professor of Genetics

 He should have received the Nobel Prize. This is a statement commonly heard whenever the research work of Albert Levan is being discussed. He chose Lund as his place of work because here was the only department in the country specialising in heredity research Albert Levan worked as a plant geneticist at Svalöv from 1933 to […]

Rausing, Ruben (1895 – 1983), industrial magnate, founder of Tetra Pak

Ruben Rausing was born in Råå and the son of master painter August Andersson. In connection with his graduation (1915) at Nicolai School in Helsingborg, then Gossläroverket “Gossis”, he adopted the name Rausing after his home parish Raus. His studies, paid for by an aunt, took him to the Stockholm School of Economics. It started […]

Sven Forkbeard, (960 – 1014), Danish king, founder of Lund

King of DenmarkSven was the son of the Danish king Harald Bluetooth and the father of Knut the Great.In the 10th century, the loosely allied small kingdoms of the Old Norse world began moving towards Christianity, as was happening on the continent. Harald Bluetooth had increased his power as Danish king by creating a sovereignty […]

Winstrup, Peder (1605 – 1679), bishop, initiator of Lund University

Peder Winstrup was the last Dane and the first bishop in the diocese of Lund. He was born in Copenhagen and the son of the bishop of the diocese of Sjaelland. He went to school in Sorø, the Danish equivalent of Eton at that time and later made a several-year educational tour of the continent […]