Academy of Lund

Academy of Lund, Studium generale was the first University in Denmark as well as in Scandinavia.[1] It was in use for a duration of more than a century, from 1425 to 1536.[2] It was closed as the Reformation reached Denmark, and as it had been located together with a Franciscan monastery.[3]

A sign at Klostergatan ("Monastery street") at Lund, which remembers the very first University of Scandinavia, as well as the fact this was indeed not the current University of Lund.

Today's University of Lund is a far younger institution, which opened in 1666,[4] eight years after the first Swedish conquest of Scania from Denmark (1658-1676). However did the Academy of Lund open 241 years earlier.

References
  1. http://www.lum.lu.se/upp-och-ner-for-teologin-i-lund/
  2. http://www.netleksikon.dk/a/ak/akademiet_i_lund.shtml
  3. http://www.lum.lu.se/upp-och-ner-for-teologin-i-lund/
  4. http://www.lu.se/om-universitetet/universitetet-i-korthet
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