Uppsala Univeristy is Scandinavia's oldest univrsity - founded in 1477.
The driving force behind the formation of Uppsala University was Archbishop James Ulvsson. At first, teaching mainly consisted of lectures on philosophy, law, theology, no technological or scientific training did not exist. Faculty of Theology was long the university's power center.
After Jacob Ulvsson retirement in 1515 decreased the activity quickly to an end soon. Erik XIV and Johan III made feeble attempts to revive the university, but without success. At Uppsala meeting in 1593 determined that the University would be restored but the official document for the new business written during the first 1595th
University's heyday began in the 1620s, when Gustav II Adolf, through generous donations laid a solid economic foundation for the business and the number of students increased significantly. In the 1630s nearly 1000 students studied at the university. Olof Rudbeck became professor of medicine and represented the new science. He discovered, among other things the lymphatic system, built the anatomical theater of the Gustavianum roof and redrew the Uppsala's city plan on Christina's behalf. Political knowledge was given his first professorship of rhetoric and political science by then-University Chancellor John Shooter. The chair is still there today but Skytte wishes that the holder of the Chair of each month would glorify God's infinite goodness is no longer part of his duties.
The students began in the 1640s to organize themselves into nations based on geographic locality. Nations recognized in 1663 by the University, which appointed a professor as an inspector for each nation to monitor the operations.
In the mid-1700s was named Anders Celsius, professor of astronomy and Carl Linnaeus in medicine. The botany Linnaeus was professor of medicine is not surprising as medicine, botany and pharmacy during this time were practically the same science. A prominent humanist was the philologist Johan Ihre, also known as a fearless critic of the church and the state's power position, after a long process Ihre was sentenced to pay a year's professors as punishment for his outspokenness! Century's last decades was no golden age in the university's history. The natural sciences had lost its main representative, and the political turmoil after the French Revolution put a drag on the philosophical deb