City walk Uppsala 1h - funny anecdotes from Uppsala University's history

Name: City walk Uppsala 1h - funny anecdotes from Uppsala University's history
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Experience the different history of the Nordic region's oldest university; hear about the founding to be better than the Danes, brutal student housing in the 17th century, the university as a city in the city with its own judges, prisons, police, craftsmen, etc. and the student in the 18th century who signed a contract with the devil. 2 people are required for the tour to run.

We walk around central Uppsala with a focus on the buildings, professors and student housing that are preserved. Hear about Celsius, Rudbeck and Linnaeus and students. Uppsala University, Anno Domini 1477, is the oldest in the Nordic countries and has many different sad, dreary and exciting stories attached to it. The guide is led by an authorized Uppsala guide.

You will hear everything from the brutal 17th century student inaugurations, the professor who was rumored to sell essays to the students and how the feud between Denmark and Sweden gave Uppsala its university. You will hear how it came about that the university had to buy back a gift from the king by one of the university's builders

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What you'll do

Hear about the founding of the university by Jacob Ulvson and the medieval teach
ing before and after the university was founded until Gustav Vasa's rise in the 1520s.
10 min
Discover briefly about the state racial biology institute in Uppsala
10 min
Museum Gustavianum
3 Akademigatan, Uppsala, Sweden
Experience the different history of the Nordic region's oldest university; hear about the founding to be better than the Danes, brutal student housing in the 17th century, the university as a city in the city with its own judges, prisons, police, craftsmen, etc. and the student in the 18th century who signed a contract with the devil. Gustavianum is strictly for renovation but takes the exterior of the anatomical theater etc., the building itself has an exciting history that awaits ..
20 minAdmission not included
Uppsala University Main Building
Biskopsgatan 3, Uppsala, Sweden
We visit the University House, the largest party building and hear about the park where Uppsala farm was located where essential teaching in German, French, dance, riding and drawing occurred for the children of the nobles who enrolled at 8-9 years of age at the university. We enter the University House if it is open. Hear about the architect so it went bankrupt and the scandal house.
15 minAdmission not included
Carolina Rediviva University Library
Drottninggatan, Box 510, Uppsala, Sweden
We end the tour outside the University Library Carolina Revidiva. Hear about the silver spade that the university had to redeem from the architect's heirs, about the books that crowded the banquet hall and the letter to the devil a student wrote in the 18th century.
10 min