Gustavianum, Upsala, Sweden

Collection: Europe

Title

Gustavianum, Upsala, Sweden

Subject

Uppsala universitet

University of Upsala

Sweden

Description

On verso:
No. 295. GUSTAVIANUM, UPSALA, SWEDEN.
The famous University of Upsala was founded in 1477 and was endowed later by King Gustave Adolph II with his entire landed possessions. The present university building was erected from 1879 to 1887, in the renaissance style, with splendid marble columns and magnificently equipped. Here is preserved the celebrated Codex Argenteus, a portion of the Gospels,translated into Gothic by Bishop Ulfilas of Moesia, and written in letters of silver foil, with capitals of gold foil, deeply impressed [in]to very fine vellum of a violet color. In the sixth century it became lost and was rediscovered during the thirty years war, and after many wanderings was presented to the university in 1669.
The church in the background of the picture is the Cathedral in Gothic style, thoroughly renovated in 1886 to 1893, after it had been partly in ruins since 1702, when a conflagration laid almost all Upsala in ashes. Upsala is annually the scene of a great fair, where the northern farmers exchange their products for other merchandise.
A8523

Creator

[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)]

Source

Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA

Publisher

Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA

Date

ca. 1890-1900

Rights

No Copyright – United States

Format

image/jpeg

Language

English

Type

Stereographs

Identifier

295