When Nils was admitted to the University of Lund, he had to take on a family name.

Statue of Linnaeus as a University student in Lund

In 1727, Linnaeus, age 21, enrolled in Lund University in Skåne.

The first video images of an electron's energy distribution were captured by a team at Lund University in Sweden, February 2008.

* Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy at Lund University

Lund University () is one of Europe's most prestigious universities and Scandinavia's largest institutions for education and research, consistently ranked among the world's top 100 universities.

Lund University has eight faculties, with additional campuses in the cities of Malmö and Helsingborg, with 47, 000 students in more than 280 different programmes and around 2, 250 separate courses.

Lund University main building, built in 1882, drawn by Helgo Zettervall.

After the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658, the Scanian lands came under the possession of the Swedish Crown, which quickly founded the Lund University in 1666 as a means of Swedification.

The name was in some formal use until the late 19th century, when Lund University became the widespread denomination.

Lund Institute of Technology was established in 1961 but was merged with Lund University eight years later.

In recent years, Lund University has been very popular among applicants to Swedish higher education institutions, both nationally and internationally.

In 1992 Boel Flodgren, Professor of Business Law, was appointed rector magnificus ( or, strictly speaking, rectrix magnifica ) of Lund University.

Lund University has a satellite campus in nearby Malmö, Sweden's third largest city.

The city is also the location of Skåne University Hospital, where Lund University performs a considerable amount of research and medical training.

Lund University library was established in 1666 at the same time as the university and is one of Sweden's oldest and largest.

Education and research in the health sciences at the university is operated in cooperation with Skåne University Hospital, located in both Lund and Malmö.

* Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies ( LUCSUS )

* Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University

* International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University ( IIIEE )

* Lund University Diabetes Centre ( LUDC )

Notable exchangees include United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who spent time at Lund University in the 1960s conducting research.

Campus Helsingborg is, as the name suggests, located in the city of Helsingborg, almost 50 km from Lund.

Lund University is well known as one of Scandinavia's largest research universities.

The EU is the university's second largest external research funder and Lund is the 23rd largest receiver of funding within the union's Seventh Framework Programme.

Lund University is among the most renowned institutions of higher learning in the Nordic countries and is rarely ranked below 100 in the world by the most influential ranking agencies.

Lund student life is based on three central structures: the student nations, the Academic Society ( AF ) and the student unions.

To this day, AF is the center of student life in Lund, featuring many theater companies, a prize-winning student radio ( Radio AF ), and organizing the enormous Lundakarnevalen ( the Lund Carnival ) every four years.

The Delphi residential area, located in the northern part of Lund, is one of the large student housing complexes run by AF Bostäder.

The following is a select list of some of the most notable people who have been affiliated with Lund University as students or academics, please refer to the main article for more information.

* Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, of which Lund University Library is a member

The name Lundy is believed to come from the old Norse word for " puffin island " ( Lundey ), lundi being the Norse word for a puffin and ey, an island, although an alternative explanation has been suggested with Lund referring to a copse, or wooded area.

Lund, with a municipal population of over 100, 000 and home to one of Scandinavia's major universities, is together with Malmö the region's economic and education hub.

Malmö is thought to have been founded in 1275, as a fortified quay or ferry berth of the Archbishop of Lund, some 20 km to the north-east.

The region's leading university, along with its associated hi-tech and pharmaceutical industries, is located in Lund about 16 km to the north-east.

* The Faculty of Medicine, which is located in both Malmö and Lund.

* 1185: The cathedral school ( Katedralskolan ) in Lund, Sweden, is founded.

* 1085: the Katedralskolan, Lund school of Sweden is established by Canute IV of Denmark

* December 25 – Christopher I of Denmark is crowned King of Denmark in Lund Cathedral

His play Niels Ebbesen has been translated into English ( 2007 ) by his granddaughter Arense Lund, and Dave Carley.

The unions are incorporated into the Association of Lund University Student Unions ( LUS ).

That Sweden came out of the Scanian War with only minor losses was largely due to France forcing Sweden's adversaries into the treaties of Fontainebleau ( 1679 ) ( confirmed at Lund ) and Saint-Germain ( 1679 ).

In the municipality there are two localities which have grown into suburbs of Malmö, Staffanstorp with 14, 800 inhabitants and Hjärup with 4, 000 inhabitants, which both are typical residential districts dominated by detached houses built in the second half of the 20th century, wherefrom most people commute for work in the nearby cities of Lund and Malmö.

After the Battle at Lund, rebels fled into the cathedral and Rantzau's soldiers dragged 60 men from the church and executed them on the spot.

The document of his donation to Lund Cathedral was the oldest comprehensive text from Denmark, and provided broad insights into Danish post-Viking Age society.

For example, Tom Lund, the head of our single-family mortgage business, publicly stated, " One of the things we don't feel good about right now as we look into this marketplace is more homebuyers being put into programs that have more risk.

Lund translated the entire Bible into Hiligaynon, and the New Testament into two other dialects.

Lund was the site of the Skåne Assembly ( Danish: landsting ) at St Liber's Hill into the Middle Ages.

But at that moment he was turned into stone, and that is why there is a stone man hugging a pillar in the Lund Cathedral this day ( probably this carving actually represents Samson from the Bible ).

Making use of four different artillery batteries, Lund organized fire into separate concentrations along the battlefield, with devastating consequences for the waves of advancing NVA.

This ultimate source of evil theme is looked into again in a presentation by Dr. Stefan Ekman of Lund University in Sweden.

The Battle of Lund severely crippled both armies, and is known to be one of the bloodiest battles in the history of mankind, when taking into consideration the casualties in comparison to the total number of combatants.

From 1861 the Chancellor of Uppsala University was also head of the Karolinska Institute ( founded in 1810 ), and from 1859 until 1893 the Chancellorship of Uppsala University was always held by the same person as the Chancellorship of Lund University ; from June 17, 1893, the positions were combined into a single one, with the new University Chancellor having responsibility both for the two old universities and for the then recently founded University Colleges of Stockholm and Gothenburg ( now the Universities of Stockholm and Gothenburg ).

In the autumn of the same year he was taken into a lunatic asylum in Stockholm, and in February 1909 he was moved to the asylum of St. Lars in Lund, where he spent the rest of his life.

Birbal took command of the troops and around mid February marched into a concentrated formation of the Afghans in the Katlang area of Lund Khwar.

In 1723, while studying at Lund University, he first accompanying his stepfather, Severin Böckman, to Stockholm and in 1726 he entered into public office there.

Lund ran into the inferno and managed to pull Panch out of the wreckage.

Lund drove into the lead but his clutch packed in and he was classified ninth.

Lund controlled the event at Hickory before falling into a win when Richard Petty had problems at North Wilkesboro.

On the seventh lap, Lund and J. D. McDuffie collided on the backstretch ; Lund and McDuffie spun down the track as it turned into chaos behind them.