LUND  , a

city of Sweden, the seat of a bishop, in the district (Ian) of Malmohus, ro m . N.E. of Malmo by rail . Pop . (1900) 16,621 . A university was founded here in 1668 by Charles XI., with faculties of law, medicine, theology and philosophy . The number of students ranges from 600 to 800, and there are about 5o professors . Its library of books and MSS. is entitled to receive a copy of every work printed in Sweden . Important buildings include the university hall (1882), the academic union of the students (185r) containing an art museum; the astronomical observatory, built in 1866, though observations have been carried on since 176o; the botanical museum, and ethnographical and industrial art collections, illustrating life in southern Sweden from early times . Each student belongs to one of twelve nations (landskap), which mainly comprises students from a particular part of the country . The Romanesque cathedral was founded about the middle of the roth century . The crypt under the raised transept and choir is one of the largest in the world, and the church is one of the finest in Scandinavia . A statue of the poet Esaias Tegner stands in the Tegners Plads, and the house in which he lived from 1813 to 1826 is indicated by an inscribed stone slab .

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chief industries are sugar-refining, iron and brick works, and the manufacture of furniture and gloves . Lund (Londinum Gothorum), the "Lunda at Eyrarsund" of Egil's Saga, was of importance in Egil's time (c . 920) . It appears that, if not actually a seaport, it was at least nearer the Sound than now . In the middle of the 11th century it was made a bishopric, and in 1103 the seat of an archbishop who received primatial rank over all Scandinavia in 1163, but in 1536 Lund was reduced to a bishopric . Close to the town, at the hill of Sliparabacke, the Danish kings used to receive the homage of the princes of Skare, and a monument records a victory of Charles XI. over the Danes (1676), which extinguished the Danish claim to suzerainty over this district .