THE AMERICAN-SCANDINA VIAN REVIEW 
89 
Beyond the Cathedral, Not Far From the Heart of Lundagard, Lies the Ancient Black- 
friars’ Monastery 
This selection of Lund as a home for his University was perhaps 
due less to his reverence for the past than to his practical eye for 
economy. The ancient Cathedral School still existed, retaining its 
privileges and endowments. These were now transferred to the new 
University, which thus started in easy economic circumstances, and if 
these had remained intact, no other seat of learning in Scandinavia 
would have been so wealthy. The Gustavian estates donated to the 
Uppsala Academy were small as compared with those of Lund. But 
the king gave, and the king took away. War raged across Skane, 
the newly established University had to close its doors, and when in 
1689 they reopened, the economic resources of Lund were very much 
reduced. Karl XI was a rigid economist, who took for the common¬ 
wealth whatever he could find, and the University which first started 
in affluence at his re-establishment was then not far from being impe¬ 
cunious. 
The goal aimed at by the establishment of Lund University was 
the fusing of the new Sweden with the old country. During its first 
years of existence, however, the new school of learning was not equal 
to the important programme set before it. Yet, even at that time the 
list of lecturers includes a name like Pufendorff, the founder of all 
legal studies in Sweden, and when the gates of learning were opened 
once more, the University could rejoice in numbering among its teach- 
