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The Main Building of the University at Lund 
ers, Abraham Rydelius, the man who “taught philosophy how to speak 
Swedish,” and who was one of those who during the years of homeless¬ 
ness of the University, kept its spirit alive by gathering around them 
a band of loyal disciples, thus forming an academy in true Hellenic 
fashion. 
When Alma Mater Carolina obtained the epithet of Rediviva, 
she was in a better position to realize the original intentions of her 
founder, and the fact that the Skane provinces so quickly became 
Swedish, is first and foremost due to her. The demands of learning 
pure and simple were, under such circumstances, not so assiduously 
attended to, and there was reserved for a later period the glory of 
continuing what Pufendorff had inaugurated, the establishing of 
Uund among the great institutions in the free republic of learning. 
In all northern Europe there is perhaps no other place where 
within so confined an area so many proud traditions are preserved, as 
the Lundagard grounds with their memories from the Middle Ages, 
when Lund was the seat of archbishops, as well as from later times when 
academic youth reigned supreme. The cathedral on one side, and the 
University on the other, and in the shade of the old campus elms the 
ancient Lundagard house. Within its precincts the archbishop’s manor 
was situated; within its walls Denmark directed the government of 
Skane. There learning and scholarship held court. That was their 
true armory, and now treasures rich and rare from times long gone 
by are housed there. Not many institutions have such a glorious past. 
There Linne “learned the scales for his singing”; there Sven Lager- 
berg obtained his epithet “the father of Swedish historical writing,” 
and there Tegner gave his lectures on Greek authors. 
