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unusual facts about Tensta, Uppsala



Adam Afzelius

Returning to Sweden, he again took up his position as botanices demonstrator at Uppsala, and was in 1802 elected president of the "Zoophytolithic Society" (later called the Linnaean Institute).

Alexandra Isles

Isles was born in Uppsala, Sweden to Mabel Wilson Wright and Count Carl Adam Moltke, son of Carl Moltke.

Anders Hallberg

On February 8, 2007, two chaired professors of mathematics at Uppsala University resigned from their positions, after a lengthy period of conflict at the Mathematics Institute, and received 2.2 million SEK each.

Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh

In 1849 his mother discovered that he had been having affairs with girls on the family estate, so she sent him into exile to Uppsala in Sweden and then to Moscow with his brother and the Rev. Wood, whom he came to hate.

Aun

He was buried in a mound at Uppsala and succeeded by his last son Egil.

Ruling from his seat in Uppsala, Aun was reputedly a wise king who made sacrifices to the gods.

Aun fled to the Geats in Västergötland, where he stayed for 25 years until Halfdan died in his bed in Uppsala.

Barnaba Tortolini

He was honored with membership in the most eminent Italian societies and became a foreign minister of the Swedish Academy of Sciences in Uppsala.

Bolsta Runestones

The Bolsta Runestones are two Viking Age memorial runestones and two fragments of a third that are located in Bolsta, which is on the east edge of Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden, and in the historic province of Uppland.

Christina Odenberg

When the then bichop of the Diocese of Lund K. G. Hammar was made archbishop of Uppsala Odenberg was appointed as his successor on June 5, 1997.

Coonabarabran

Siding Spring is also home to the Uppsala Telescope where Robert H. McNaught discovered his now famous daylight comet C/2006 P1 in August 2006.

Ekonomikum

The Ekonomikum serves the Uppsala University a multidisciplinary centre specialized in economics and financial studies, information science, and human geography.

Eric Anundsson

:My grandfather Thorgny could well remember the Uppsala king Eirik Eymundson, and used to say of him that when he was in his best years he went out every summer on expeditions to different countries, and conquered for himself Finland, Kirjalaland, Courland, Esthonia, and the eastern countries all around; and at the present day the earth-bulwarks, ramparts, and other great works which he made are to be seen.

Erik Benzelius

Erik Benzelius the Elder (1632–1709), bishop of Strängnäs, later archbishop of Uppsala

Étienne de Bonneuil

Bonneuil's name is recorded in various documents relating to his intention to go to Uppsala, Sweden, to design the new cathedral.

Frey Svenson

In the year of 1899 he worked at Upsala Hospital, which at that time was a psychiatric hospital rather than a medical hospital.

Hans Ek

Hans Ek, born in 1964 in Uppsala, Sweden, is a conductor and arranger working in the meeting between classical music, jazz, pop and folk music.

Herbert Munkhammar

Herbert "Afasi" Munkhammar also known as Afasi (born in Uppsala, Sweden on 15 March 1985) is a Swedish hip hop artist, rapper and singer and part of various formations like Afasi & Filthy (2002–2009), Maskinen (2009-presently) and part of the duo Ansiktet.

Iscom

ISCOM technology was invented in 1982 by Professor Bror Morein at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala.

Iustin Moisescu

As a member of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (1961–77), he participated in general congresses at New Delhi (1961), Uppsala (1969) and Nairobi (1975) as well as at the annual sessions of the Central Committee at Paris (1962), Geneva (1966, 1973 and 1976), Heraklion (1967), Canterbury (1969), Addis Ababa (1971), Utrecht (1972), Berlin (1974), etc.

Jane Miller Thengberg

Jane Miller Thengberg, (22 March 1822 Greenock, Scotland - 2 May 1902, Uppsala, Sweden), was a Swedish-Scottish teacher.

Joan Backes

Permanent installations of her work include Internationales Waldkunst Odenwald Forest, Darmstadt, Germany; Berlin / Grunewald, Berlin, Germany; Linnaean Garden, Uppsala, Sweden; Silpakorn University Art Atrium, Bangkok, Thailand; and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada.

Johan Adler Salvius

In 1612 he started his studies in Uppsala, but also visited the Protestant universities of Rostock and Helmstedt where he studied philosophy.

Johannes Bureus

Bureus was born in 1568 in Åkerby near the famous city of Uppsala (where the largest and last of the pagan temples once was) in Sweden as a son of a Lutheran parish priest.

Kvistaberg Observatory

The observatory was the result of a donation in 1944 from Nils Tamm, an artist who had studied astronomy in his youth under Nils Christoffer Dunér and Östen Bergstrand in Uppsala and remained an avid amateur astronomer throughout his life.

Ladislav Mucina

He completed post-doctoral studies at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and later served as visiting fellow and professor in Trieste, Camerino, Perugia, and Rome, all in Italy, Uppsala in Sweden, Brno in the Czech Republic, Perth in Australia and Pretoria and Stellenbosch, both in South Africa.

Länna

Länna, Uppsala Municipality, a locality in Uppsala Municipality, Uppsala County, Uppland

Livets Ord

Ekman passed on the local pastorship in Uppsala to Robert Ekh that year and instead works on expanding the church's international work.

The parish was founded in Uppsala by Ulf Ekman on May 24, 1983, who also served as its leader until 2000.

Martin Hengel

He received honorary doctorates from the universities of Uppsala, St Andrews, Cambridge, Durham, Strasbourg and Dublin.

Njål Sparbo

Among his performances are Mahler’s ”Lieder eines fahrendes Gesellen” with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields in London, Bach’s ”Christmas Oratorio” with the Drottningholm's Baroque Orchestra in Uppsala and Rossini’s ”Petite Messe Sollenelle” in Köln Philharmonie, Kverno's "St. Matthew Passion" in New York and Manoa in Handel's "Samson" at the London Handel Festival.

Norse rituals

Adam of Bremen's description of the sacrifices and the cultic centre in Uppsala is the best known account of pre-Christian rituals in Sweden.

Nya Upsala, Wisconsin

He named the settlement New Upsala after the historic Swedish university city of Uppsala and pursued his dream to establish a Swedish cultural and intellectual center on the frontier.

Olaus Swartz

After receiving his education at Uppsala, he traveled in Finland, Lapland, and the West Indies, and explored the coasts of South America in 1783, returning with a collection of rare plants.

Peter Andreas Heiberg

One and a half years later, his family bought him out of his military service, and after a short stay in Uppsala, he went to Bergen, where he stayed with his uncle for three years.

Pittsburgh compound B

The University of Pittsburgh team partnered with a team of researchers from Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden, to conduct the first trials of this new agent in human research subjects.

Ruben Liljefors

Ruben Mattias Liljefors (30 September 1871, Uppsala – 4 March 1936, Uppsala) was a Swedish composer and conductor, brother of the artist Bruno Liljefors.

Rudbeck

Olaus Rudbeck (1630–1702), Swedish scientist and writer, professor of medicine at Uppsala University

Saraband

While Henrik is away tending to the orchestra he conducts in Uppsala, Johan has a private meeting with Karin, informing her of a proposal from Ivan Chablov, head conductor in the St. Petersburg orchestra and an old friend of Johan, that Karin join him at the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

Scopula antiloparia

The species is possibly a junior synonym of Scopula minorata, based on genital examination of type material at The Natural History Museum, London, and Universitets Zoologiska Institut, Uppsala, Sweden.

Sigurd Agrell

He began his poetic career as a 16-year-old secondary school student in Örebro, where he contributed with translations and own poems to Lingvo internacia, an Esperanto magazine that had been published in Uppsala since 1895.

Stefan Michnik

He lives as a retired librarian in a small town of Storvreta near Uppsala.

Stockholms nation

The songwriter Carl Michael Bellman was enrolled in Stockholms nation during his brief period as a student in Uppsala (1758–1759).

Student orientation

This is most extensive at the technical faculties and at the student nation communities of Uppsala and Lund.

Sven-Olof Olson

Later he became head of the Air Force Academy F 20 and Upplands Fighter Wing, F 16, both in the city of Uppsala.

Troilius

Samuel Troilius, Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden from 1758 to 1764

Ulf Ekman

In 2006 the archbishop of the Catholic Church in Sweden Anders Arborelius was invited to World of Life church in Uppsala for a public discussion.

Uppland Runic Inscription 933

Uppland Runic Inscription 933 or U 933 is the Rundata catalog number for a granite Viking Age memorial runestone located at the Uppsala Cathedral, which is in the center of Uppsala, Sweden.

Uppsalaåsen

It then continues across the Uppland landscape and past Uppsala, eventually in the form of Billudden disappearing into the Gävle Bay.


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