The same year he visited Stockholm, where he made the acquaintance of Peter, son of Hugo Grotius, and in 1637 Hamburg, Upsala, Copenhagen, Leyden, and Amsterdam.
The activities of the Academy of Agriculture and Forestry have been transferred to an area in Ultuna outside Upsala.
In 1839 he collated the Codex Argenteus at Upsala, and in January 1840 he formed the plan of his Icelandic-English Dictionary, starting work by April.
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In the year of 1899 he worked at Upsala Hospital, which at that time was a psychiatric hospital rather than a medical hospital.
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.
Beck, himself a Swedish immigrant to the United States, had received his Ph.D. from Yale University in the previous year and turned down a teaching position at Yale to assume the post at Upsala.
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The name Upsala was chosen to honour both the historic Uppsala University in Sweden and the Meeting of Uppsala.