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Olof Rudbeck
Olof Rudbeck the Elder (–), is one of Uppsala University’s most outstanding figures throughout the centuries. He was the son of a bishop from Västerås and entered the University at a young age.
Discovery of the lympatic system
Medical education was not especially advanced at Uppsala at the time, but the young Rudbeck made what has been called ‘the first scientific discovery by a Swede’, the lymphatic system and the circulation of lymphatic fluid in the human body.
A Danish scientist had made roughly the same discoveries at the same time, and the two naturally disagreed about which one of them had been first. At any rate, Rudbeck had performed a scientific feat and as a young man made a name for himself among the learned in Europe.
Rudbeck's academic career in Uppsala
After a period abroad Rudbeck returned to Uppsala, and in he was appointed to one of the chairs at the Faculty of Medicine (at that time there were only two). He held the post until , when he was succeeded by his son Olof Rudbeck, Jr. On several occasions he was the University’s Vice-Chancellor.
Theatrum anatomicum
In the early s he had the Theatrum Anatomicum built – an anatomical theatre f
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Olaus Rudbeck (also known as Olof Rudbeck the Elder) was a frighteningly brilliant man. He was a philosopher, scientist, anatomist, inventor, and professor of medicine at Uppsala University. As an enthusiastic teenage student, he was one of the first to discover the form and function of the lymphatic system. His findings were published in the paper Nova exercitatio anatomica in (The established Danish anatomy professor, Thomas Bartholin, published similar findings in the same year, however, and claimed priority.) Rudbeck built Sweden&#;s first anatomical theatre, in the face of public outrage, which you can still see today in its distinctive cupola on top of the main university building. When not dissecting corpses, Rudbeck pursued the noble art of botany, and established Uppsala&#;s Botanic Garden, now named after his successor, Carl Linnaeus.
Rudbeck points out the location of Atlantis (northern Sweden)
Rudbeck&#;s main obsession, though, was Atlantis. He shared Plato’s belief that this lost civilisation was real. More than that, he advanced the theory that the fabled city was actually situated somewhere in the north of Sweden. He was assiduous in his search f
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History
The Botanical Garden of Uppsala University fryst vatten the oldest in Sweden. It was founded in by the polymath Olof Rudbeck the elder, Professor of medicin. At that time the garden was located in central Uppsala, in the Svartbäcken district near the Fyrisån river (figure). In the garden the medical students could learn botany and study medicinal plants. By the end of the 17th century there were more than plant species in the garden, many grown for the first time in Sweden – for example the potato.
Olof Rudbeck’s botanic garden was illa damaged during the great Uppsala fire of As the university lacked resources to restore it, the garden entered a period of decline.
In Carl Linnaeus was appointed as Director of the, by then, dilapidated botanic garden. He transformed it into one of the foremost gardens in the world. Through his world-wide network of contacts he was able to bring in thousands of plant species. They were grown in a particular beställning determined bygd Linnaeus, according to his Sexual struktur or in ecological plantings. Today, Linnaeus’ botanic garden has been reconstructed according to his original program from It is now called the Linnaeus Garden and fryst vatten a living memoria