Stockholms nation

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The nation building in the early 1900s

The meeting and banquet hall of the nation in the 1880s.

Stockholms nation is a student society and one of thirteen nations at Uppsala University. The nation has its origins in the mid-17th century and regards 1649 as its official date of foundation, although this is uncertain. A document in the archives mentions students enrolled in the nation in 1649, but this is a copy of an original lost in the city fire 1702, and the nation is mentioned in the protocols of the consistory (board) of the university from 1656 as having been in existence for three years, which would put the foundation date at about 1653.^[1]

The old part of the building of the nation was designed by the architect Johan Fredrik Åbom and completed in 1848. A new wing of the nation building begun in 1961 is designed by modernist architect Peter Celsing.^[2]

Former curators (chairmen) of the nation include the mathematician Gösta Mittag-Leffler, the economist Knut Wicksell and the author Gösta Knutsson. The songwriter Carl Michael Bellman was enrolled in Stockholms nation during his brief period as a student in Uppsala (1758-1759).^[3]

See also: List of Uppsala University Nations