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The university was founded in Turku in 1640 as the Royal Academy of Åbo under the Swedish Empire, and moved to Helsinki in 1828 under the sponsorship of Tsar Alexander I. The University of Helsinki is the oldest and largest university in Finland with the widest range of disciplines available.
Imperial Alexander University. Redirect to: University of Helsinki#Imperial Alexander University in Finland 1828–1919.
In 1828, the university was moved to Helsinki and it started operating under the name of the “Imperial Alexander University”. In 1832 , the university building designed by the architect Carl Ludvig Engel was inaugurated while the new library building north of the university building was inaugurated in 1845 .
The chosen archival material encompasses the documents and other resources kept in archives by the Royal Academy of Turku and the Imperial Alexander University, the predecessors of the University of Helsinki, from 1640 to 1924.
The Imperial Alexander University (University of Helsinki) in the 1890s. Picture from the Helsinki City Museum. In the 19th century, several scientific societies were founded, such as the Finnish Medical Society Duodecim in 1881 and the Finno-Ugrian Society in 1883.
The first professor of Swedish at Helsinki University. Axel Olof Fredenthal enrolled at the Imperial Alexander University in 1854 to study Classical Philology and Archaeology. He graduated with a master’s degree five years later.
Alexander L. Wolf is a professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London (UK). Prof. Wolf received the B.A. degree from Queens College of the City University of New York, majoring in both Geology and Computer Science.
