Juvenalorden is a

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based at

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. Juvenalorden was founded in 1907, but traces its traditions to the society known as " The Juvenals" (''Juvenalerna''), which had been active in the 1830s and 1840s. The ''Juvenalorden'', or "Juvenal Order", of 1907 was founded on the initiative of then student, later clergyman August Lindh, remembered for his widespread Swedish translation of the German student song (in Swedish: ''O, gamla klang - och jubeltid!''), and with a tenuous connection to the original society in the form of the aging physician M. Aspelin, who had during his student days in Uppsala been introduced into the Juvenals by its principal figure, the poet and composer Gunnar Wennerberg (1817-1901) himself. The purpose of the order (as stated in the ''

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'' article on the society from 1924) was to work "for the ennobling of youthful happiness in the academic life". As a revival of the earlier society the order worked to both conserve and develop aspects of older upsaliensian student life, which had acquired a classical character in the mid 19th century; important aspects of this is the male student choir singing and the performance of '' spex'', a form of comical musical theatre usually based on themes from history or

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and characterized by its humorous anachronisms. Notable members of the younger juvenals include the arctic explorer

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, the historian Sten Lindroth (later the Carlberg Professor of History of Ideas and Learning in Uppsala), the writer

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, and the writer and entertainer

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. Among the prominent living members are the lawyer Peter Nobel, former Secretary General of the Swedish section of

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, and

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, chairman of the Nordic bank

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.Gunilla Sthyr,
Företagsproffs tar över klubban
", press release from Uppsala University, 11 march, 2003. Juvenalorden publishes a series of publications covering various aspects of Upsaliensian student history.

Notes

References

*Ehnmark, Anders:
Nobel frivolitet. Peter Nobel har skrivit en jättelik bok
, review of Peter Nobel's memoirs, in ''

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'' 29 October 2004. *Eriksson, Gunnar: "Lindroth, Sten Hjalmar", '' Svenskt biografiskt lexikon'', vol. 23, p. 581-587. *Franzén, Olle: "Malmgren, Finn", ''Svenskt biografiskt lexikon'', vol. 24, p. 770-772. *Hornwall, Gert: "Knutsson, Gösta", ''Svenskt biografiskt lexikon'', vol. 21, p. 393 *''

'',
Juvenalorden
(unsigned), vol. 36, Supplement (1924), col. 836. *Öberg, Lars: "Lindh, Alrik", ''Svenskt biografiskt lexikon'', vol. 23, p. 451-452 *Sthyr, Gunilla,

, Press release from Uppsala University dated 11 March 2003, on the occasion of Dalborg's appointment as chairman of the consistory (university board). *Svensk Filmdatabas ("Swedish Film Database"), published online by the Swedish Film Institute

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