The Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy ( sv, Kungliga Gustav Adolfs Akademien) in

Uppsala Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inha ...

is one of 18

Swedish royal academies The Royal Academies are independent organizations, founded on Royal command, that act to promote the arts, culture, and science in Sweden. The Swedish Academy and Academy of Sciences are also responsible for the selection of Nobel Prize laureate ...

and dedicated to the study of Swedish

folklore Folklore is shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group. This includes oral traditions such as Narrative, tales, legends, proverbs and jokes. They include material culture, r ...

. The name is often expanded to ("...for Swedish Folk Culture"). The Academy was founded on 6 November 1932, on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the death of King

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in the Battle of Lützen (1632), Battle of Lützen. It was initiated by the Professor of Nordic Languages, Jöran Sahlgren, and the first president was the historian and politician

Karl Gustaf Westman Karl Gustaf Westman (18 August 1876 – 24 January 1944) was a Swedish historian and political leader. Biography Westman attended Uppsala University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1897, Licentiate of Philosophy in 1904 and a Ph.D. 1905. ...

. The academy has 40 full members, excepting those who have reached the age of 70, and 30 foreign members. The Gustavus Adolphus Academy publishes the periodicals , founded in 1934 and ''Arv: Nordic yearbook of folklore'', founded in 1946, and (English title: ''Swedish dialects and folk traditions''), published since 1904 by the Archives for Dialect and Folklore studies in Uppsala and taken over by the Academy in 1996.

External links

Official website
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