Lund

Lund , city (1990 pop. 62,910), Malmöhus co., S Sweden. It is a commercial and industrial center and a rail junction. Manufactures include paper, packaging, printed materials, and clothing. Mentioned (c.920) in the sagas as Lunda, it became the Roman Catholic archiepiscopal see for Scandinavia in 1103-4 and subsequently flourished as an ecclesiastical and trade center. The city declined after it became (1536) a Lutheran bishopric, and it was devastated during the Danish-Swedish wars of the 17th cent. It passed definitively to Sweden in 1658 with Skåne prov. In 1668 Charles XI dedicated the Univ. of Lund, where the poet Esaias Tegner (1782-1846) later taught. The theological faculty of the university was well known in the 19th cent. The city is also the site of a technical university. Lund has a fine 11th-century Romanesque cathedral and a museum of folk customs.

Lund. Apart from one brief break, Lund was the seat of an archbishop from 1104 to 1536. The university dates from 1668. In the 19th cent. the theological faculty stood for a conservative and ‘High Church’ tradition in contrast to the liberalizing theology of Uppsala. In 1952 the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches held a conference here which enunciated what became known as the ‘Lund Principle’: ‘Should not our Churches … act together in all matters, except those in which deep doctrinal differences of opinion compel them to act separately?’

Lund, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, USA Sweden: founded c.1020 in what is now Malmöhus County, but which was then controlled by the Danes, by Canute II (c.995–1035), King of Denmark (as Knut, 1019–35) and King of England (as Canute I, 1016–35) with a Medieval Latin name of Londinum Gothorum ‘Londinum of the Goths’. The present name probably comes from the Old Scandinavian lundr ‘small wood’ or ‘grove’.