Editing Lund University (section)

=== Medieval origins ===
The city of [[Lund]] has a long history as a centre for learning and was the ecclesiastical centre and seat of the archbishop of [[Denmark]]. A [[cathedral school]] (the ''[[Katedralskolan, Lund|Katedralskolan]]'') for the training of [[clergy]] was established in 1085 and is today Scandinavia's [[List of oldest universities in continuous operation|oldest school]].

In 1425, a [[Franciscan]] ''[[studium generale]]'' (a [[medieval university]]) was founded in Lund next to the [[Lund Cathedral]] (with baccalaureate degree started in 1438), making it the oldest institution of higher education in Scandinavia followed by [[studium generale|''studia generalia'']] in [[Uppsala]] in 1477 and [[Copenhagen]] in 1479. After Sweden won Scania from Denmark in the 1658 [[Treaty of Roskilde]], the university was founded in 1666 on the location of the old ''studium generale'' next to [[Lund Cathedral]].<ref name="A Brief History of Lund University">{{Cite web|url=http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about/about-lund-university/a-brief-history|title=A Brief History of Lund University|access-date=2017-05-21|archive-date=2017-12-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201201026/http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about/about-lund-university/a-brief-history|url-status=live}}</ref> The ''studium generale'' had not survived the [[Lutheran Reformation]] of 1536, which is why the university is considered a separate institution when founded in 1666.