Svea ock Göta Riken med Finland och Norland afritade i Stockholm år 1747 - [Översikten]

Stockholm : G. Biurman 1747

Dissertationer, Kungliga Akademin i Åbo

Kungliga Akademin i Åbo var verksam mellan åren 1640 och 1827. Det finns en omfattande samling dissertationer från den tiden vid akademibiblioteket. Samlingen är inte fullständig. Samlingen har tillkommit genom gåvor från både Sverige och Finland. De svenska universitetsbiblioteken sände frikostigt dupletter från sina samlingar, och från tryckerihistoriska biblioteket på Skansen kom betydande mängder gammalt åbotryck. Bland privata välgörare kan nämnas professor Artur Rindell, generalkonsul Axel Solitander och generalkonsul Sven A. Lovén, men framför allt en svensk donator, löjnant Thore Virgin, en av Sveriges mest betydande boksamlare under 1900-talet. Han bidrog med en betydande kollektion, och ställde därtill en penningsumma för antikvariska förvärv till bibliotekets förfogande. Samlingen är okatalogiserad, men de tryck som ingår är förprickade i ett referensexemplar av Vallinkoski, Jorma Turun akatemian väitöskirjat 1642-1828. Helsinki 1828. En presentation av samlingen återfinns på bibliotekets hemsida, http://bibbild.abo.fi/diss/dissaml.htm Samlingen omfattar totalt 3.249 volymer.

Skönlitteratur – en specialsamling rikssvensk skönlitteratur

Samlingen med signum HB IVb2 finns vid huvudbiblioteket och innehåller rikssvensk skönlitteratur förutom barnlitteratur. Samlingen tillväxer kontinuerligt. Barnlitteraturen ingår Barnbokssamlingen. Grunden för specialsamlingen rikssvensk skönlitteratur lades vid akademins invigning år 1919. Riksföreningen för svenskhetens bevarande i utlandet gjorde ett upprop i hela Sverige att det nygrundade svenskspråkiga universitetet i grannlandet behövde litteratur. Strömmen bokdonationer fortsatte sedan genom åren att komma från Sverige, men betydande bokdonationer kom också från hemlandet. Det kom bokdonationer från enskilda personer, från sterbhus, från institutioner och från föreningar. Bland föreningar i Sverige kan förutom ovannämnda riksförening nämnas Föreningen Svensk-Finlands Vänner i Stockholm, Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt och Föreningen Konung Oscar II:s vandringsbibliotek. Bland stora donationer från institutioner kan nämnas de 400 volymer som Göteborgs stadsbibliotek donerade i mitten av 40-talet och de 800 volymer som Kungliga biblioteket i Stockholm donerade i slutet av 50-talet. Bland donationer från hemlandet kan speciellt nämnas vicehäradshövding Arvid Souranders samling böcker skrivna av Strindberg samt hans samling böcker skrivna av Almqvist. En annan speciellt värdefull specialsamling som biblioteket erhållit består av äldre svensk dramatisk litteratur. Samlingen är kronologiskt ordnad men okatalogiserad. Beståndet finns förprickat i ett exemplar av G.E. Klemmings Sveriges dramatiska litteratur till och med 1875. Med anledning av att Åbo Akademi fyllde 50 år förband sig över femtio rikssvenska förlag i januari 1968 att till biblioteket ställa till förfogande ett exemplar av varje bok som förlagen utgav. Denna s.k. förlagsgåva har med åren minskat i omfång och betydelse, dels har förlagsvärlden ändrats så att flertalet förlag har upphört att existera och dels har bibliotekets resurser blivit bättre och biblioteket kompletterar samlingen genom inköp. Den rikssvenska skönlitteraturen söks i Alma med sökfunktionen Signum och söktermen HB IVb2. En del litteratur tryckt före 1980 skall sökas manuellt i huvudbibliotekets systematiska kortkatalog, men retroaktiv inmatning i Alma av litteratur tryckt mellan 1830 och 1979 pågår.

Om tennets och dess malmers beskaffenhet

Invocatio: I.J.N.

Conversioni al cattolicesimo a Roma tra Sei e Settecento. La presenza degli scandinavi nell’Ospizio dei Convertendi.

In my PhD dissertation, I have examined a group of people of Scandinavian origin received by Ospizio dei Convertendi. This group has been hitherto largely unknown to historical research. The Ospizio was an institute founded by the Oratorian Congregation in Rome in 1673 to provide religious instruction and material aid to both recent and aspirant converts to Roman Catholicism. My research traces the profile of converts and a typology of motives, examining different factors which influenced the conversion process. I show that the key factors were often of a social rather than a religious nature. Moreover, I have analyzed the hospice in the context of Counter-Reformation charity as well. In terms of numbers, the Scandinavians formed a somewhat marginal yet not insignificant group within the Roman hospice. Out of a total of 2203 guests received between 1673 and 1706, 4.6 % were Scandinavians: 74 Swedes (including Finland and Livonia) and 27 Danes (including Norway). They came from a rigorously Protestant region which reacted to Catholicism with severe legislative measures. Converts to Catholicism risked confiscation of their goods, expulsion or even capital punishment. Since both Sweden and Denmark were practically impenetrable to Catholicism at the time and clandestine missionary attempts often failed before they had even properly started, the Roman Catholic Church shifted its interest towards Northerners arriving in Rome, a preferred destination for young noblemen, artists and migrant craftsmen. The material related to Ospizio dei Convertendi, conserved in the Vatican archives, is a scarcely known yet unusually rich source, not only for the religious history of our continent, but also for social history and the study of migration in early modern Europe. It contains a wealth of information about members of the subordinate classes, of their travels and lives in Europe. The profile delineated in these documents is of individuals who had a wide range of different professions and different aspirations. These documents encompass a vast social spectrum that was highly mobile on a continent which by that time had become pluriconfessional. Therefore, these migrants faced the complex religious reality in their everyday life. The principal corpus of my research consists of two types of manuscript sources created for administrative and in a way also for apologetic purposes of the Roman Catholic Church. My starting point is the Primo registro generale of Ospizio dei Convertendi. This is a volume in which the following information about each guest was registered: name, nationality, city of origin, age, sex, profession, confession professed before converting, date of arrival, departure, abjuration and baptism. Typically, the convert was male, originating from Stockholm or Copenhagen, from 21 to 30 years of age. The biggest occupational groups in descending order were soldiers, noblemen, craftsmen and sailors. Thus the data reflects a multiform reality of interurban and long distance migration, ideals regarding the education of young noblemen and gentry as well as the need of European armies to hire foreign mercenaries in their various campaigns. Against this background the almost total absence of women is hardly surprising: there is only one woman in the material I have studied. The second main source, Nota degl’ospiti ricevuti e spese fatte per essi, sheds more light on the choices of the converts, their motivations and their lives outside Scandinavia before reaching Rome. This narrative material permits an analysis which completes but also goes far beyond the columns of the Institute’s general register. This material consists of reports written by Catholic priests based on an interview conducted upon each guest’s arrival. The material frequently includes information on what the converts would do following their departure from the Institute as well. These sources have a specific narrative form and contain short biographies, list reasons for converting and information about the journey from the North to the Mediterranean - a journey which in many cases took several years. Moreover, they show that certain unorthodox practices such as calling on the saints and pleading for help from them were not uncommon in the Protestant popular religion. The recording of information on conversions from Protestantism to Catholicism reflects both religious and social interest on the part of the receiving institute. The information obtained was used for the purposes of religious teaching, for finding adequate ways of inserting the convert into Italian society so that he could earn a living, and to find effective methods to convert others with a similar cultural and geographical background. The stories recorded were based on interviews with the newly-arrived, information obtained from a travel companion or fellow countrymen, or from written documents the aspirant converts carried with them. These sources illustrate, although sometimes in rather simplified ways, the circumstances and motivations which were relevant to the choice of changing one’s confession. In addition, I have examined petitions addressed to the hospice and other Roman authorities in order to get financial aid. These petitions were written by Italian scrittori, and they contain certain conventions and topoi of presenting the conversion with the purpose of improving the chances of obtaining financial aid. It is through these filters, which may seem initially almost invisible, that the remote voice of the converts reaches us. The results of the analysis are particularly interesting because they disagree with some of the principal conclusions of previous work on the subject. First, earlier research has focused almost exclusively on the conversions of noblemen, and has argued, second, that the Queen Christina of Sweden was the driving force behind their change of confession. The sources examined for this dissertation present a profile of long-distance migrants, many of them members of the subordinate classes, who were looking for ways to make their living in Europe. These people had in many cases left their country of origin several years earlier and not for religious reasons, so, crucially, we are not dealing with confessional migration in these cases. Rather, conversion was a complex process, intricately tied up with strategies of survival, integration and upward social mobility. At the same time, while these components are significant on their own right, they do not necessarily point to the absence of motivations of a more clearly religious nature.

Victoria Teatern : Dollariprinsessa

Ohjelma. Rouva Rosa Carla-Haglundin vierailijanäytös. Dollaripirinsessa, 3-näyt. operetti.

Victoria Teatern : Siveä Susanna

Ohjelma. Rouva Rosa Carla-Haglundin vierailijanäytös. Siveä Susanna, 3-näyt. operetti.

Victoria Teatern : Jenny Lind

Ohjelma. Oopperalaulajatar Sigrid Brandel'in ja kreivi Hans von Rosen'in vierailunäytös. Jenny Lind : näytelmä lauluineen 3 näyt. (4 kuvaelmaa). Mainoksia.