university of turku

Turku is an old college town. In 1640, Queen Christina of Sweden built the third college in Sweden–Finland, the Royal Academy of Turku. In 1820, J.V. Snell man, Elias Lonnrot and J.L. Runeberg mulled over in the Academy. Huhtamäki gathering gave a statue devoted to these awesome men. The "Three Witty Men" statue was made by artist Harry Kivijärvi and it is arranged by the college's principle building, on the city side. The main college in the autonomous Finland was the Swedish talking University of Helsinki. The Finnish intellectual elite felt it was critical that the nation ought to have another Finnish college. The stores were gathered with an open raising money and 22,040 individuals added to the reason. The University of Turku was built in 1920. In those days, the college was framed by the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. That year, the college obtained the 1878 manufactured Phoenix inn, which was arranged comfortable edge of the business sector square. Initially the inn was implied as an interim cabin however the college wound up staying there for a long time. The Faculty of Medicine was created in 1943 to serve a country in war.In the 1940's the college got a prominent estate. Johnsson/Joutsen siblings, children of a smith from the town of Nummenmäki (these days fused into the town of Turku), who had completed their  prosperities on the Klondike golden field in Yukon, Canada. The siblings had no beneficiaries and Karl Fredrik Joutsen willed his entire fortune, including his stone house and gold discoveries, to the University of Turku. On account of the gift, the college had the capacity move from the cramped Phoenix inn to the Ryssänmäki or Vesilinnanmäki Hill. The college's gold fortune incorporates gold watches and gold pieces from Klondike, the biggest measuring 240g.

The Faculty of Law was created in 1960. The Faculty of Social Sciences left from the Faculty of Humanities in 1967 and in 1974 the Faculty of Education was built. The private University of Turku was a little organization. It was nationalized in 1974. The college's extensive years were in the 1960's however the development proceeds with still. The quantity of degrees is expanding and postgraduate instruction is made more productive. Of late, the extramural studies sorted out by the Brahea Center for Training and Development, the Open college showing and the creating of financial life have gotten to be considerably more prominent than some time recently. In 2007, transactions between the University of Turku and the Turku School of Economics began. The college consortium started its work the first of August 2008 and in January 2009 the sheets of the consortium colleges chose to union the University of Turku and the Turku School of Economics to another college beginning from January fi