Karolinska Institutet (Caroline Institute)
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Karolinska Institutet (Caroline Institute)

Stockholm, Stockholms kommun, Stockholms län, Sweden – *No GPS coordinates

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Founded in 1810 and named for King Carl XIII, the official name of this institution of Nobel Prize renown is (the Swedish equivalent of) Caroline Medico-Surgical Institute. Its location until the 1940's was in a complex of buildings at Hantverkargatan 3, begun in 1816 on the eastern part of King's Isle (Kungsholmen) next to the current City Hall of Stockholm. These buildings, in the photo from about 1910, housed the Institute of Anatomy, at first in the building on the right, subsequently in the center building completed by 1896. The City of Stockholm owns the well kept old structures today and has various administrative offices in them. City Hall tower can be seen in the background in the 2007 photo (it didn't exist in 1910). There is a modernistic statue in the lobby of the main building, named "Aghios ho ophoros" by its Swedish sculptress Kajsa Mattas, and placed there by the city. She says its sole large leg, also the figure of a whole man, Christophoros balancing on slippery rocks with a child over his head, symbolizes "the God we all must carry". In the early part of the 20th century, Stockholm hospitals regularly sent unclaimed or donated bodies of the deceased to this building, contributing to medical research and training. In fact, some of their death ledgers even had columns marked "Burial" or "K. I.". This was also in an era when a shortage of cemeteries and grave space in the Stockholm area was getting acute. The Karolinska Institute is now located in Solna, north of Stockholm, near the major hospital by the same name.
Founded in 1810 and named for King Carl XIII, the official name of this institution of Nobel Prize renown is (the Swedish equivalent of) Caroline Medico-Surgical Institute. Its location until the 1940's was in a complex of buildings at Hantverkargatan 3, begun in 1816 on the eastern part of King's Isle (Kungsholmen) next to the current City Hall of Stockholm. These buildings, in the photo from about 1910, housed the Institute of Anatomy, at first in the building on the right, subsequently in the center building completed by 1896. The City of Stockholm owns the well kept old structures today and has various administrative offices in them. City Hall tower can be seen in the background in the 2007 photo (it didn't exist in 1910). There is a modernistic statue in the lobby of the main building, named "Aghios ho ophoros" by its Swedish sculptress Kajsa Mattas, and placed there by the city. She says its sole large leg, also the figure of a whole man, Christophoros balancing on slippery rocks with a child over his head, symbolizes "the God we all must carry". In the early part of the 20th century, Stockholm hospitals regularly sent unclaimed or donated bodies of the deceased to this building, contributing to medical research and training. In fact, some of their death ledgers even had columns marked "Burial" or "K. I.". This was also in an era when a shortage of cemeteries and grave space in the Stockholm area was getting acute. The Karolinska Institute is now located in Solna, north of Stockholm, near the major hospital by the same name.

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  • Added: 21 Nov 2006
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2197483