Society of Sciences in Lund.

About Society of Sciences in Lund

The New Society of Letters at Lund is a scientific academy founded in 1920. The society's aim is to gather younger academics - Docents - in the fields of humanities, theology, social sciences, and law at Lund University in order "to promote scientific research in the humanities". The founders were the Sanskrit researcher Herbert Petersson, the folklore scholar Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, and the linguist Jöran Sahlgren, with the assistance of the historian Lauritz Weibull. The name was inspired by name of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala. The society's current president and vice-president are Elsa Trolle Önnerfors and Valentin Jeutner.