Karolinska förbundet is a

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for the study of the

Caroline era The Caroline era is the period in English and Scottish history named for the 24-year reign of Charles I (1625–1649). The term is derived from ''Carolus'', the Latin for Charles. The Caroline era followed the Jacobean era, the reign of Charles's ...

in Swedish history, i.e. the rule of kings Charles X,

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and Charles XII, 1654–1718. The society was founded in 1910, with the purpose of "through furthering of scholarly research deepen and broaden the knowledge of the Caroline era, in particular the time of Charles XII, and awaken a more vivid interest in the Swedish people for the period" (as quoted in a contemporaneous article in the Swedish encyclopedia ''

Nordisk familjebok ''Nordisk familjebok'' (, "Nordic Family Book") is a Swedish encyclopedia that was published in print from between 1876 and 1993, and that is now fully available in digital form via Project Runeberg at Linköping University. Despite their consi ...

''). The first chairman of the society was Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland (1861–1951). The main achievement is the publication of the yearbook, the ''Karolinska Förbundets Årsbok'' (KFÅ), which has been published continually since the foundation in 1910. The first editor (1910–1922) of the yearbook was the historian Professor Arthur Stille, succeeded by Professor Nils Herlitz. Some articles in the early volumes of the society yearbook show a nationalist and militarist bias typical of the period. Although many articles for obvious reasons still focus on military history, there is today a larger number of articles on the social history of the period. In this respect the society is similar to another Swedish society devoted to the study of the time period of a certain monarch, the Carl Johans-förbundet.

References

*''Nordisk familjebok'', vol. 13 (1910), col
1133
*''Nordisk familjebok'', vol. 36 (suppl., 1924), col

External links

Karolinska förbundet
official website
Karolinska Förbundets Årsbok
bibliography of articles 1910-1984 (PDF-file) {{DEFAULTSORT:Karolinska forbundet Learned societies of Sweden