The History of - Göteborgs universitet

1989 Konstindustriskolan is renamed Högskolan för design
och konsthantverk (School of Design and Crafts).
1990 a large portion of the Faculty of Social Sciences moves to new facilities
along Sprängkullsgatan.
School of Business, Economics and Law
A Government commission in the 1890s found that
the university colleges in Stockholm and Gothenburg
should establish professorships for the teaching
of business studies. In 1901 the Gothenburg
University College received a large donation from a
wholesale merchant named August Röhss, and the
funds were used to establish three professorships –
one in economics and sociology, one in geography,
commercial geography and ethnography, and one
in political science with statistics. Following a number
of additional donations, the School of Business,
Economics and Law could be inaugurated in 1923.
In the 1920s, Gothenburg was Sweden’s commercial
hub and largest port city, with a flourishing
shipbuilding industry. The city’s industrial and trade
companies and shipbrokers had expressed a need for
internationally oriented higher education for trade
and law since the 1880s.
The School of Business, Economics and Law
was inaugurated on 1 October 1923 by Rector Otto
Nordenskjöld. The School relied on large donations,
and was developed with German counterparts in
mind. The initial nine students studied economics,
economic geography, law and commercial techniques,
as well as German, English, French and Russian.
The School became part of the University of
Gothenburg in 1971.
24 The History of the University of Gothenburg