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Sten Sture the Elder 93
Young men who wished to secure a higher education
had to make difficult and expensive journeys to Paris,
or some ’other foreign city, where a university might
be found. To afford young men of limited means an
opportunity to continue their studies at home, the
archbishop, backed up by the regent, procured the
papal sanction to the founding of Uppsala University,
Uppsala University.
1477. Two years later the University of Copenhagen
was founded. But it required more than a hundred
years to make Uppsala University what it should be.
There was a scarcity of capable teachers, scarcity of
means, and, hence, also scarcity of books. Books were
still very costly, although printing presses were begin-
ning to be established in Sweden.
The Art of Printing. About the middle of the fif-
teenth century John Gutenberg of Mainz invented the
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