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OTHER MORE IMPORTANT FOUNDATIONS FOR THE PROMOTION OF CULTURE. 4(19
The Lars Hierta Memorial Foundation. This foundation was instituted at
Stockholm, in 1877, by Mrs. T Vilhelmina Hierta, in memory of her låte husband,
Lars Hierta (1801—72), who was a member of the Riksdag and the founder
of the Independent and Liberal press in Sweden; it has for its chief aim to
bring about and encourage scientific investigations, discoveries, and inventions;
to support social improvements; to encourage and impart instruction in
handicrafts and trades of general utility; and to advance in every way the sound
education of the masses. The foundation, the capital of which now amounts to
about 800 000 kronor, annually expends about 34 000 kronor of interest,
three-fourths of which sum, according to the regulations, are distributed by
the Board, which consists of five to seven members. Twice a year (March
and November) the distribution of this money is made by grants to such
individuals (men and women; as can promote the aims of the foundation. The
Board has also the righi of taking the initiative itself. Among the
undertakings started by the Board, we may mention: The Hygienic Museum at the
Caroline Institute, workshops for children, a cookery-school for girls of the
working class, a school kitchen with courses given for teachers, a first school in
metal work for elementary scholars, bursaries for the promotion of temperance,
bursaries for newspaper men, lady medical students, and dentists, etc.
The Board has many times granted travelling expenses for the purpose of
obtaining information regarding important institutions or social conditions, such
as for instance: to North America in order to study the organization of mixed
schools; to England in preparation for establishing "The Charity Organization"
in Stockholm, Octavia Hill’s system of workmen’s dwellings, the school kitchens,
etc.; to France and Germany for studies in bacteriology and several social
questions, such as the organization of workmen’s dwellings, sloyd for girls
in schools, provision for the care of working girls in factories, etc.
Moreover, the foundation has given encouragement and pecuniary assistance to a
vast number of scientific investigations in the various departments of geology,
botany, zoology, physics, chemistry, meteorology, astronomy, medicine, and
hygiene. See the report issued by the Board of the foundation, covering 25 years
of work, published in 1903.
The Röhss Fund of one million kronor was bequeathed to the city of
Gothenburg by the merchant, C. W. Röhss (1834—1900), from the interest of which
4 % a year shall be set aside for a distribution fund until it amounts to 1/s
million, when it may be utilized by the Town Council of Gothenburg to
promote business, industries, and communicution facilities: 510 000 kr. were
allotted for these purposes in 1911.
The Ch. F. Lindberg Foundation. Charles Felix Lindberg (1840—1909), a
business man of Gothenburg, bequeathed to that city his fortune, approaching
million kronor, from the proceeds of which, after the payment of certain
annuities, one-tenth is to be laid by as capital, until it reaches 3 million kronor.
The Town Council of Gothenburg may use the proceeds three years from his
death, and thereafter every third year, in the first place for beautifying and
adorning the city by laying out squares or erecting statues and works of art,
and so forth. When distribution for these purposes has been made, the Council
may in certain cases apply the resources to other purposes of public utility,
similarly to the regulations of the Renström fund; the first distribution (of 196 000
kronor) was made in 1913.
Karl Robert Forsgrén (1838—1901), a partner in the wine business of
Forsgrén & Wilcken, bequeathed to the city of Stockholm, by his will dated May
16, 1899, a large part of the fortune he left, to be administered by the Town
Council, under the title of the Forsgrén Fund; it must not be allowed to fall
below 2 million kronor. The interest earned during*five consecutive years shall,
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