Nylands Nation is one the 15 student nations

Nations at Finnish universities

In Finland, student nations are student organisations within which a large proportion of extra-curricular student activity takes place...

 at the University of Helsinki

University of Helsinki

The University of Helsinki is a university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but was founded in the city of Turku in 1640 as The Royal Academy of Turku, at that time part of the Swedish Empire. It is the oldest and largest university in Finland with the widest range of disciplines available...

, Finland's oldest, Swedish-speaking and established in 1643 at The Royal Academy of Turku

The Royal Academy of Turku

The Royal Academy of Turku was the first university in Finland, and the only university in present-day Finland to be founded when it was still a part of Sweden. In 1809, after Finland became a Grand Duchy under the suzerainty of the Russian Tzar, it was renamed the Imperial Academy of Turku...

. In 1828, the Academy moved to Helsinki taking the name "University" and Nylands Nation moved there along with the other Nations. Since 1904, the house of Nylands Nation, a building designed by Karl Hård af Segerstad in the national romantic

National Romantic Style

The National Romantic style was a Nordic architectural style that was part of the national romantic movement during the late 19th and early 20th century. Designers turned to early Medieval and even prehistoric precedents to construct a style appropriate to the perceived character of a people...

 style, has stood at Kasarmikatu 40.

Friendship nations

Nylands nation has close connections with a number of student nations and fraternities at several foreign universities.

Inspectors

Nylands nation's inspectors

Georg Alanus 1643-1655 | Samuel Hartman 1649-1653 | Petrus Bergius 1653-1655, 1655-1665 | Abraham Thauvonius 1665-1667 | Nils Tunander 1668-1679 | Daniel Achrelius 1679-1692 | Magnus Steen  1692-1695 | Christiern Alander 1695-1701 | Lars Tammelin 1701-1717 | Johan Thorwöste 1723-1737 | Herman Dietrich Spöring 1738-1747 | Carolus Mesterton 1748-1773 | Andreas Planman 1773-1800 | Frans Michael Franzén Frans Michael Franzén Frans Michael Franzén was a Swedish and Finnish poet.-Biography:Franzén was born in Oulu , Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland, which at the time was an integral part of Sweden. At thirteen he entered the Royal Academy of Turku, where he attended the lectures of Henrik Gabriel Porthan , a pioneer in...  1800-1811 | Johan Fredrik Wallenius 1811-1826 | Hans Henrik Fattenborg 1826-1831 | Johan Gabriel Linsén 1832-1840 | Alexander Blomqvist 1840-1847 | Immanuel Ilmoni 1847-1852 | Edvard Jonas Vilhelm af Brunér 1868-1870 | Carl Gustaf Estlander 1870-1884 | Axel Olof Freudenthal Axel Olof Freudenthal Axel Olof Freudenthal , was a Swedish-speaking Finnish philologist and politician.He was born in Siuntio, and studied at the University of Helsinki where the nationalistic movement struggle between the Fennomans and the Svecomans was raging...  1884-1886 | Rabbe Axel Wrede 1886-1895 | Maximus Videkind af Schultén 1895 | Rabbe Axel Wrede 1898-1900 | Jakob Wilhelm Chydenius 1900-1904 | Wilhelm Pipping 1904-1907 | Axel Gabriel Wallensköld 1907-1916 | Knut Hugo Pipping 1916-1924 | Elias Ragnar Furuhjelm 1924-1937 | Gunnar Castrén 1937-1945 | Hugo E. Pipping 1946-1950 | Bo Palmgren 1950-1960 | Georg Henrik von Wright Georg Henrik von Wright Georg Henrik von Wright was a Finnish philosopher, who succeeded Ludwig Wittgenstein as professor at the University of Cambridge. He published in English, Finnish, German, and in Swedish. Belonging to the Swedish-speaking minority of Finland, von Wright also had Finnish and 17th-century Scottish...  1961 | Nils Oker-Blom 1961-1968 | Jarl Gallen Jarl Gallén Jarl Wilhelm Erik Gallén, 23 May 1908 in Helsinki, 27 March 1990 in Helsinki, was a Finnish historian and Swedish-speaking professor in history at Helsinki University 1964-75....  1968-1971 | Carl Fredrik Meinander 1972-1978 | Henrik Wallgren 1978-1984 | Johan Järnefelt 1985-1992 | Carl G. Gahmberg 1992-

Curators

• Axel Nyman, 2008-
• Jan D. Oker-Blom 2005-2008
• Jonas Sundman 2002-2005
• Charlotta af Hällström 1999-2002
• Kati Sandelin 1996-1999

Further reading

• Eva Ahl (red.) m.fl., Minns du hur ödet oss förde tillhopa ...? Nylands nations och Värmlands nations gästvänskapsförbund 125 år, Nyland XI, Helsingfors, 2000, ISBN 952-91-3105-4
• Eva Ahl (red.), Bränn, & Maria Vainio, 1904, Nyland XIII (Helsingfors, 2004) ISBN 952-99405-0-5
• Michaela Bränn & Maria Vainio-Kurtakko, Galleria Nylandensis. Nylands nations samlingar, Nyland XIV, Helsingfors, 2008 ISBN 978-952-99405-1-6
• Joakim Hansson (red.) & Lars-Folke Landgrén, "Stark ström med egna vågor går genom hafvet. Nylands nations historia 1643–1993, Nyland X, Helsingfors, 1993, ISBN 952-90-4928-5, ISSN 99-0853328-2
• Arne Jörgensen, Nyländska avdelningens matrikel 1640–1868, Nyland VII, Helsingfors, 1911,
• Folke Landgrén, Nyländska avdelningens matrikel 1869–1900, Nyland IX, Helsingfors, 1932,
• Maria Vainio (red.), Nylands nationshus 1901–2001, Nyland XII, Helsingfors, 2001