The University of Helsinki, in Finnish Helsingin yliopisto and in Swedish Helsingfors universitet, is a public university in Helsinki, Finland. It is the oldest and largest university in the country and enrols over 30,000 students annually. The university traces its origins back to 1640, when it was established in Turku under the Swedish Empire. Following the Great Fire of Turku, the institution relocated to Helsinki in 1828 with the backing of Tsar Alexander I.
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The University of Helsinki (Finnish: Helsingin yliopisto, HY; Swedish: Helsingfors universitet, HU) is a public university in Helsinki, Finland.
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The university traces its origins back to 1640 when it was established in Turku under the Swedish Empire.
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He became a geologist for the Finnish Survey in 1922 and joined as a professor of geology at Helsinki in 1924 working there until 1954.
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In 1877, Mittag-Leffler became the professor of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
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