Stockholm, Sweden/stock208-About 1800 Riddarholmen drawing
Previous | Home | NextIn this drawing of about 1800, the buildings of the Collegium Medicum are seen scattered about the western side of Riddarholmen. View is northeast. The Court-Bakery (Slottsbageriet) is the building in the middle of the picture, above the rowers, where Berzelius had his 8 x 6 meter laboratory when he was the first professor of medical chemistry at the Collegium Medicium. Being given this professorship was most providential, because without this post, Berzelius could very well have continued a profession as a medical doctor for the indigent, forever lost to chemistry. He moved to Kungsholmen in 1816 when the Karolinska Institute (which succeeded Collegium Medicum) established a chemistry department there. See next view for labels.
