National Archives of Sweden

The National Archives (Swedish: Riksarkivet ) in Stockholm is the State Archives of Sweden and subordinate to an administrative decision to the Ministry of Culture. The National Archives is the supreme authority of Archives in Sweden. Him are subject to the provincial archives ( landsarkiven ). The head of the authority of the imperial archivist ( riksarkivarie ).

History

The National Archives was founded in 1618 II under King Gustav Adolf and his chancellor Axel Oxenstierna as an independent institution in the Royal Chancery, and has as State Archives so far over and above the present borders of Sweden exceeding importance, as there also archival documents from the period of Sweden as a Baltic power of 17 are held until the 19th century. With the Gadebuschsammlung the Greifswald historian Thomas Henry Gadebusch stored there as the largest private collection of documents on the history of Pomerania from the Swedish Era in Scandinavia. The archive also contains the correspondence of Sven Hedin, the documentation of its Chinese- Swedish expedition and the documentation of its academic staff. The volume of letters from Sven Hedin includes about 50,000 by country and senders alphabetical letters; to 30,000 more letters are still archived disordered.

The archive pieces are often available online through the server of the archive.