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Göran Bexell

Swedish seniorprofessor and f. Vice-Chancellor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ5575116 ↗
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Göran Bertil David Bexell (born 24 December 1943 in Högsby) is a Swedish professor in ethics. Between 2003 and 2008, he served as the rector, i.e. vice-chancellor, of Lund University.

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“Göran Bexell” enters the record as swedish seniorprofessor and f. Vice-Chancellor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Göran, Bexell and Swedish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1943, 2003, 2008—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1943-12-24, 1943—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Göran, Bexell and Swedish.
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“Göran Bexell” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Göran, Bexell and Swedish provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5575116. VIAF identifies the subject as 11196352. The Library of Congress control number is n82115267. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1943, 2003 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Göran Bexell” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.