Johannes Schefferus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Johannes Schefferus

Swedish academic

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1621

Place of Birth: Strasbourg, France

Date of Death: 26-Mar-1679

Profession: historian, university teacher, archaeologist, philologist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Johannes Schefferus

  • Johannes Schefferus (February 2, 1621 – March 26, 1679) was one of the most important Swedish humanists of his time.
  • He was also known as Angelus and is remembered for writing hymns.Schefferus was born in Strasbourg, then part of the Holy Roman Empire.
  • He came from the patrician family (Scheffer), studied at university there and briefly in Leiden, and was in 1648 made professor Skytteanus of eloquence and government at Uppsala University, a chair he held until his death in 1679. Schefferus also spent time on philological and archaeological studies.
  • His De orbibus tribus aureis became the first publication on Swedish archaeology.
  • The story of the Sami people, Lapponia (1673) became popular around Europe but was not translated into Swedish (as Lappland) until 1956.
  • His posthumous publication, Suecia literata ("The Learned Sweden") (1680) is a Swedish history of science bibliography. Schefferus was later in life involved in an intellectual dispute, particularly with Olof Verelius (1618–1682) over the location of the Temple at Uppsala.
  • He argued that the temple should be found near the current location of Helga Trefaldighets kyrka (Church of the Holy Trinity) in Uppsala.
  • It is today known that his opponents usually used forgery to meet his argumentation.
  • This was presumably the reason that parts of the largest surviving Gothic text, Codex Argenteus, were retouched. In 1648, Schefferus married Regina Loccenia, the daughter of a previous (1628–1642) professor skytteanus, Johannes Loccenius, and had two sons (see Scheffer).

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