Olaus Verelius, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Olaus Verelius

Scholar of Old Norse and Scandinavian studies

Date of Birth: 12-Feb-1618

Date of Death: 03-Jan-1682

Profession: historian, university teacher

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Olaus or Olof Verelius (12 February 1618 – 3 January 1682) was a Swedish scholar of Northern antiquities who published the first edition of a saga and the first Old Norse-Swedish dictionary and is held to have been the founder of the Hyperborean School which led to Gothicism.