Carl Jesper Benzelius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish bishop
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Place of Birth: Uppsala Cathedral Assembly, Uppsala County, Sweden
About Carl Jesper Benzelius
- Carl Jesper Benzelius (16 January 1714, Uppsala – 2 January 1793) was a theologian, professor, bishop of the Diocese of Strängnäs from 1776 to 1793, and a son to archbishop Erik Benzelius the younger. Born in Uppsala, Benzelius was brought up at the home of his grandfather, Bishop Jesper Svedberg.
- He was then guided by his uncle Henry Benzelius in Lund University and was there in 1738 graduated to Master of Arts, after which he was a few years spent in England, France and Holland.
- In 1741 he became extraordinary and ordinary court-preacher in 1742.
- Between 1743–44, he made a new travels abroad, and dwelt especially in Helmstedt, where he made his disputation under the famous Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, and became an honorary doctor of theology.
- He was a member of parliament in 1778 and 1786 and in 1750 he was called to Lund University as professor of theology.
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