Aeschillus Petraeus Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific Prefix:The Right Reverend
Aeschillus Petraeus
Bishop of Turku
Church:Church of Sweden
Diocese:Turku
Appointed:20 October 1652
Term:1652–1657
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Predecessor:Isaacus Rothovius
Successor:Johannes Terserus
Consecration:24 October 1652
Birth Date:1593
Birth Place:Grums, Swedish Empire
Death Date:27 September 1657
Death Place:Turku, Swedish Empire (Present-day Finland)
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Nationality:Swedish
Religion:Lutheran
Parents:Olavus Eskilli Petræus & Katarina
Spouse:N.N. Andersdotter Petraeus
Anna Henriksdotter Kock
Children:5

Æschillus (Eskil) Petræus (born 1593 in Grums, Sweden; died 27 September 1657 in Turku, now in Finland) was Bishop of Turku in 1652–1657.

Biography

Petræus was lecturer and Dean of the grammar school in Turku. He was also the first professor of theology at Turku Academy and Rector of the University. Petræus was from the Swedish-speaking part of Sweden, but well versed in the Finnish language. He, among other things, led a Bible Translation Committee and published the first grammar of the Finnish language, Linguae Finnicae brevis institutio in 1649.[1] On 20 October 1652 he was appointed Bishop of Turku and was consecrated on 24 October at the Storkyrkan in Stockholm.

Notes and References

  1. Æschillus Petræus, Linguæ finnicæ brevis institutio, exhibens vocum flectiones per casus, gradus & tempora, nec non partium indeclinabilium significationem, dictionumq; constructionem & prosodiam. Ad usum accommodata (Åbo: Wald, 1649), http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fd2015-00009344.