Henrik Heikel Explained

Henrik Heikel
Birth Date:14 January 1808
Birth Place:Oulu, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
Death Place:Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
Occupation:Lutheran priest, educator
Notable Works:Swedish: Lärobok i geometrien
Spouse:Wilhelmina Johanna Schauman
Children:11, including

Henrik Heikel (14 January 1808 – 14 March 1867) was a Finland-Swedish educator and priest.

Life

Heikel was born in Oulu, Finland in 1808. He began his studies in 1823, receiving his master of philosophy degree in 1832.[1] Heikel became a lecturer in philosophy and natural history at Åbo Gymnasium, now Åbo Academy, in Turku in 1835 and vicar of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland in Pedersöre in 1861.[2] Heikel took a great interest in many public affairs and held a position in the Diet of Finland in 1863–1864 and 1867.[3] He donated funds for the establishment of a children's school in Turku. At his own expense he set up a home for the deaf in Pedersöre in 1861, which was later taken over by the state.[4] [5] During the last famine in Finland he lent 30,000 marks to peasants. As an educator he published (Textbook in Geometry'), containing six books of Euclid's Elements and practical applications (3rd edition 1871).[6]

Heikel married Wilhelmina Johanna Schauman and had eleven children.[7] His children included Viktor Heikel, a gymnastics teacher and educator; Felix Heikel, a bank manager and politician;[8] and Anna Heikel, an educator and head of the school for the deaf founded along with her father. He was also the uncle of philologist and historian Ivar Heikel and grandfather of ethnologist Yngvar Heikel.[9]

Relationship with the Baptists

Heikel and his family also have a place in the history of the Baptists in Finland. In 1859, a number of members of the growing Baptist movement faced hearings in front of the Bishop's Chapter at the Turku Cathedral.[10] [11] Among the Lutheran clergy present was Heikel, who took an interest in the Baptists' beliefs and spoke to them to learn more, although he did not convert. After moving to Pedersöre in 1860, he and his family maintained a connection with the Baptists in Åland. After Heikel's death in Helsinki in 1867, both his son Viktor (co-founder of the Nya svenska samskolan) and daughter Anna were baptized in Stockholm by the Baptists. After Anna's return, she began to hold meetings and share material on Baptist teachings. The family received a visit from a Baptist pastor who had been at the hearing with Heikel ten years earlier; they held meetings and his preaching led to more conversions to the movement.[12]

Heikel's daughter Anna was also director and teacher of the Home for the Deaf, which operated until 1932.[13]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1883. 923-924 (Nordisk familjebok / 1800-talsutgåvan. 6. Grimsby - Hufvudskatt). live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210626084010/http://runeberg.org/nfaf/0466.html. 2021-06-26. 2021-06-26. runeberg.org. sv.
  2. 1906-03-15. Banbryterskor. Balder: Opartisk nykterhetstidning för alla. sv. Finlands svenska nykterhetsförbund. 6. 11. https://web.archive.org/web/20210628131354/https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/aikakausi/binding/887093?page=1&ocr=true. 2021-06-28.
  3. Book: Pekonen, Onni. Debating "the ABCs of parliamentary life" : the learning of parliamentary rules and practices in the late nineteenth-century Finnish Diet and the early Eduskunta. 2014. 978-951-39-5842-8. Jyväskylä. 954246523.
  4. Web site: Till minne av Dövstumskolan i Pedersöre-Jakobstad. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210628144236/https://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2014/08/19/till-minne-av-dovstumskolan-i-pedersore-jakobstad. 2021-06-28. 2021-06-26. svenska.yle.fi. sv-FI.
  5. Book: Jossfolk, Karl-Gustav. Bildning för alla : en pedagogikhistorisk studie kring abnormskolornas tillkomst i Finland och deras pionjärer som medaktörer i bildningsprocessen 1846-1892. 2001. Svenska skolhistoriska föreningen i Finland. Svenska skolhistoriska föreningen i Finland, (Nord Print). 952-91-3442-8. Helsingfors. sv. 58384770.
  6. Web site: Linnström. Hjalmar. 328 (Svenskt boklexikon. Åren 1830-1865 / Förra delen. A - L). live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210626084013/http://runeberg.org/linnstrom/1/0332.html. 2021-06-26. 2021-06-26. runeberg.org. sv.
  7. Web site: HEIKEL, Viktor. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210711205916/https://www.blf.fi/artikel.php?id=5372. 2021-07-11. 2021-07-04. Biografiskt lexikon för Finland. sv.
  8. Web site: 1909. 255-256 (Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 11. Harrisburg - Hypereides). live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210712040854/http://runeberg.org/nfbk/0144.html. 2021-07-12. 2021-07-04. runeberg.org. sv.
  9. Web site: Ivar Heikel 1861-1952 i Uppslagsverket Finland. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210815091629/http://www.nykarlebyvyer.nu/sidor/texter/pers/heikeliu.htm. 2021-08-15. 2022-02-02. www.nykarlebyvyer.nu. sv.
  10. Sundqvist, Alfons (January 1954). "Glimpses of the Baptist Work in Finland" (PDF). The Fraternal. 91. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-04.
  11. Web site: Baptisti.fi Historiaa. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210628084632/https://www.baptisti.fi/suomen-baptistikirkko/historiaa.html. 2021-06-28. 2021-06-24. Suomen Baptistikirkko verkossa. fi.
  12. Web site: De första baptisterna i Finland. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160307173605/http://www.skillnaden.net/info/helsingfors.htm. 2016-03-07. sv.
  13. Web site: Heikel, Henrik (1808 - 1867). live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210628161211/https://kansallisbiografia.fi//kansallisbiografia/henkilo/6045. 2021-06-28. 2021-06-24. Kansallisbiografia. fi.

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