Ivar August Heikel (16 January 1861 – 8 October 1952) was a Finnish

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

and

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. He was the nephew of priest and educator Henrik Heikel. He was also the cousin of gymnastics teacher Viktor, educator

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, banker and politician Felix, and ethnographer Axel Heikel as well as maternal grandfather to sociologist

Erik Allardt ''Erik'' Anders Allardt (9 August 1925 – 25 August 2020) was a Finland, Finnish sociology, sociologist. Allardt served as professor of sociology at the University of Helsinki between 1955 and 1991, and as chancellor (education), chancellor of ...

. Heikel was born in 1861 in Nykarleby, Finland to pastor August Heikel and Aurora Emilia née von Knorring and had seven siblings. Heikel became associate professor (

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) of

Classical Philology Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages, ...

at the

University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki (, ; UH) is a public university in Helsinki, Finland. The university was founded in Turku in 1640 as the Royal Academy of Åbo under the Swedish Empire, and moved to Helsinki in 1828 under the sponsorship of Alexander ...

in 1885 and was professor of Greek Literature between 1888 and 1926. He was rector of the university from 1907–1911 and 1920–1922. In his extensive writings he dealt mainly with ancient subjects. He developed a particular interest in early Christian scholar

Eusebius of Caesarea Eusebius of Caesarea (30 May AD 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilius, was a historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist from the Roman province of Syria Palaestina. In about AD 314 he became the bishop of Caesarea Maritima. ...

. As emeritus, he devoted himself to translation work as well as translating Eusebius' ''Church History'' into Swedish and Finnish.L. Arvi P. Poijärvi, Ilmari Havu, Mauno Jääskeläinen (eds.): ''Kuka kukin on (Aikalaiskirja). Henkilötietoja nykypolven suomalaisista 1950'', p. 164. Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava, 1949. He was a member of the clergy (see:

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) as a representative of the university at the last two Diets of Finland. Heikel died in 1952 in

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* (1894) * (1902) * (1907) * (1913) * (1919) * (1920) * (1923) * ''J. L. Runeberg'' (1926) * * (1928, 1930) * (1929) * (1929) * (1930) * (1932) * (1934, 4th edition 2013, with

Anton Fridrichsen Anton Johnson Fridrichsen (4 January 1888 – 16 November 1953) was a Norwegian-born Swedish theologian. Biography He was born at Meråker Municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. He received his cand. theol. degree in 1911 and then stud ...

) * (1935) * ''/'' (1940) * (1945–1947)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Heikel, Ivar 1861 births 1952 deaths People from Nykarleby 20th-century Finnish scientists 20th-century philologists 19th-century philologists Rectors of the University of Helsinki Historians of antiquity 19th-century historians from the Russian Empire People from the Grand Duchy of Finland