Elof Holstenius (also spelled Elaus, Elavus, Olaus; 2 October 1677, in

Västerås Västerås () is a city in central Sweden on the shore of Mälaren, Lake Mälaren in the province of Västmanland, west of Stockholm. The city had a population of 127,799 at the end of 2019, out of the municipal total of 158,653, over 100,000 mo ...

– 18 July 1736, in Husby) was a Swedish professor of theoretical philosophy and later, from 1709 to 1710, the rector of the Academia Gustavo-Carolina in

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. He studied at

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. He would be the last rector of the Academia Gustavo-Carolina at large, with

Georg Friedrich Parrot Georg Friedrich Parrot (15 July 1767 – 8 July 1852) was a German scientist, the first Rector (academia), rector of the University of Tartu, Imperial University of Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia) in what was then the Governorate of Livonia of the ...

becoming the succeeding rector of the university, renamed the Kaiserliche Universität zu Dorpat, in 1802, nearly a century after the term of Holstenius.

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1677 births 1736 deaths People from Västerås Swedish scholars and academics Rectors of the University of Tartu Academic staff of the University of Tartu Uppsala University alumni {{Sweden-academic-bio-stub