Æschillus (Eskil) Petræus (born 1593 in
Grums
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,
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; died 27 September 1657 in
Turku
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, now in
Finland
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) was
Bishop of Turku
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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.
[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.] On 20 October 1652 he was appointed Bishop of Turku and was consecrated on 24 October at the
Storkyrkan
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in
Stockholm
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.
See also
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List of bishops of Turku
References
1593 births
1657 deaths
Finnish scholars
Finnish lexicographers
Lutheran archbishops and bishops of Turku
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