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Johannes Canuti Lenaeus (November 29, 1573 – April 23, 1669) was professor at Uppsala University and Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden from 1657 to his death. November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Events January - articles of Warsaw Confederation signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland. ...
April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ...
// Events Samuel Pepys stopped writing his diary. ...
Uppsala University (Swedish Uppsala universitet) is a public university in Uppsala, Sweden. ...
Uppsala Cathedral seen from the other side of the river. ...
The Church of Sweden, or Svenska kyrkan, is the national church of Sweden. ...
Events January 8 - Miles Sindercombe, would-be-assassin of Oliver Cromwell, and his group are captured in London February - Admiral Robert Blake defeats the Spanish West Indian Fleet in a battle over the seizure of Jamaica. ...
After severel years of studies, mainly in Germany at university in Rostock and Wittenberg, he was appointed professor of logic in Uppsala 1604. After some more studies in Germany, he was also appointed professor in Greek and Hebrew. Rostock (Slavic origin: roztoka, Polish: Roztoka) is a city in northern Germany. ...
Statue of Martin Luther in the main square Wittenberg, officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg, is a town in Germany, in the Bundesland Saxony-Anhalt, at 12° 59 E, 51° 51 N, on the Elbe river. ...
Logic (from Classical Greek λÏÎ³Î¿Ï (logos), originally meaning the word, or what is spoken, but coming to mean thought or reason) is most often said to be the study of arguments, although the exact definition of logic is a matter of controversy amongst philosophers (see below). ...
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by 6 million people mainly in Israel, parts of the Palestinian territories, the United States and by Jewish communities around the world. ...
After being ordained priest, he was in 1613 also appointed professor of theology. Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεοÏ, theos, God, + λογοÏ, logos, word or reason). It also refers to the study of other religious topics. ...
He text he wrote, Logica peripatetica (1633) gave a revival to the philosophy of peripatetics (Aristotelian philosophy) and was for a time used as a study book. Peripatetic (περιπατητικός) is the name given to followers of Aristotle, the Greek philosopher. ...
His father-in-law was former Archbishop Petrus Kenicius and Johannes was seen as a natural successor.
References
- Nordisk Familjebok (1912), article Lenaeus
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