Biographies/Daniel Achrelius

Basic information

Occupation: Poet, professor of eloquence

Country: Finland

Main language(s): Latin

Basic Biography

Born: 1644 in Turku/Åbo

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Died: 23 April 1692 in Turku/Åbo

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Family

Father: Erik Achrelius (1604-1670), professor of medicine

Mother: Margareta Isaksdotter Rothovius (ca. 1613 - ca. 1694), daughter of Isaacus Rothovius (1572-1652)

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Education and Professional activity

School attendance:

Training:

University education:

• Turku/Åbo, Academy: immatruculated 1662, Magister 1672

Professional activity:

• 1673 Secretary of Turku/Åbo Academy and assistant teacher, 1679 professor of eloquence, rector 1687-1688

Writings

Publications:

• Contemplationum mundi libri tres, 1678-1682; Turku/Åbo 1682 (Google Books)
• Scientiarum magnes, 1690 (Google Books)
• Oratoria (1687)
• Epistolarum conscribendarum forma et ratio, 1689 (Google Books)
• Verborum Latini sermonis differentiae, in memoriale schediasma contractae, 1692
• in: Samlade vitterhetsarbeten af Svenska författare från Stjernhjelm till Dalin, ed. P. Hanselli, Uppsala 1873, 331-347 (Google Books)

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Sources

Online

• Wikidata: Q5541951
• Wikipedia (fi): Daniel Achrelius
• Wikipedia (sv): Daniel Achrelius

Main Sources

• Per Hanselli, ‘Förord’ [on Achrelius], in: Samlade vitterhetsarbeten af Svenska författare från Stjernhjelm till Dalin, ed. P. Hanselli, Uppsala 1873, 333-335 (Google Books)
• Ivar A. Heikel, Filologins studium vid Åbo Universitet (Helsingfors 1894), 73-83 (Google Books)
• Arvid Hultin, 'Daniel Achrelius. En finsk vitterlekare i slutet af 17:de seklet’, in: Förhandlingar och uppsatser 9 (Skrifter utgifna af Svenska Literatursällskapet in Finland 30), Helsingfors 1895, 257-309 (Google Books)
• Jorma Vallinkoski, Turun akatemian väitöskirjat 1642-1828: Die Dissertationen der alten Universität Turki, vol. 1, Helsinki 1962-1966, 1-11 (online, free)
• Maja Kallinen, ‘Naturens hemliga krafter. Daniel Achrelius’ ‹Contemplationes Mundi›, in: Historisk tidskrift för Finland 76 (1991), 317–346 (online)

Other

• Raija Sarasti-Wilenius: “Noster eloquendi artifex”. Daniel Achrelius’ Latin Speeches and Rhetorical Theory in Seventeenth-Century Finland (Ph.D. thesis), Helsinki 2000