Biographies/Daniel Achrelius
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Daniel Achrelius
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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
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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
Network
Writings
https://www.doria.fi/discover?query=achrelius
Publications:
- Contemplationum mundi libri tres, Turku/Åbo 1682 (Google Books) (online, free)
- Oratoria, Turku/Åbo 1687 (online, free)
- Epistolarum conscribendarum forma et ratio, 1689 (Google Books)
- Laus manus, Turku/Åbo 1690
- Scientiarum magnes, 1690 (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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Online
- Wikidata: Q5541951
- Wikipedia (fi): Daniel Achrelius
- Wikipedia (sv): Daniel Achrelius
Dictionaries
- https://books.google.de/books?id=7DBsdwm_I90C&pg=PA9
- https://books.google.de/books?id=kZk7AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA9
- https://books.google.de/books?id=9FVVAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA9
- G. Castrén, in: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, v. 1, Stockholm 1918, 40-42 (archive.org)
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)
- Tomas Mansikka, Paracelsianism in Finland, in: Western Esotericism in Scandinavia, ed. Henrik Bogdan and Olav Hammer, Leiden 2016, 410-416 (DOI: 10.1163/9789004325968_052) (, free)
- Susanna Åkerman, Paracelsianism in Sweden, in: Western Esotericism in Scandinavia, ed. Henrik Bogdan and Olav Hammer, Leiden 2016, 425–430 (DOI: 10.1163/9789004325968_054)
- Maija Kallinen, Daniel Achreliuksen teos Contemplationes mundi libri tres – sen lähdepohja ja tulkintaa, in: Minerva, Oulun yliopiston historian laitoksen julkaisuja, No. 2/1991, Uleåborg 1991, 3-140, esp. 18–20
- Maija Kallinen, Change and Stability: Natural Philosophy at the Academy of Turku (1640-1713), Helsinki 1995 (online, free) (online, free)
Pre-1800
Other
- Raija Sarasti-Wilenius: “Noster eloquendi artifex”. Daniel Achrelius’ Latin Speeches and Rhetorical Theory in Seventeenth-Century Finland (Ph.D. thesis), Helsinki 2000
