Biographies/Daniel Achrelius

Daniel Achrelius

Professor of eloquence, poet

born 1644

died 23 April 1692 in Turku/Åbo

• Wikidata: Q5541951
• Theatrum Category: Daniel Achrelius

Education and Professional activity

University education

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

Professional activity

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

Writings

• https://www.doria.fi/discover?query=achrelius
• https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/resultList.jsf?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)

Manuscripts:

Letters:

Online Sources

Wikipedia

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

Dictionaries

• Biografiskt lexikon för Finland; https://www.blf.fi/artikel.php?id=2291; http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:sls-4483-1416928957089
• 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)

Printed Sources

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)

Other

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