Everything about Johannes Schefferus totally explained
Johannes Schefferus (
February 2,
1621 -
March 26,
1679) was one of the most important
Swedish humanists of his time.
Schefferus was born in
Strasbourg, then part of the
Holy Roman Empire. He came from the
patrician family (
Scheffer), studied at university there and briefly in
Leiden, and was in
1648 made
professor Skytteanus of eloquence and government at
Uppsala University, a chair he held until his death in
1679.
Schefferus also spent time on philological and archaeological studies. His
De orbibus tribus aureis became the first publication on Swedish archaeology. The story of the
Sami people,
Lapponia (1673) became popular around Europe but wasn't translated into Swedish (as
Lappland) until 1956. His posthumous publication,
Suecia literata ("The Learned Sweden") (1680) is a Swedish
history of science bibliography.
Schefferus was later in life involved in an intellectual dispute, particularly with
Olof Verelius (1618-1682) over the location of the
Temple at Uppsala. He argued that the temple should be found near the current location of
Helga Trefaldighets kyrka (Church of the Holy Trinity) in Uppsala. It is today known that his opponents usually used forgery to meet his argumentation. This was presumably the reason that parts of the largest surviving Gothic text,
Codex Argenteus, were retouched.
In 1648, Schefferus married
Regina Loccenia, the daughter of a previous (1628-1642) professor skytteanus,
Johannes Loccenius, and had two sons (see
Scheffer).
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