Editing Johannes Schefferus (section)

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[[File:SchefferusJohannes.jpg|thumb|Johannes Schefferus]]
[[File:Skytteanum.jpg|thumb|The Skytteanum at Uppsala University]]
'''Johannes Schefferus''' (February 2, 1621 – March 26, 1679) was one of the most important [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[humanism|humanists]] of his time. He was also known as Angelus and is remembered for writing hymns.<ref>See the link below "German Classics"</ref>

Schefferus was born in [[Strasbourg]], then part of the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. He came from the [[Patrician (post-Roman Europe)|patrician]] family ([[Scheffer]]), studied at university there and briefly in [[University of Leiden|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 (book)|Lapponia]]'' (1673) became popular around Europe but was not translated into Swedish (as ''Lappland'') until 1956. His posthumous publication, ''Suecia literata'' ("The Learned Sweden") (1680) is a Swedish [[History of science and technology|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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