Ivar August Heikel (16 January 1861 – 8 October 1952) was a Finnish

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and

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. He was the nephew of priest and educator

Henrik Heikel Henrik Heikel (14 January 1808 – 14 March 1867) was a Finland-Swedish educator and priest. Life Heikel was born in Oulu, Finland in 1808. He began his studies in 1823, receiving his master of philosophy degree in 1832. Heikel became a lect ...

. He was also the cousin of gymnastics teacher

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, educator

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, banker and politician

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, and ethnographer Axel Heikel as well as maternal grandfather to sociologist

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. Heikel was born in 1861 in Nykarleby, Finland to pastor August Heikel and Aurora Emilia née von Knorring and had seven siblings. Heikel became associate professor (

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) of

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at the

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in 1885 and was professor of Greek Literature between 1888 and 1926. He was rector of the university from 1907–1911 and 1920–1922. In his extensive writings he dealt mainly with ancient subjects. He developed a particular interest in early Christian scholar

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. As emeritus, he devoted himself to translation work as well as translating Eusebius' ''Church History'' into Swedish and Finnish.L. Arvi P. Poijärvi, Ilmari Havu, Mauno Jääskeläinen (eds.): ''Kuka kukin on (Aikalaiskirja). Henkilötietoja nykypolven suomalaisista 1950'', p. 164. Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava, 1949. He was a member of the clergy (see:

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) as a representative of the university at the last two Diets of Finland. Heikel died in 1952 in

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* (1894) * (1902) * (1907) * (1913) * (1919) * (1920) * (1923) * ''J. L. Runeberg'' (1926) * (1927) * (1928, 1930) * (1929) * (1929) * (1930) * (1932) * (1934, 4th edition 2013, with Anton Fridrichsen) * (1935) * ''/'' (1940) * (1945–1947)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Heikel, Ivar 1861 births 1952 deaths People from Nykarleby 20th-century Finnish scientists 20th-century philologists 19th-century philologists Rectors of the University of Helsinki Historians of antiquity Historians from the Russian Empire People from the Grand Duchy of Finland