Laurentius Petri Aboicus (1605–1671) was a Finnish

priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particu ...

and

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. He was born in

Turku Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...

and was vicar in Tammela from 1648. Laurentius Petri Aboicus, also called ''L.P. Tammelinus'', published an extraordinary

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titled ''Ajan tieto Suomenmaan menois ja uscost'' (1658). It was the first history book in Finnish.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aboicus, Laurentius Petri 1605 births Finnish historians 17th-century Finnish writers 17th-century historians 17th-century Finnish Lutheran clergy 1671 deaths Writers from Turku