Ericus Johannis Schroderus (c. 1608 – 1639, ''Upsaliensis'') was a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

and

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

, living in

Uppsala Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Located north of the c ...

. He compiled the first dictionary which included Finnish as an entry language. ''Lexicon Latino-Sondicum'' (''"Latin-Scandinavian Dictionary"'') was published in 1637. Its other entries are in

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and

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. He was a brother of

Johan Skytte Johan Skytte (1577, in Nyköping – 15 March 1645, in Söderåkra, Sweden) was a Swedish statesman, and the founder of the ''Academia Gustaviana'' (today's University of Tartu in Estonia), in 1632. He was a son of the mayor of Nyköping, Beng ...

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Ericus Johannis Schroderus
in Libris, the catalog of the Swedish Royal Library {{DEFAULTSORT:Schroderus, Ericus 1608 births 1639 deaths Finnish lexicographers Swedish philologists