Johannes Canuti Lenaeus (29 November 1573 – 23 April 1669) was a professor at

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and Archbishop of Uppsala in the

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Biography

Lenaeus was born at Länna parish in

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, Sweden where his father was parish priest. After several years of studies, mainly in Germany at universities in

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and

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, he was appointed professor of

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in 1604. After being ordained priest, he was in 1613 also appointed deputy vice-rector and professor of

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. After more studies in Germany, he was also appointed professor in

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and

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. In 1638, he was named the first theology professor and clergyman at Uppsala. Lenaeus was appointed Archbishop in 1647. He text he wrote, ''Logica peripatetica'' (1633), gave a revival to the philosophy of peripatetics (Aristotelian philosophy). Lenaeus was married in 1612 with Catharina Kenicia, daughter of

Petrus Kenicius Petrus Kenicius (1555 – 3 February 1636) was Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden from 1609 to his death. He got his education from the Universities of Wittenberg and Rostock. In 1589 he was put in prison by King John III of Swe ...

who was Archbishop of Uppsala from 1609 to his death in 1636.

References

Other sources

Nordisk Familjebok (1912), article Lenaeus
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