Nicolaus Olai Bothniensis (born about 1550 in

Piteå Piteå () is a locality and the seat of Piteå Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden. Piteå is Sweden's 58th largest city, with a population of 23,326. Geography Piteå is located at the mouth of the Pite River ( sv, Piteälven), at th ...

, died 18 May 1600) was

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in the Church of Sweden 1599–1600. He was appointed in place of Abraham Angermannus who had been put in prison, but before getting inducted he died of a sickness, about 50 years old. In his younger days he had been a student at the University of RostockSe
entry of Nicolaus Olai
in Rostock Matrikelportal and had made extensive travels through Europe. Like Angermannus, Bothniensis had for a while been imprisoned because of his resistance to King

John III of Sweden John III ( sv , Johan III, fi, Juhana III; 20 December 1537 – 17 November 1592) was King of Sweden from 1569 until his death. He was the son of King Gustav I of Sweden and his second wife Margaret Leijonhufvud. He was also, quite autonomous ...

's non- Lutheran

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, but he had been finally released in the fall of 1592 after a total time of 1,5 years. He became dean in Uppsala and the first professor of theology at the university there in 1593. Bothiensis was described as a fine man of high moral standards.

References

Svenskt Biografiskt Handlexikon (1906), article Bothniensis
In Swedish * ''

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'', 2n ed., vol 19 (1913)
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(in Swedish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bothniensis, Nicolaus Olai 1550 births 1600 deaths People from Piteå Lutheran archbishops of Uppsala 16th-century Swedish people 17th-century Swedish people

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