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    Johannes Schefferus (February 2, 1621 – March 26, 1679) was one of the most important Swedish humanists of his time. He was also known as Angelus and...
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  • province Lapponia (book), a 1673 ethnographic account of the region by Johannes Schefferus Lapponia (train), a Finnish express passenger train "Lapponia" (song)...
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    Lapponia is a book written by Johannes Schefferus (1621 - 1679) in Latin covering a very comprehensive history of Northern Scandinavia topology, environment...
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    background for the research that lead to Johannes Schefferus' book Lapponia, published in Latin in 1673. For Schefferus, a number of "priests' correspondences"...
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    descriptio septentrionalium terrarum (1539), while Swedish humanist Johannes Schefferus (1621–1679) identified it with Lappland. Bjarmians cannot be connected...
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    long been a matter of debate. In his book, Lapponia, from 1673, Johannes Schefferus devoted a chapter to the lineage of the Sámi. He opened by arguing...
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    published on its own, his Voyage de Laponie, largely inspired by Johannes Schefferus, describes the way of life of the Sami of Lapland; it was not published...
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    Other illustrious scholars who came to visit were Claude Saumaise, Johannes Schefferus, Olaus Rudbeck, Johann Heinrich Boeckler, Gabriel Naudé, Christian...
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    than from this period. Lapponia (1673), written by the rhetorician Johannes Schefferus, is the oldest source of detailed information on Sámi culture. It...
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    Pierre-Louis Roederer Richard Rohmer (Alsatian extraction) Maurice de Saxe Johannes Schefferus Victor Schœlcher Robert Schuman Paul Schutzenberger Jean-Jacques...
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    assertion has later been challenged by subsequent scholars, including Johannes Schefferus and Johann Georg Schelhorn. Wikimedia Commons has media related to...
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    several from the University of Strasbourg, notably, the philologist Johannes Schefferus (professor Skytteanus), whose little library and museum building...
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    of the historical province of Ostrobothnia. In the 17th century, Johannes Schefferus assumed the etymology of the term "Lapland" to be related to the...
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  • politician, 2nd Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 1679 – Johannes Schefferus, Swedish historian and author (b. 1621) 1697 – Godfrey McCulloch...
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    Marschalck, German-born landowner, Chancellor of Norway (b. 1618) Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621) March 27 – Abraham Mignon, Dutch...
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  • 1613 – Noël Chabanel, French missionary and saint (d. 1649) 1621 – Johannes Schefferus, Swedish author and hymn-writer (d. 1679) 1650 – Pope Benedict XIII...
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  • illustrating the text with wood-cuts. Later editions were printed by Johannes Schefferus (Amsterdam, 1679), Franciscus Oudendorp (Leiden, 1720) and Otto Jahn...
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    was popularized and became the standard terminology by the work of Johannes Schefferus, Acta Lapponica (1673). The Sámi are often known in other languages...
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  • for over 100 years, few written examples of Kemi Sámi survive. Johannes Schefferus's Lapponia from 1673 contains two yoik poems by the Kemi Sámi Olof...
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    30 – George II Rákóczi, Hungarian nobleman (d. 1660) February 2 – Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (d. 1679) February 4 – Frederick, Burgrave...
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    addition to his ecclesiastical work, Sirma served as a source for Johannes Schefferus when the latter wrote his book Lapponia (1673). Among Sirmas many...
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  • Journey through part of the Low Countries, Germany, Italy, and France Johannes Schefferus – Lapponia Shugi Washo Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet – Observations...
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  • Sweden. Its existence was first documented by Johannes Bureus in 1594, and in 1666, Johannes Schefferus commented on the stone as one of many runestones...
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    other, similar "clergy correspondences", it served as a source for Johannes Schefferus and his book Lapponia in 1673. His treatise contained a drawing of...
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  • Litteratursällskapet, 1853, p. 206 (in Swedish) Scheffer, cited in Castrén, p. 50. Johannes Schefferus, Lappland, tr. Henrik Sundin, ed. John Granlund, Bengt Löw, and John...
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    30 – George II Rákóczi, Hungarian nobleman (d. 1660) February 2 – Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (d. 1679) February 4 – Frederick, Burgrave...
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    earliest mention in writing of what could be sáhkku was made by Johannes Schefferus in his book Lapponia (1673), where he states that the Sámi use dice...
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    included Georg Stiernhielm, Johan Axehiälm, Olaus Verelius, Johannes Loccenius, Johannes Schefferus and Magnus Celsius. To the tasks of the college was to...
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  • (Pehr) [sv] after his parents died. Scheffer was the grandson of scholar Johannes Schefferus and cousin of Counts Carl Fredrik and Ulrik Scheffer [sv]. Scheffer...
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  • Marschalck, German-born landowner, Chancellor of Norway (b. 1618) Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621) March 27 – Abraham Mignon, Dutch...
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