Aeschillus Petraeus

The Right Reverend Aeschillus Petraeus
Bishop of Turku
Church	Church of Sweden
Diocese	Turku
Appointed	20 October 1652
In office	1652–1657
Predecessor	Isaacus Rothovius
Successor	Johannes Terserus
Orders
Consecration	24 October 1652
Personal details
Born	1593 Grums, Swedish Empire
Died	27 September 1657 Turku, Swedish Empire (Present-day Finland)
Nationality	Swedish
Denomination	Lutheran
Parents	Olavus Eskilli Petræus & Katarina
Spouse	N.N. Andersdotter Petraeus Anna Henriksdotter Kock
Children	5

Æschillus (Eskil) Petræus (born 1593 in Grums, Sweden; died 27 September 1657 in Turku, now in Finland) was Bishop of Turku in 1652–1657.

Biography

Petræus was lecturer and Dean of the grammar school in Turku. He was also the first professor of theology at Turku Academy and Rector of the University. Petræus was from the Swedish-speaking part of Sweden, but well versed in the Finnish language. He, among other things, led a Bible Translation Committee and published the first grammar of the Finnish language, Linguae Finnicae brevis institutio in 1649.^[1] On 20 October 1652 he was appointed Bishop of Turku and was consecrated on 24 October at the Storkyrkan in Stockholm.

References

^ Æschillus Petræus, Linguæ finnicæ brevis institutio, exhibens vocum flectiones per casus, gradus & tempora, nec non partium indeclinabilium significationem, dictionumq; constructionem & prosodiam. Ad usum accommodata (Åbo: Wald, 1649), http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fd2015-00009344.