Lars Anton Anjou

Lars Anton Anjou

Lars Anton Anjou (born November 18, 1803 in Frösthult , Uppland , † December 13, 1884 in Visby ) was a Swedish Lutheran church historian, politician and clergyman (most recently Bishop of Visby).

Life

Anjou, son of pastor Anton Anjou (from Walloon family) and his wife Johanna Elisabeth Sepelius, studied Protestant theology at Uppsala University from 1819 and was ordained in 1827 . However, he continued to study and passed his theological master's examination in 1830 and his theological licentiate examination in 1838 . He then worked in various pastoral positions until in 1845 he received a professorship in Uppsala, connected with the pastoral office of the Trinity Church ( Helga Trefaldighets kyrka ). In the same year he was promoted to Dr. theol. PhD. In 1851/52 he was the rector of the university. In 1855 he was appointed Minister for Spiritual and Educational Affairs by the King as the successor to Henrik Reuterdahl, who had been appointed bishop . One of his most important projects was the reform of high school education, in which he enforced a strengthening of the classical languages. From 1859 until his death, Anjou was bishop of the Visby diocese . He was a member of the last state assembly from 1859 to 1866.

Anjou (together with Henrik Reuterdahl) is considered to be the founder of academic church historiography in Sweden, primarily because of his long-time influential account of the history of the Swedish Reformation . In 1855 he was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and accepted as an honorary member of the Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies .

Fonts (selection)

• Lärobok i kyrkohistorien för scholor och gymnasier. Uppsala 1842 (7th edition 1867)
• Svenska kyrkoreformationens historia 1–3. 1850–1851 (English: The history of the reformation in Sweden. Pudney & Russell, New York 1859, archive.org )
• Baptisms in förhållande till den heliga script och kristna kyrkans historia. Uppsala 1854.
• Svenska kyrkans historia ifrån Uppsala should år 1593 till slutet af sjuttonde århundradet. Uppsala 1866.
• Försök till förklaring öfver dr M. Luther's lilla katekes. Stockholm 1875.

literature

• Lars Anton A [njou] . In: Bernhard Meijer (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-Armati . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1904, Sp. 1044-1045 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

• Herman Lundström : Anjou, Lars Anton. In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon 1, 1918, pp. 795 ff. ( Nad.riksarkivet.se ).