Anders Spole

Anders Spole (13 June 1630 – 1 August 1699) was a Swedish mathematician and astronomer. He was born at a farm in , the son of blacksmith Per Andersson and his wife Gunilla Persdotter. At the age of twelve he started studying at Jönköpings skola and was sent to the University of Greifswald in 1652.

When he returned in 1667, he was named professor in mathematics at the newly founded Lund University; in 1672 he became the principal of that university. During this war he fought on the Swedish side, and he held ground at the fortress in Jönköping. He fought at the Battle of Landskrona in 1677.

Spole married Martha Lindelius, a distant relative of Carl von Linné, in 1669.