About Elof Holstenius
Lived 1677 – 1736 (aged 58–59). Elof Holstenius was a Swedish academic.
Elof Holstenius (also spelled Elaus, Elavus, Olaus; 2 October 1677 in Västerås – 18 July 1736 in Husby) was a Swedish professor of theoretical philosophy and later, from 1709 to 1710, the rector of the Academia Gustavo-Carolina in Pärnu. He studied at Uppsala University. He would be the last rector of the Academia Gustavo-Carolina at large, with Georg Friedrich Parrot becoming the succeeding rector of the university, renamed the Kaiserliche Universität zu Dorpat, in 1802, nearly a century after the term of Holstenius.
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Who was Elof Holstenius?
Swedish scholar, rector of Tartu University (1677-1736)
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Elof Holstenius was born in 1677 in Västerås.
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Elof Holstenius died in 1736 in Husby.
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Elof Holstenius was an academic.
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Elof Holstenius was Swedish.
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