Magnus, Olaus

Magnus, Olaus

▪ Swedish author
Swedish  Olaf Mansson  
born October 1490, Linköping, Swed.
died Aug. 1, 1557, Rome

      Swedish ecclesiastic and author of an influential history of Scandinavia.

      A Catholic priest, he went to Rome in 1523, during the Swedish Reformation, and thereafter lived in exile, first in Danzig and later in Italy, with his brother Archbishop Johannes Magnus, on whose death he was appointed Catholic archbishop of Sweden. After 1549 he was also director of St. Brigitta's, a religious house in Rome.

      Olaus Magnus' Carta marina (1539) was the first detailed map of Scandinavia with any pretensions to accuracy. His foremost work, however, is the Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (1555), a history of the northern peoples inspired by humanist historiography and imbued with patriotic warmth, which gives a picture of the countryside and people of Sweden on the threshold of a new era. It appeared in many editions and translations during the 17th century—the first English translation being the History of the Goths, Swedes and Vandals (1658)—and for long influenced the European idea of the Scandinavian people.

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Universalium. 2010.

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