Mikael Agricola
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title:
Mikael Agricola
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Mikael Agricola was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman who became the de facto founder of literary Finnish and a prominent proponent of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden, including Finland, which was a Swedish territory at the time. He is often called the "father of literary Finnish". Agricola was consecrated as the bishop of Turku (Åbo) in 1554, without papal approval. He continued the reform of the Finnish church along Lutheran lines. He translated the New Testament into Finnish and also produced
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16th-century Finnish clergyman and the official founder of literary Finnish
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikael_Agricola
date created:
2002-05-02T07:43:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T04:32:40Z
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