16th-century Finnish clergyman and de facto founder of literary Finnish
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Mikael Agricola" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(November 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
The Right Reverend
Mikael Agricola
Bishop of Turku
Drawing of Mikael Agricola by Albert Edelfelt (1854–1900). No contemporary depictions of Agricola have survived.
Church
Church of Sweden
Diocese
Turku
In office
1554–1557
Predecessor
Martti Skytte
Successor
Petrus Follingius
Orders
Ordination
1531
Consecration
1554 by Botvid Sunesson
Personal details
Born
c. 1510
Torsby, Pernå, Uusimaa (Nyland), Kalmar Union (now Finland)
Died
9 April 1557(1557-04-09) (aged 46–47) Uusikirkko, Karelia, Sweden (now Russia)
Nationality
Finnish
Denomination
Lutheran
Part of a series on
Lutheranism
Background
Christianity
Start of the Reformation
Reformation
Protestantism
Doctrine and theology
Bible
Old Testament
New Testament
Creeds
Apostles' Creed
Nicene Creed
Athanasian Creed
Book of Concord
Augsburg Confession
Apology of the Augsburg Confession
Luther's Small / Large Catechism
Smalcald Articles
Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope
Formula of Concord
Distinctive theological concepts
Theology of Martin Luther
Justification
Law and Gospel
Sola gratia
Sola scriptura
Christology
Sanctification
Two kingdoms
catholicity
Two states of the Church
Priesthood of all believers
Divine Providence
Marian theology
Theology of the Cross
Sacramental Union
Other relevant topics
Homosexuality
Sacraments and worship
Baptism
Eucharist
Confession
Confirmation
Matrimony
Anointing of the Sick
Holy Orders
Divine Service
Matins
Vespers
Liturgical calendar
Calendar of saints
Lutheran hymn
Lutheran hymnwriters
Normative principle
Lutheran art
Organization
Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference
Global Confessional & Missional Lutheran Forum
International Lutheran Council
Lutheran World Federation
Denominations
Lutheranism by region
Movements
History of Lutheranism
Crypto-Lutherans
Gnesio-Lutherans
Lutheran orthodoxy
Pietists
Radical Pietism
Haugeans
Laestadians
Finnish Awakening
Old Lutherans
Neo-Lutherans
High church Lutherans
Confessional Lutheranism
Key figures
Missionaries
John Campanius
Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg
Hans Egede
Johann Heinrich Callenberg
Johann Phillip Fabricius
Paul Henkel
John Christian Frederick Heyer
Karl Graul
Martti Rautanen
Wilhelm Sihler
F. C. D. Wyneken
Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder
Lars Olsen Skrefsrud
Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen
Onesimos Nesib
Paul Olaf Bodding
Johann Flierl
Christian Keyser
Jens Christensen
Bible Translators
Martin Luther
Casiodoro de Reina
Kjell Magne Yri
Onesimos Nesib
Aster Ganno
Kristian Osvald Viderø
Jákup Dahl
Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg
Johann Phillip Fabricius
William Tyndale
John Rogers
George Constantine
Jozef Roháček
Johannes Avetaranian
Guðbrandur Þorláksson
Ludvig Olsen Fossum
Hans Egede / Paul Egede
Otto Fabricius
Nils Vibe Stockfleth
Olaus Petri / Laurentius Petri
Martti Rautanen
Primož Trubar
Jurij Dalmatin
Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen
Sebastian Krelj
Mikael Agricola
Norwegian Bible Society
Swedish Bible Society
Samuel Ludwik Zasadius
Stanislovas Rapolionis
Laurentius Andreae
Hans Tausen
Olaf M. Norlie
Jonas Bretkūnas
Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder
Antonio Brucioli
Mikołaj Jakubica
Matthias Bel
Johann Ernst Glück
William F. Beck
Theologians
Martin Luther / Katharina von Bora
Philip Melanchthon
Johannes Bugenhagen
Johannes Brenz
Justus Jonas
Hans Tausen
Laurentius Petri
Olaus Petri
Mikael Agricola
Matthias Flacius
Martin Chemnitz
Johann Gerhard
Abraham Calovius
Johannes Andreas Quenstedt
Johann Wilhelm Baier
Philipp Spener
David Hollaz
August Hermann Francke
Henry Muhlenberg
Lars Levi Laestadius
Charles Porterfield Krauth
C. F. W. Walther
Søren Kierkegaard
Albrecht Ritschl
Wilhelm Herrmann
F. W. Stellhorn
Rudolf Otto
Ernst Troeltsch
Rudolf Bultmann
Paul Tillich
Hermann Sasse
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Wolfhart Pannenberg
Robert Jenson
v
t
e
Mikael Agricola (Finnish:[ˈmikɑelˈɑɡrikolɑ]ⓘ; c. 1510 – 9 April 1557) 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 (then a part of the Church of Sweden) along Lutheran lines. He translated the New Testament into Finnish and also produced the prayer book and hymns used in Finland's new Lutheran Church. This work set the rules of orthography that are the basis of modern Finnish spelling. His thorough work is particularly remarkable in that he accomplished it in only three years.
He died of sudden illness while returning from a trip during which he assisted in negotiating the Treaty of Novgorod with the Tsardom of Moscovy.
MikaelAgricola (Finnish: [ˈmikɑel ˈɑɡrikolɑ] ; c. 1510 – 9 April 1557) was a Finnish Lutheran clergyman who became the de facto founder of literary Finnish...
MikaelAgricola Church (Finnish: Mikael Agricolan kirkko, Swedish: MikaelAgricola kyrka) is a Lutheran church located in the Punavuori district of Helsinki...
was created by MikaelAgricola, a Finnish bishop, in the 16th century. He based his writing system on the western dialects. Agricola's ultimate plan was...
was translated by MikaelAgricola, then rector of the Turku Cathedral School and later Bishop of Turku. Generally regarded as Agricola's most prominent work...
Agricola (1889–1955), German World War II general Martin Agricola (1486–1556), German composer and music theorist of the Renaissance MikaelAgricola (1510–1557)...
Finnish language. It was written by MikaelAgricola, a bishop and Lutheran Reformer, and was first published in 1543. Agricola wrote the book while working on...
Athanasian Creed, and the unaltered Augsburg Confession of 1530. MikaelAgricola's translation of the first Finnish New Testament was published in 1548...
Primož Trubar Jurij Dalmatin Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen Sebastian Krelj MikaelAgricola Norwegian Bible Society Swedish Bible Society Samuel Ludwik Zasadius...
wrath to Christians. Based on this sermon and others by Agricola, Luther suspected that Agricola was behind certain anonymous antinomian theses circulating...
to Lutheranism. In the 16th century, a bishop and Lutheran Reformer MikaelAgricola published the first written works in Finnish; and Finland's current...
Bugenhagen Andreas Karlstadt, later a Radical Reformer Hans Tausen MikaelAgricola Primož Trubar Jiří Třanovský Huldrych Zwingli Martin Bucer John Calvin...
bishop and Lutheran reformer MikaelAgricola (1510–1555) in the preface to his 1551 Finnish translation of the Psalms. Agricola supplied a list of purported...
Primož Trubar Jurij Dalmatin Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen Sebastian Krelj MikaelAgricola Norwegian Bible Society Swedish Bible Society Samuel Ludwik Zasadius...
Primož Trubar Jurij Dalmatin Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen Sebastian Krelj MikaelAgricola Norwegian Bible Society Swedish Bible Society Samuel Ludwik Zasadius...
ancient ethnic groups from which over time Finns evolved. In 1548, MikaelAgricola mentions in his New Testament that Finnish tribes are Finns, Tavastians...
Primož Trubar Jurij Dalmatin Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen Sebastian Krelj MikaelAgricola Norwegian Bible Society Swedish Bible Society Samuel Ludwik Zasadius...
Johannes Brenz Justus Jonas Argula von Grumbach Petrus Särkilahti MikaelAgricola Stephan Agricola Nicolaus von Amsdorf Laurentius Andreae Olaus Petri Laurentius...
Primož Trubar Jurij Dalmatin Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen Sebastian Krelj MikaelAgricola Norwegian Bible Society Swedish Bible Society Samuel Ludwik Zasadius...
accept some form of purgatory.[citation needed] Lutheran Reformer MikaelAgricola still believed in the basic beliefs of purgatory. Purgatory as such...
Johannes Brenz Justus Jonas Argula von Grumbach Petrus Särkilahti MikaelAgricola Stephan Agricola Nicolaus von Amsdorf Laurentius Andreae Olaus Petri Laurentius...
Primož Trubar Jurij Dalmatin Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen Sebastian Krelj MikaelAgricola Norwegian Bible Society Swedish Bible Society Samuel Ludwik Zasadius...
20th century. The festival is also mentioned by the Finnish reformer MikaelAgricola in his account of what from his point of view was Finnish idolatry...
Johannes Brenz Justus Jonas Argula von Grumbach Petrus Särkilahti MikaelAgricola Stephan Agricola Nicolaus von Amsdorf Laurentius Andreae Olaus Petri Laurentius...
Primož Trubar Jurij Dalmatin Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen Sebastian Krelj MikaelAgricola Norwegian Bible Society Swedish Bible Society Samuel Ludwik Zasadius...
Global Information
