Julius Micrander

Who was Julius Micrander?

Julius Erici Micrander Uplandiensis was a Swedish professor, rector of Uppsala University, member of parliament and the superintendent.

Born in the rectory of Bro in Upland, Julius Micranders father was vicar Ericus Georgi Micranderan in Tierp parish and his mother Benedicta Eriksdotter. Julius Micrander had not reached the age of ten years old when he became a student at Uppsala University, where he at the age of 28 took a master's degree under the direction of Samuel Skuncke with the De educatione liberorum. In 1676 he was appointed as extraordinary professor of Greek, a service the following year became professor. In that capacity, he had attracted interest from the university chancellor Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie who in 1685 appointed him professor of theology. He was ordained a priest and took care chair while he was vicar of Vaksala parish.

In 1687 he received the second professorship in theology. As a professor of theology, he ended up in the storm of the Cartesian controversy which had broken out in the university, and took the side of Henry Schütz. Micrander was influenced by the German theologian Johann Adam Osiander and published his strongly anti-Cartesian Collegium theologicum in præcipuas Controversies theo Logica habitum Olim in Sweden in 1690th. The controversy was seen from the based on the orthodox Aristotelian supporters, such as theologians as Micrander who believed that Descartes' philosophy threatened the purity of the evangelical faith.