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Matthias Calonius
(January 7, 1738 ? September 13, 1817) was
Finland
's most renowned
jurist
.
Born in
Saarijarvi
as a pastor's son, he studied at
the Royal Academy of Turku
. He went on to become a lecturer and then (in 1773) full
professor
at the Faculty of Law there, despite being too poor and lacking in family connections to ever obtain an academic title. He was also a member of the
Supreme Court of Sweden
in
Stockholm
and, after the
Finnish War
and
Diet of Porvoo
,
procurator
(
chancellor of justice
) with the
Senate
of the
Grand Duchy of Finland
.
Calonius's influence is mainly due to his lectures on
civil law
, handed down among students in the 19th century and first published in 1908 as
Praelectiones in Jurisprudentiam Civilem
. Characteristically for his period, he was an advocate of
natural law
as a transportive justification of contemporary law.
He was a member of the
Aurora Society
, the
Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences
, the
Royal Patriotic Society
, and
Pro Fide et Christianismo
.
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Calonius died in Turku in 1817.
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- Letto-Vanamo, Pia (2001). "Matthias Calonius". In Michael Stolleis (ed.).
Juristen: ein biographisches Lexikon; von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert
(in German) (2nd ed.). Munchen: Beck. p. 116.
ISBN
3-406-45957-9
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