Erik Benzelius
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Erik Benzelius may refer to:
- Erik Benzelius the ElderErik Benzelius the ElderErik Benzelius was a Swedish theologian and Archbishop of Uppsala.Benzelius was born at the Bentseby farm in the parish of Luleå in northern Sweden, son of the farmer and lay assessor Henrik Jakobsson...
(1632–1709), bishop of Strängnäs, later archbishop of Uppsala - Erik Benzelius the YoungerErik Benzelius the youngerErik Benzelius the younger was a priest, theologian, librarian, and Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden, 1742–1743. He was a highly learned man and one of Sweden's important Enlightenment figures....
(1675–1743), bishop of Gothenburg, later of Linköping, finally appointed archbishop of Uppsala