Henrik Reuterdahl

Henrik Reuterdahl (11 September 1795 in Malmö – 28 June 1870 in Uppsala) was a Swedish Lutheran clergyman who served as the Church of Sweden archbishop of Uppsala from 1856 to his death.^[1]

The Most Reverend Henrik Reuterdahl
Archbishop of Uppsala Primate of Sweden
Church	Church of Sweden
Archdiocese	Uppsala
Appointed	1856
In office	1856–1870
Predecessor	Hans Olof Holmström
Successor	Anton Niklas Sundberg
Previous post(s)	Bishop of Lund (1855-1856)
Orders
Consecration	20 May 1855 by Hans Olof Holmström
Personal details
Born	(1795-09-11)11 September 1795 Malmö, Sweden
Died	28 June 1870(1870-06-28) (aged 74) Uppsala, Sweden
Buried	Uppsala gamla kyrkogård
Nationality	Swede
Parents	Bengt Fredrik Reuterdahl Anna Christina Askerlund

Biography

Born in Malmö, he was orphaned at an early age and had to rely on others for his education and support. Despite this he managed to get a higher education at the Lund University in theology, philology and Church history, influenced by local academic dignities such as Erik Gustaf Geijer as well as the works of the German Schleiermacher that had just become appreciated in Lund. He later published a thorough history of the Church in Sweden (4 volumes, 1838–1866).

Reuterdahl served as an associate professor at the theological seminary until 1826 and in 1844, he became a professor of dogma. Reuterdahl was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1848 and of the Swedish Academy from 1852.^[2]