Henrik Heikel

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Henrik Heikel
Portrait of Henrik Heikel, before 1868
Henrik Heikel, before 1868
Born(1808-01-14)January 14, 1808
Oulu, Finland
DiedMarch 14, 1867(1867-03-14) (aged 59)
Helsinki, Finland
OccupationLutheran priest, educator
Notable work
Lärobok i geometrien
Spouse(s)Wilhelmina Johanna Schauman
Children11, including
  • Viktor Heikel, gymnastics teacher and educator
  • , member of Parliament
  • Anna Heikel, educator and head of school for the deaf

Henrik Heikel (14 January 1808 – 14 March 1867) was a Finland-Swedish educator and priest.

Heikel was born in Oulu, Finland in 1808. He began his studies in 1823, receiving his master of philosophy degree in 1832.[1] Heikel became a lecturer in philosophy and natural history at Åbo Gymnasium, now Åbo Academy, in Turku (Swedish: Åbo) in 1835 and vicar of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland in Pedersöre in 1861.[2] Heikel took a great interest in many public affairs and held a position in the Diet of Finland in 1863–64 and 1867.[3] He donated funds for the establishment of a children's school in Turku. At his own expense he set up a home for the deaf in Pedersöre, which was later taken over by the state.[4][5] During the last famine in Finland he lent 30,000 marks to peasants. As an educator he published Lärobok i geometrien ('Textbook in Geometry'), containing six books of Euclid's Elements and practical applications (3rd edition 1871).[6]

Heikel married Wilhelmina Johanna Schauman and had eleven children.[7] His children included Viktor Heikel, a gymnastics teacher and educator;[7]  [sv], a bank manager and member of Parliament;[8] and Anna Heikel, an educator and head of the school for the deaf founded along with her father.[7]

Relationship with the Baptists[]

Heikel and his family also have a place in the history of the Baptists in Finland. In 1859, a number of members of the growing Baptist movement faced hearings in front of the Bishop's Chapter at the Turku Cathedral.[9][10] Among the Lutheran clergy present was Heikel, who took an interest in the Baptists' beliefs and spoke to them to learn more, although he did not convert. After moving to Pedersöre in 1860, he and his family maintained a connection with the Baptists in Åland. After Heikel's death in Helsinki in 1867, both his son Viktor (co-founder of the Nya svenska samskolan) and daughter Anna were baptized in Stockholm by the Baptists. After Anna's return, she began to hold meetings and share material on Baptist teachings. The family received a visit from a Baptist pastor who had been at the hearing with Heikel ten years earlier; they held meetings and his preaching led to more conversions to the movement.[11][9]

Heikel's daughter Anna was also director and teacher of the Home for the Deaf, which operated until 1932.[4][12]

Sources[]

Logo för Nordisk familjeboks uggleupplaga.png This article contains content from the Owl Edition of Nordisk familjebok, a Swedish encyclopedia published between 1904 and 1926, now in the public domain.

References[]

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  2. ^ "Banbryterskor". Balder: Opartisk nykterhetstidning för alla (in Swedish). Finlands svenska nykterhetsförbund. 6 (11). 1906-03-15. Archived from the original on 2021-06-28.
  3. ^ Pekonen, Onni (2014). Debating "the ABCs of parliamentary life" : the learning of parliamentary rules and practices in the late nineteenth-century Finnish Diet and the early Eduskunta. Jyväskylä. ISBN 978-951-39-5842-8. OCLC 954246523.
  4. ^ a b "Till minne av Dövstumskolan i Pedersöre-Jakobstad". svenska.yle.fi (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2021-06-28. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  5. ^ Jossfolk, Karl-Gustav (2001). Bildning för alla : en pedagogikhistorisk studie kring abnormskolornas tillkomst i Finland och deras pionjärer som medaktörer i bildningsprocessen 1846-1892 (in Swedish). Svenska skolhistoriska föreningen i Finland, (Nord Print). Helsingfors: Svenska skolhistoriska föreningen i Finland. ISBN 952-91-3442-8. OCLC 58384770.
  6. ^ Linnström, Hjalmar. "328 (Svenskt boklexikon. Åren 1830-1865 / Förra delen. A - L)". runeberg.org (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2021-06-26. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  7. ^ a b c "HEIKEL, Viktor". Biografiskt lexikon för Finland (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2021-07-11. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  8. ^ "255-256 (Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 11. Harrisburg - Hypereides)". runeberg.org (in Swedish). 1909. Archived from the original on 2021-07-12. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  9. ^ a b Sundqvist, Alfons (January 1954). "Glimpses of the Baptist Work in Finland" (PDF). . 91. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-04.
  10. ^ "Baptisti.fi | Historiaa". Suomen Baptistikirkko verkossa (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 2021-06-28. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
  11. ^ "De första baptisterna i Finland" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2016-03-07.
  12. ^ "Heikel, Henrik (1808 - 1867)". Kansallisbiografia (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 2021-06-28. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
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