Bible Encyclopedias

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Lenaus, Johann Canutus

a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born in 1573, at Lenna, near Upsala. He studied at Wittenberg, Helmstadt, and Rostock, was professor of Greek and Hebrew at Upsala, and died April 25, 1669, doctor of theology, archbishop of Sweden, and pro-chancellor of the Upsala Academy. He wrote, Conmm. in Evangelium Johannis: — Comm. in Lucae Acta Apostolorum: — Comm. in Canonicas. Epistolas Jacobi, Petri, Johannis et Judae: — Brevis Informatio de Veritate et Excellentia Christiana Religionis: — Judicium de Unione a Calvinianis Petita. See Witte, Diarium Biographicum; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:185. (B.P.)