Lars Anton Anjou

Lars Anton Anjou
Bishop of Visby
Church	Church of Sweden
Appointed	1859
In office	1859-1884
Predecessor	Carl Hallström
Successor	Knut Henning Gezelius von Schéele
Orders
Consecration	25 March 1859 by Henrik Reuterdahl
Personal details
Born	(1803-11-18)18 November 1803 Frösthult, Sweden
Died	13 December 1884(1884-12-13) (aged 81) Visby, Sweden
Buried	Östra kyrkogården, Visby
Nationality	Swede
Parents	Anton Anjou Johanna Elisabeth Sepelius

Lars Anton Anjou (18 November 1803 – 13 December 1884) was a Swedish bishop, church historian and politician.

Biography

Anjou studied at

. He resigned as minister of education and ecclesiastical affairs on 29 January 1859.

Anjou was bishop of the Diocese of Visby^[1] from 1859 until his death. He was a member of the state assembly between the years 1859 and 1866.

Anjou, together with Henrik Reuterdahl, is considered to be the founder of church historiography in Sweden, primarily because of his long and influential account of the history of the Swedish Reformation. Among his works are Svenska kyrkoreformationens historia 1-3 (1850-51) and Svenska kyrkans historia ifrån Uppsala möte år 1593 till slutet af sjuttonde århundradet (1866).

He became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1855 and an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities the same year.^[2] The following year he became an honorary member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala. From 1853 he was a bearer of the Order of the Polar Star and in 1864 he was commander with the Grand Cross.

Lars Anton Anjou was the son of pastor Anton Anjou and Johanna Elisabeth Sepelius. The Anjou family is of Walloon origin, and came to Sweden in 1633. The name is today unknown in Wallonia, and probably the family took it only after arriving in Sweden; as far as is known, it has no connection to the French county of Anjou. Anjou is buried in the Östra kyrkogården in Visby.^[3]

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