Lars Levi Læstadius
Lars Levi Læstadius
Lars Levi Laestadius was a Swedish Sami pastor and administrator of the Swedish state Lutheran church in Lapland who founded the Laestadian pietist revival movement to help his largely Sami congregations, who were being ravaged by alcoholism. Laestadius was also a noted botanist and an author. Laestadius himself became a teetotaller in the 1840s, when he began successfully awakening his Sami parishioners to the misery and destruction alcohol was causing them.
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Male
Birth Place
Sweden, Norrbotten County
Date of Death
February 21st, 1861
Died Aged
-108
Star Sign
Capricorn
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