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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General Info

Male

Birth Place

Sweden, Norrbotten County

Date of Death

February 21st, 1861

Died Aged

-108

Star Sign

Capricorn

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