Julius Micrander

Julius Erici Micrander Uplandiensis (December 25, 1640 – 1702) was a Swedish professor, a rector of Uppsala University, member of the Swedish Parliament and the superintendent.

Micrander was born in the rectory of Bro in Upland, Sweden. His father was vicar Ericus Georgi Micranderan in Tierp parish and his mother was Benedicta Eriksdotter. By age 10, Micrander was a student at Uppsala University. At age 28, he was studying for a master's degree there under the direction of Samuel Skuncke with the De educatione liberorum.

In 1687, Micrander received his second professorship in theology. As a professor of theology, he became In 1676, Micrander was appointed as extraordinary professor of Greek, becoming a professor the next year. In 1685, university chancellor Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie appointed Micrander professor of theology. Micrander was ordained as a priest in the Church of Sweden and took care chair while he was vicar of Vaksala parish. involved in the Cartesian controversy at the university, and took the side of Henry Schütz. Micrander was influenced by the German theologian Johann Adam Osiander and published his strongly anti-Cartesian Collegium theologicum in præcipuas Controversies theo Logica habitum Olim in Sweden in 1690. Orthodox Aristotelian supporters, such as Micrander, believed that Rene Descartes' philosophy threatened the purity of the Christian faith.

Micrander was a member of parliament in 1689 (again in 1697). In 1694, he was appointed superintendent of the Diocese of Härnösand (which then also included the Diocese of Luleå), where he was deemed a controversial person because of his stance and conduct in the Cartesian conflict.

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