SUOMALAINEN, JAAKKO

SUOMALAINEN, JAAKKO (JACOBUS PETRI FENNO) (c. 1540–1588, Turku), influential in early Finnish Lutheranism. He studied at Wittenberg and Rostock universities and served as headmaster of the Turku Cathedral School. At the command of King Johan III, Suomalainen was granted a leave of absence from his position from 1578 to 1583 to translate some essential Latin, German, and Swedish books into Finnish. These included, besides a prayer book and catechism, the first Finnish hymnal (1583) and...