Erik Gabrielsson Emporagrius

[1] On his return to Sweden in 1637, he was appointed professor of physics at Uppsala, but after a few years he exchanged this position for a chair in the faculty of theology.

[1] The previous Bishop of Strängnäs, Johannes Matthiae Gothus, had based on some of his publications been accused of attacking the symbolic books and suspected of wishing to bring about a union of the Lutheran and Reformed Churches.

Several writings of his are extant, among them Admonitio consolat ad obeundam pio et constanti animo mortem (1629), Methodus Theologiæ (1647), Likpredikningar (Sermons for the Dead, 1653–60), Oratio pro reddita Pace (1664) and Catechesens enfaldige förklarning (Simple Explanation of the Catechism, 1669).

[1] In the last, in his explanation of the Tenth Commandment he commented that a wife should be considered the finest item in a man's possessions or moveable property, which so annoyed Dowager Queen Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp that she obtained a ban on the work.

He was married first to Sara Eriksdotter Simtelia, secondly in 1648 to Elisabeth Olivecrantz, daughter of Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Archbishop of Uppsala, and for the third time to Anna Depchen.