, son of Eric Basngius, a divine, was born at Helsingborg in Sweden,
, son of Eric Basngius, a divine,
was born at Helsingborg in Sweden, in 1633, and studied
first at Stregne,s in Sudermania, and afterwards at UpsaL
Colonel Sylver Sparre, hearing of his good character and
abilities, appointed him tutor to his son, with whom Bsengius travelled into Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands, and visited eleven universities. On his return to
his own country, he was called to the theological chair of
Abo in Finland, when only in his thirty-second year. In
1682, Charles IX. king of Sweden, appointed him to the
bishopric of Wyburgh in Carelia. Baengius introduced
many useful regulations in his diocese, particularly with
respect to schools, and established a printing-office. He
died in 1696. He wrote a commentary, in Latin, on the
epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews, which was printed at
Abo in 1671, 4to the “.Life of St. Anscharius
” a work
on the ecclesiastical history of Sweden a treatise on the
sacraments a Lutheran catechism several disputations,
and funeral orations, and a sacred chronology.