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Lars Levi Laestadius was a Swedish Sami pastor, ecologist, and founder of the Laestadian revival movement in Lapland. He was also a botanist, writer, and chronicler of Sami mythology and culture.
Lars Levi Læstadius var en svensk präst och väckelseledare som grundade læstadianismen. Han var också botaniker, författare och helnykterist, och hade en komplicerad familjeförhållande med flera bröder och kusiner som också blev präster.
Laestadius thus played a major role in establishing a written standard in Lule Sami. Another significant aspect is that, unlike many other early texts written in Sami, Laestadius’s use of the Sami language is considered to be highly idiomatic.
Some useful resources on Laestadius: The Laestadian Archives in Pajala, Sweden, gives access to many important Laestadian texts and other relevant material in Swedish, Finnish and English on Læstadius’ life and work (biography, botany, ecclesial, philosophical, political, theological, etc.).
Laestadius started the movement when working as a pastor for the Church of Sweden in northern Sweden in the 1840s. Laestadius met a Sami woman named Milla Clementsdotter from Föllinge in the municipality of Krokom in Jämtland during an 1844 inspection tour of Åsele.
LAESTADIUS, LARS LEVI (1800 – 1861), Sami minister, writer, ecologist, mythologist, and ethnographer who became the founder of Laestadian Lutheran revivalist movement. Laestadius was born January 10, 1800, in the Swedish Lappland village town of J ä kkvik to a Sami mother and a Swedish father.
Lars Levi Laestadius was born in 1800 in the municipality of Jäkkvik in Swedish Lapland and died in 1861 in Pajala on the Swedish side of the border with Finland, which was a Russian Grand Duchy during the nineteenth century. Laestadius was educated as a theologian and worked as a vicar in different municipalities in Swedish Lapland.
