Mennander, Carl Fredrik

Mennander, Carl Fredrik a learned Swedish prelate, was born July 19,1712, at Stockholm. After having been bishop of Abo, in Finland, he was called to teach physics at the University of Upsala. Towards the close of his life he was made archbishop of that city. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences at Upsala, in which city he died,. May 22, 1786. He wrote De Usu Logices in historia (Abo, 1748):-De Ophiolatria Gentilium (ibid. 1752, 4to):-De Synodis Aboensibus (ibid. 1773, 4to); and many papers on archaeology inserted in the collection of the society of Upsala.