{{Short description|Finnish philologist and historian (1861–1952)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Ivar August Heikel | image = Ivar-Heikel.jpg | caption = Ivar Heikel in the early 1890s. {{Credit|Daniel Nyblin}}. | birth_date = {{Birth date|1861|01|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Nykarleby, Finland | death_date = {{Death date and age|1952|10|08|1861|01|16|df=y}} | death_place = Helsinki, Finland | occupation = Philologist, intellectual historian }}
'''Ivar August Heikel''' (16 January 1861 – 8 October 1952) was a Finnish philologist and intellectual historian. He was the nephew of priest and educator Henrik Heikel.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ivar Heikel 1861-1952 i Uppslagsverket Finland|url=http://www.nykarlebyvyer.nu/sidor/texter/pers/heikeliu.htm|access-date=2022-02-02|website=www.nykarlebyvyer.nu|language=sv|archive-date=2021-08-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815091629/http://www.nykarlebyvyer.nu/sidor/texter/pers/heikeliu.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> He was also the cousin of gymnastics teacher Viktor, educator Anna, banker and politician Felix, and ethnographer Axel Heikel<ref>{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://runeberg.org/nfbk/0144.html|title=Nordisk familjebok; konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi, innehållande upplysningar och förklaringar om märkvärdiga namn, föremål och begrepp.|date=|publisher=Expeditionen af Nordisk familjebok|editor-last=Linder|editor-first=Nils|pages=255–256|language=sv|oclc=3577084|editor-last2=Rosén|editor-first2=John|editor-last3=Westrin|editor-first3=Theodor|editor-last4=Olsson|editor-first4=Bror Ferdinand|editor-last5=Meijer|editor-first5=Bernhard|access-date=2022-02-02|archive-date=2021-07-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712040854/http://runeberg.org/nfbk/0144.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://runeberg.org/nfbk/0145.html|title=Nordisk familjebok: konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi, innehållande upplysningar och förklaringar om märkvärdiga namn, föremål och begrepp.|date=|publisher=Expeditionen af Nordisk familjebok|editor-last=Linder|editor-first=Nils|pages=257|language=sv|oclc=3577084|editor-last2=Rosén|editor-first2=John|editor-last3=Westrin|editor-first3=Theodor|editor-last4=Olsson|editor-first4=Bror Ferdinand|editor-last5=Meijer|editor-first5=Bernhard|access-date=2022-02-02|archive-date=2021-10-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020073021/http://runeberg.org/nfbk/0145.html|url-status=live}}</ref> as well as maternal grandfather to sociologist Erik Allardt.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Väisänen|first=Maija|date=2014|title=HEIKEL, Ivar August|url=https://www.blf.fi/artikel.php?id=6046|access-date=2022-02-02|website=Biografiskt lexikon för Finland|publisher=Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland|language=sv|archive-date=2021-11-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103010412/https://www.blf.fi/artikel.php?id=6046|url-status=live}}</ref>
Heikel was born in 1861 in Nykarleby, Finland to pastor August Heikel and Aurora Emilia née von Knorring and had seven siblings. Heikel became associate professor (docent) of Classical Philology at the University of Helsinki in 1885 and was professor of Greek Literature between 1888 and 1926. He was rector of the university from 1907–1911 and 1920–1922.<ref name=":1" />
In his extensive writings he dealt mainly with ancient subjects. He developed a particular interest in early Christian scholar Eusebius of Caesarea.<ref name=":1" /> As emeritus, he devoted himself to translation work as well as translating Eusebius' ''Church History'' into Swedish and Finnish.<ref>L. Arvi P. Poijärvi, Ilmari Havu, Mauno Jääskeläinen (eds.): ''Kuka kukin on (Aikalaiskirja). Henkilötietoja nykypolven suomalaisista 1950'', p. 164. Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava, 1949. {{inlang|fi}}</ref>
He was a member of the clergy (see: Estates of the Realm) as a representative of the university at the last two Diets of Finland.<ref name=":0" />
Heikel died in 1952 in Helsinki, Finland.
== Bibliography ==
* {{Lang|sv|Filologins studium vid Åbo universitet}} (1894) * {{Lang|de|Eusebius Werke I}} (1902) * {{Lang|fi|Sosialismi}} (1907) * {{Lang|de|Eusebius Werke VI}} (1913) * {{Lang|sv|Platon}} (1919) * {{Lang|sv|Från antikens värld}} (1920) * {{Lang|sv|Retorik}} (1923) * ''J. L. Runeberg'' (1926) * {{cite book |date=1927 |title=De kristna och den antika hedendomen : skildringar från kristendomsförföljelsernas och martyrernas tid |url=https://gupea.ub.gu.se/2077/84621 |location=Stockholm |publisher=Natur och kultur |language=sv}} * {{Lang|fi|Lyhyt ruotsin kielioppi}} (1928, 1930) * {{Lang|fi|Ruotsinkielen oppijakso I-II}} (1929) * {{Lang|fi|Stilistik}} (1929) * {{Lang|sv|Antik livssyn}} (1930) * {{Lang|sv|Kortfattad latinsk-svensk ordbok}} (1932) * {{Lang|sv|Grekisk-svensk ordbok till Nya Testamentet}} (1934, 4th edition 2013, with Anton Fridrichsen) * {{Lang|fi|Latinalais-suomalainen sanakirja}} (1935) * {{Lang|sv|Helsingfors universitet 1640–1940}}''/''{{Lang|fi|Helsingin yliopisto 1640–1940}} (1940) * {{Lang|sv|Minnen från min levnad I–III}} (1945–1947)
{{s-start}} {{s-edu}} {{s-bef|before=Edvard Hjelt}} {{s-ttl|title=Rector of Imperial Alexander University |years=1907–1911}} {{s-aft|after=Anders Donner}} {{s-bef|before={{ill|Waldemar Ruin|sv| |fi}}}} {{s-ttl|title=Rector of Helsinki University |years=1920–1922}} {{s-aft|after=Hugo Suolahti}} {{s-end}}
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