Magnus

Magnus or MAGNI, OLAUS, Swedish historian, was born at Linköping in 1490, and became secretary to his elder brother Johannes, Archbishop of Upsala. At the Reformation both brothers went abroad, and ultimately settled in Rome. On the death of Johannes, Olaus became titular archbishop, and died in 1558. Both brothers wrote on Swedish history; the famous work of Olaus is his Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (1555).