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Johan Lilius

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Johan Lilius (1724–1803) was a Finnish justice of the Hovrätt in Åbo, at a time when this court was part of the judicial system of Sweden, and a founding member of the Aurora Society.[1][2]

Lilius was influential in the development and growth of Finnish literature and contributed among other things articles to Finland's first newspaper Åbo Tidningar.[2]

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  1. ^ Freudenthal, Axel Olof (1867). Bidrag till kännedom av Finlands natur och folk (in Swedish). Helsinki: Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters. p. 78.
  2. ^ a b Lagus, Wilhelm Gabriel (1834). Åbo hofrätts historia intill den 12 Nov. 1823, då hofrätten firade sin andra secular-fest (in Swedish). Helsinki: Frenckell. pp. 368–369.