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{{Short description|Swedish theologian}}Daniel Lorenz Salthenius (March 16, 1701 – January 29, 1750) was a professor of theology at the University of Königsberg from 1732 until his death.BOOK, Naragon, Steve, Klemme, Heiner F., Kuehn, Manfred, The Bloomsbury dictionary of eighteenth-century German philosophers, 2016, Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, 9781474256001, 645-6, Salthenius, Daniel Lorenz (1701–50),weblink Salthenius was born in Markim between Stockholm and Uppsala, Sweden, the son of a pastor. He studied at the university in his birthplace, as well as University of Halle, and became a noted Pietist. He was appointed to his post at Königsberg to help the Pietist cause there.Salthenius's orthodox Lutheran opponents accused him of having made a pact with the Devil when he was a student in Uppsala. He wrote a letter in his own blood, asking the Devil to provide him with a bottomless bag of money in exchange for his body and soul, and placed the letter under an oak tree, where it was found by a farmer who notified the authorities.BOOK, Kuehn, Manfred, Kant : a biography, 2001, Cambridge University Press, New York, 9780521497046, 71–2,weblink However, Salthenius was not dismissed from the university and remained a full professor. The letter is today kept at Uppsala University library.WEB, McCorristine, Shane, Beware the blood-curdling perils of academic research,weblink World.edu, 25 September 2021, 31 October 2020,

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