 He was tutor to the family of the priest Henrik Argillander in Kuopio in 1730.While there, he wrote the short text "De effectibus fascino naturalibus", about traditional magical customs and rituals in the Kuopio region, providing some of the first evidence for these phenomena in Finland.He developed this material as a doctoral thesis, and was examined in 12 August 1733 by Johan Thorwöste.