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[German Version] (1503, Ribe, Jutland – 1560, Copenhagen), Lutheran reformer of Denmark. After studying in Wittenberg (Dr.theol., 1537), Palladius was charged with the double office of superintendent (bishop) of Zealand and professor in the newly founded university of Copenhagen, in addition to carrying through the Reformation. He made an inestimable contribution as a leader in building up the Protestant church and education. His great ability in the areas of administration and educational method …

[German Version] (c. 1480, Helsingør, Zealand – 1554, Helsinge), writer, printer, and publisher. After studying in Greifswald, Paris, and Leuven, he was appointed chancellor of the archbishop of Lund. Having started as a reforming Catholic Humanist, he became a Lutheran in 1529. His greatest literary contribution was his edition of the Gesta Danorum of the historian Saxo Grammaticus (1514). His Catholic piety is reflected in his postil of 1515. As a Lutheran, he published his own translation of the New Testament (1529, revised 1531) as well as wo…

[German Version] I. History – II. Theological Faculty I. History For unknown reasons, the papal approbation of 1419 permitting the establishment of a university in Denmark produced no results; not until the bull of Sixtus IV did it prove possible to found the University of Copenhagen on the model of Cologne(III), an event which took place under King Christian I (Jun 1, 1479). The founding documents and statutes of the faculty of law have been preserved. Closed down dur…

[German Version] (Paulus Helie; c. 1485, Varberg [then Denmark, now Sweden] – c. 1535), Bacc.Theol., priest, lecturer in the Carmelite College and at the University in Copenhagen, and a provincial. He was extremely critical of Scholasticism, while maintaining that the Roman Church was the sole way to salvation. The Church, however, was in need of reform with the aim of “a unity of devout theological doctrine and a devotion shaped by it.” As a student of Erasmus, Helgesen acknowledged elements of L…

[German Version] (1494, Birkende, Funen, Denmark – 1561, Ribe), Lutheran Reformer. As a friar of the Order of St. John, he studied in Copenhagen, Rostock, Leuven, and finally in 1523/1524 in Wittenberg, where he immediately broke with the Roman church. Moving to Viborg in 1525 and Copenhagen in 1529, he was one of the leading Danish Reformers. He wrote polemical and liturgical works, translated the Pentateuch from Hebrew into Danish, and composed homilies for all the Sundays and feasts of the church year. Theologically he was a more staunch disciple of Luther than were the other ¶ Danish Re…

[German Version] I. Mission and Christian Middle Ages – II. Reformation and Orthodoxy – III. Pietism and Enlightenment – IV. 19th and 20th Centuries I. Mission and Christian Middle Ages 1. Missionary period Christian mission had been active for almost 300 years before the country officially accepted Christianity. King Harald I was the first to be baptized (c. 965) and order that Christianity be adopted in the kingdom. Before and …