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HAUGE, HANS NIELSEN (1771–1824)

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HAUGE, HANS NIELSEN (1771–1824) , See also:Norwegian Lutheran divine, was See also:born in the See also:parish of Thunii, See also:Norway, on the 3rd of See also:April 1771, the son of a See also:peasant. With the aid of various religious See also:works which he found in his See also:father's See also:house, he laboured to supplement his scanty See also:education. In his twenty-See also:sixth See also:year, believing himself to be a divinely-commissioned See also:prophet, he began to preach in his native parish and afterwards throughout Norway, calling See also:people to repentance and attacking See also:rationalism. In 1800 he passed to See also:Denmark, where, as at See also:home, he gained many followers and assistants, chiefly among the See also:lower orders. Proceeding to See also:Christiansand in 1804, Hauge set up a See also:printing-See also:press to disseminate his views more widely, but was almost immediately arrested for holding illegal religious meetings, and for insulting the See also:regular See also:clergy in his books, all of which were confiscated; he was also heavily fined. After being in confinement for some years, he was released in 1814 on See also:payment of a See also:fine, and retiring to an See also:estate at Breddwill, near See also:Christiania, he died there on the 29th of See also:March 1824. His adherents, who did not formally break with the See also:church, were called Haugianer or Leser (i.e. Readers). He unquestionably did much to revive the spiritual See also:life of the See also:northern Lutheran Church. His views were of a pietistic nature. Though he cannot be said to have rejected any See also:article of the Lutheran creed, the See also:peculiar emphasis which he laid upon the evangelical doctrines of faith and See also:grace involved considerable antagonism to the rationalistic or sacerdotal views commonly held by the established clergy. Hauge's See also:principal writings are Forsog til Afhandeling om See also:Gilds Visdom (1796) ; Anvisning tie nogle morkelige Sprog i Bibelen (1798) ; Forklaring over Loven og Evangelium (1803).

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account of his life and doctrines see C. See also:Bang's Hans Nielsen Hauge og hans Samtid (Christiania; 2nd ed., 1875); 0. Rost, Nogle Bemaerkninger am Hans Nielsen Hauge og hans Retning (1883), and the article in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopddie.

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