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See also:HELGESEN, POVL ,1 Danish humanist, was See also:born at Varberg
in Halland about 1480, of a Danish See also:father and a See also:Swedish See also:mother.
Helgesen was educated first at the Carmelite monastery of
his native See also:place and afterwards at another monastery at See also:Elsinore,
where he devoted himself to humanistic studies and adopted
See also:Erasmus as his See also:model. None had a keener See also:eye for the abuse-
of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church; See also:long before the See also:appearance of See also:Luther, he
denounced the See also:ignorance and immorality of the See also:clergy, and, as
See also:lector at the university of See also:Copenhagen, gathered See also:round him a
See also:band of See also:young enthusiasts, the future leaders of the Danish
See also:Reformation. But Helgesen desired an orderly, methodical,
rational reformation, and denounced Luther, whose ablest
opponent in See also:Denmark he subsequently became, as a hot-headed
revolutionist. See also:Christian II. was also an See also:object of Helgesen's
detestation, and so boldly did he oppose that monarch's See also:measures
1 He wrote his name Heliae or Eliae.
that, to See also:save his See also:life, he had to flee to See also:Jutland. Under See also:Frederick I. (1523–1533) he returned to Copenhagen and resumed his See also:chair at the university, becoming soon afterwards provincial of the Carmelite See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order for Scandinavia. But like all moderate men in a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of crisis, Helgesen could gain the confidence of neither party, and was frequently attacked as bitterly by the Catholics as by the Protestants. From 1530 to 1533 he and the See also:Protestant See also:champion Hans See also:Tausen exhausted the whole vocabulary of vituperation in their fruitless polemics. In See also:October 1534, however, Helgesen issued an eirenicon in which he attempted to reconcile the two contending confessions. After that every trace of him is lost. For a long time he was unjustly regarded as a turn-coat, but he was too See also:superior to the prejudices of his See also:age to be understood by his contemporaries. His ideal was a moral See also:internal reformation of the Church on a rational basis, conducted not by See also:ill-informed fanatics, but by an enlightened and well-educated clergy; and. from this standpoint he never diverged. Helgesen was indisputably the greatest See also:master of See also:style of his age in Denmark, and as a historian he also occupies a prominent position. He always endeavours to probe down to the very soul of things, though his passionate nature made it very difficult for him to be impartial. His See also:chief See also:works are Danmark's Kongers Historie and Skibby Kroniken.
See See also:Ludwig Schmitt, Der Karmeliter See also:Paulus Melia (See also:Freiburg, 1893) ; Danmarks Riges Historie (Copenhagen, 1897-1905), vol. iii.
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