Christian II's Bible

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Christian II's Bible is the common Danish name for the first Danish translation of the New Testament published in 1524, which was published based on the model of the Luther Bible after the decision of the Danish King Christian II .

background

Since 1521 the Danish King Christian II had tried to enforce the Reformation in his domain . After the nobility rose up against him in Denmark and Norway, he fled to Wittenberg in 1523 , where he lived in Lucas Cranach's house. Luther's translation of the New Testament was published in 1522 . Christian II then decided that a Danish translation of the New Testament should also be created. The translation was done by Christian Vinter , Hans Mikkelsen and Henrik Smith . The basis for the translation was the Latin translation of Erasmus von Rotterdam and Martin Luther's translation . In 1524 the translation appeared under the title Thette ere thz Nøye testamenth paa danske ret effter latinen vdsatthe . Leipzig was given as the place of origin , but it was actually printed in Wittenberg.

The translation is deemed to have been made hastily with little care. She suffered from inconsistent translations and orthographic problems. The population found Christian II's Bible difficult to read. Christiern Pedersen therefore published the New Testament in a new translation in 1529 (revised in 1531). Apparently, after the New Testament was published, the translation of the rest of the Biblical books into Danish did not make slow progress until the 1530s and 1540s. In 1535 the Pentateuch by Hans Tausen was published. It was not until 1550 that the first Danish full Bible appeared, known as Christian III's Bible .

Individual evidence

  1. Hans Volz : Martin Luther's German Bible. Hamburg 1978, p. 244.
  2. Ebenzer Henderson: Leipzig Literary Gazette for the year 1916. Bible translation. A dissertation on Hans Mekkelsen's or the first danish translation of the new Testament , p. 2224
  3. Hans Volz: Martin Luther's German Biblical. Hamburg 1978, p. 244.
  4. History of the Low German Bible , accessed on: November 4, 2017
  5. Hans Volz: Martin Luther's German Bible. Hamburg 1978, p. 244.
  6. Hans Volz: Martin Luther's German Bible. Hamburg 1978, p. 244.

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