Christiern Pedersen
Christiern Pedersen (* before 1480 in Helsingør ; † January 16, 1554 in Helsinge ) was a Danish humanist and writer .
Life
Pedersen studied in Greifswald in 1496 and can be traced back to 1505 as a canon in Lund . From 1516 he studied in Paris . From 1516 he lived mainly in Denmark at the court of Christian II. Together with the king he fled to the Netherlands and in 1529 joined the Lutheran doctrine. In 1532 we find Pedersen as a printer in Malmö .
Pedersen was an important representative of the Renaissance in Denmark. He does a lot for the Editio princeps of the Gesta Danorum of the Saxo Grammaticus .
With his work Pedersen laid the foundation for the development of the Danish written language. He supported the Danish Reformation with his translation of the New Testament from 1529 (revised 1531), which became the basis of the so-called Christian III Bible from 1550 (printed by Ludwig Dietz ), as well as with the printing of translations of Luther's writings and his own works .
Works
- Christian den Tredjes Bible (1550)
- Kong Olger Danskes Kroenike (1534)
- Om Urte Uand. Malmo 1534.
literature
- Einar W. Anderson: Studies in Luthers influence on Christiern Pedersen's Danish New Testament of 1531 . - Urbana, Ill., Univ. Pr., 1944
- Cai M. Woel: Christiern Pedersen . - Copenhagen, Duplex, 1959
- Ingun Montgomery: Christiern Pedersen. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 7, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-048-4 , Sp. 127-129.
- Martin Schwarz Lausten: Pedersen, Christiern . In: Religion in Past and Present , 4th ed., Vol. 6, 2003, Col. 1079
- Jens Anker Jørgensen: Humanists Christiern Pedersen - En Præsentation . CA Reitzel, 2007. ISBN 978-87-7876-486-7
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pedersen, Christians |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish humanist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1480 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elsinore |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1554 |
| Place of death | Helsinge |