Haquin level
Haquin Spegel , also Håkan Spegel (born June 14, 1645 in Ronneby , † April 17, 1714 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish Lutheran theologian, clergyman (most recently Archbishop of Uppsala) and poet.
Life
Spegel, son of the businessman Daniel Spegel and his wife Margareta Fischer from Westphalia , studied Protestant theology from 1662 in Lund , later on a trip abroad in Germany (including with Heinrich Müller in Rostock and Abraham Calov in Wittenberg ), Holland and England. After returning in 1666, he was a tutor in Malmö. In 1671 he received his doctorate in Lund to Mag. Phil. and became a priest ordained . He then worked in Strängnäs as court preacher to the queen widow Hedwig Eleonora of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf .
In 1675, King Charles XI appointed him to the court preacher . Mainly thanks to the campaigns in Skåne during the Northern War , where Spegel was the chief field chaplain , Spegel won the trust of the king, whose marriage to Ulrike Eleonore of Denmark and Norway he carried out in 1680.
As early as 1679, Spegel had been appointed superintendent of Visby . He helped to integrate the island of Gotland , which had only just been recaptured from Denmark, into the Swedish Church and the Swedish Empire, but was also called upon to work in Stockholm again and again. From 1682 he was a member of the parish of the Reichstag . Among other things, he worked on the revision of the church constitution , which was completed in 1686, as well as on the new catechism and the new translation of the Bible ("Karl XII.-Bible" from 1703), later also on the hymn book of 1694. In 1685 he became bishop in the Diocese of Skara , 1693 bishop in the Diocese of Linköping . In 1711 he became the successor of Erik Benzelius the Elder. Ä. appointed Archbishop of Uppsala and served as the highest dignitary of the Church of Sweden until his death . Here he fought the pietism that invaded Stockholm .
From 1683 Spegel was married to Anna Schultin († 1730), the widow of Bishop Johannes Brodinus . The only son Jakob died in childhood. One daughter married the future Archbishop Johannes Steuchius , another with the later Reichsrat Joachim von Düben the Elder. Ä.
Literary work
From an early age, Spegel was also active as a poet. He wrote numerous hymns, 56 of which were in the hymnbook of 1694 and nine in the current Swedish hymnbook from 1986. In 1685 his main work, the verse epic Gudz Verk och hvila ( God's work and rest ), which tells the story of creation, appeared . He later added the epics Thet öpna Paradis, Thet tilslutna Paradis and Thet återvundna Paradis , which take up the model of John Milton . He also published sermons, biblical interpretations, a presentation of Swedish church history ( Then swenska kyrkiohistorian , 1707/08) and a dictionary ( Glossarium sveo-gothicum , 1712).
literature
- Bengt Hägglund : Spegel, Haquin. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 896-898.
- Nils Ekedahl: Det svenska Israel. Myt och retorik i Haquin Spegels predikokonst (= Studia Rhetorica Upsaliensia. No. 2). Gidlund, Uppsala 1999, ISBN 91-7844-295-8 ( Also : Uppsala, Universität, Dissertation, 1999).
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Erik Benzelius the Elder |
Archbishop of Uppsala 1711–1714 |
Mattias Steuchius |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spegel, Haquin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spegel, Håkan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish theologian and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1645 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ronneby |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1714 |
| Place of death | Uppsala |