Niels Aagaard

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Niels Lauridsen Aagaard (* 1612 in Viborg ( Jutland ), † January 22, 1657 ) was a Danish writer and scholar .

Life

The brothers Niels and Christen were sons of the preacher Laurids Jensen Aagaard († 1628) and Maren Andersdatter Schytte († after 1657), who was active in Viborg. Niels Aagaard studied at the University of Copenhagen , became a baccalaureus in 1634 and traveled to the most important European countries from 1637 to 1640 to expand his knowledge. He visited u. a. the universities of Franeker , Leiden , Oxford and Cambridge . When he returned to Denmark, he obtained his master’s degree in 1641 and was Rector of Herlufsholm from 1641 to 1645 . In 1645 he became pastor in Faxe on the Danish island of Zealand and married the widowed Barbara Pedersdatter († 1654). From 1647 he was professor of eloquence and from 1650 also librarian at the academy in Sorø . He died on January 22, 1657 at the age of 45.

Niels Aagaard wrote numerous Latin and Greek poems as well as smaller critical and philological writings in Latin, among others. a. on Tacitus , Ammianus Marcellinus, and the New Testament style . He also wrote the political text De Optima regendae reipublicae forma (Sorø 1653), a panegyric speech on the Danish king Christian IV and a treatise on the letter Digamma (Sorø 1655).

Works

  • Animadversiones in Ammianum Marcellinum contra Boxhorn (Sorø 1654)
  • De optimo genere oratorum
  • De stylo Novi Testamenti
  • De usu Syllogismi in theologia
  • Prolusiones in Cornelium Tacitum (Sorø 1655)
  • De ignibus subterraneis
  • De nido phoenicis

literature

personal data
SURNAME Aagaard, Niels
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aagaard, Niels Lauridsen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1612
PLACE OF BIRTH Viborg (Jutland)
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1657