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HANS NIELSEN See also:HAUGE (1771–1824)
, See also:Norwegian Lutheran
divine, was See also:born in the See also:parish of Thunii, See also:Norway, on the 3rd of See also:April 1771, the son of a See also:peasant
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With the aid of various religious See also:works which he found in his See also:father's See also:house, he laboured to supplement his scanty See also:education
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In his twenty-See also:sixth See also:year, believing himself to be a divinely-commissioned See also:prophet, he began to preach in his native parish and afterwards throughout Norway, calling See also:people to repentance and attacking See also:rationalism
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In 1800 he passed to See also:Denmark, where, as at See also:home, he gained many followers and assistants, chiefly among the See also:lower orders
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Proceeding to See also:Christiansand in 1804, See also:Hauge set up a See also:printing-See also:press to disseminate his views more widely, but was almost immediately arrested for holding illegal religious meetings, and for insulting the See also:regular See also:clergy in his books, all of which were confiscated; he was also heavily fined
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After being in confinement for some years, he was released in 1814 on See also:payment of a See also:fine, and retiring to an See also:estate at Breddwill, near See also:Christiania, he died there on the 29th of See also: For an See also:account of his life and doctrines see C . See also:Bang's Hans Nielsen Hauge og hans Samtid (Christiania; 2nd ed., 1875); 0 . Rost, Nogle Bemaerkninger am Hans Nielsen Hauge og hans Retning (1883), and the article in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopddie . |
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