POVL See also:

• POVL HELGESEN

HELGESEN  ,1 Danish humanist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Varberg in Halland about 1480, of a Danish See also:

• FATHER

father and a See also:

• SWEDISH

Swedish See also:

• MOTHER

mother . See also:

• HELGESEN, POVL

Helgesen was educated first at the Carmelite monastery of his native See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place and afterwards at another monastery at See also:

• ELSINORE (Dan. Helsingor)

Elsinore, where he devoted himself to humanistic studies and adopted See also:

• ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS (1466–1536)

Erasmus as his See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model . None had a keener See also:

• EYE
• EYE (O. Eng. edge, Ger. Auge; derived from an Indo-European root also seen in Lat. oc-ulus, the organ of vision (q.v.)

eye for the abuse- of the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church; See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long before the See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance of See also:

• LUTHER, MARTIN (1483-1546)

Luther, he denounced the See also:

• IGNORANCE (Lat. ignorantia, from ignorare, not to know); want of knowledge, a state of mind which in law has important consequences. A well-known legal maxim runs: ignorantia juris non excusat ("ignorance of the law does not excuse")

ignorance and immorality of the See also:

• CLERGY (M.E. clergie, O. Fr. clergie, from Low Lat. form clericia [Skean, by assimilation with O. Fr. clergie, Fr. clerge,from Low Lat. clericatus)
• CLERGY, BENEFIT OF

clergy, and, as See also:

• LECTOR, or READER

lector at the university of See also:

• COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

Copenhagen, gathered See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round him a See also:

• BAND

band of See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young enthusiasts, the future leaders of the Danish See also:

• REFORMATION
• REFORMATION, THE

Reformation . But Helgesen desired an orderly, methodical, rational reformation, and denounced Luther, whose ablest opponent in See also:

• DENMARK
• DENMARK (Danmark)

Denmark he subsequently became, as a hot-headed revolutionist . See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian II. was also an See also:

• OBJECT

object of Helgesen's detestation, and so boldly did he oppose that monarch's See also:

• MEASURES

measures 1 He wrote his name Heliae or Eliae . that, to See also:

• SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save his See also:

• LIFE

life, he had to flee to See also:

• JUTLAND (Danish Jylland)

Jutland . Under See also:

• FREDERICK
• FREDERICK (Mod. Ger. Friedrich; Ital. Federigo; Fr. Frederic and Federic; M.H.G. Friderich; O.H.G. Fridurih, " king or lord of peace," from O.H.G. fridu, A.S. frith, " peace," and rfh " rich," " a ruler," for derivation of which see HENRY)

Frederick I . (1523–1533) he returned to Copenhagen and resumed his See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair at the university, becoming soon afterwards provincial of the Carmelite See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

Order for Scandinavia . But like all moderate men in a See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of crisis, Helgesen could gain the confidence of neither party, and was frequently attacked as bitterly by the Catholics as by the Protestants . From 1530 to 1533 he and the See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant See also:

• CHAMPION (Fr. champion, Late Lat. campio from campus; a field or open space, i.e. one " who takes the field " or fights; cf. Ger. Kampf, battle, and Kampfer, fighter)

champion Hans See also:

• TAUSEN, HANS (1494-1561)

Tausen exhausted the whole vocabulary of vituperation in their fruitless polemics . In See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1534, however, Helgesen issued an eirenicon in which he attempted to reconcile the two contending confessions . After that every trace of him is lost .

For a long time he was unjustly regarded as a turn-coat, but he was too See also:

• SUPERIOR

superior to the prejudices of his See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age to be understood by his contemporaries . His ideal was a moral See also:

• INTERNAL

internal reformation of the Church on a rational basis, conducted not by See also:

• ILL

ill-informed fanatics, but by an enlightened and well-educated clergy; and. from this standpoint he never diverged . Helgesen was indisputably the greatest See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style of his age in Denmark, and as a historian he also occupies a prominent position . He always endeavours to probe down to the very soul of things, though his passionate nature made it very difficult for him to be impartial . His See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• WORKS

works are Danmark's Kongers Historie and Skibby Kroniken . See See also:

• LUDWIG, KARL FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1816—1895)
• LUDWIG, OTTO (1813-1865)

Ludwig Schmitt, Der Karmeliter See also:

• PAULUS
• PAULUS (older form PAur.Lus), LUCIUS AEMILIUS
• PAULUS, HEINRICH

Paulus Melia (See also:

• FREIBURG

Freiburg, 1893) ; Danmarks Riges Historie (Copenhagen, 1897-1905), vol. iii .