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HELGESEN, POVL ,1 Danish humanist, was born at Varberg in Halland about 1480, of a Danish father and a Swedish mother. Helgesen was educated first at the Carmelite monastery of his native place and afterwards at another monastery at Elsinore, where he devoted himself to humanistic studies and adopted Erasmus
of the Church; long before the appearance of Luther, hedenounced the ignorance and immorality of the clergy, and, as lector at the university of Copenhagen, gathered round him a band of young
Reformation. But Helgesen desired an orderly, methodical, rational reformation, and denounced Luther, whose ablest opponent in Denmark he subsequently became, as a hot-headed revolutionist. Christian II. was also an object of Helgesen's detestation, and so boldly did he oppose that monarch's measures
1 He wrote his name Heliae or Eliae. that, to save his life, he had to flee to Jutland. Under Frederick I. (15231533) he returned to Copenhagen and resumed his chair at the university, becoming soon afterwards provincial of the Carmelite Order for Scandinavia. But like all moderate men in a 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 Protestant
chief
See Ludwig Schmitt, Der Karmeliter Paulus Melia (Freiburg, 1893) ; Danmarks Riges Historie (Copenhagen, 1897-1905), vol. iii. End of Article: HELGESEN, POVL If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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