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SVANE [or SVANING], HANS (16o61668)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 175 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
SVANE [or SVANING], HANS (16o61668) , Danish statesman and ecclesiastic, was born on the 27th of
March
  16o6, at
Horsens
 , where his father, Hans Riber, was burgomaster. His mother Anne was a daughter of the historian Hans Svaning, whose name, subsequently altered to Svane, he adopted. At Copenhagen Svane devoted himself to the study of Oriental languages, and between 1628 and 1635 completed his education abroad, at Franeker in Friesland, Wittenberg,
Oxford
  and Paris. After seven years' residence abroad Svane returned to occupy the chair of Oriental languages at the university of Copenhagen. In 1646, finding promotion slow, he turned to theology and was " created " Dr theol. by his old patron Jesper Brochmand, now bishop of Sjaelland, whom he succeeded in the
metropolitan
  see of Denmark on the 26th of January 1655. As a theologian he belonged to the severely orthodox Lutheran school. His scholarship, despite the erudition of his commentary to the prophet Daniel in two huge folio volumes, is questionable. But in Latin and Danish he won distinction as a speaker, and his funeral orations in both languages were admired by his contemporaries. At the famous rigsdag of 166o he displayed debating talent of a high order and played an important political role. It was Svane who, at the opening of the rigsdag, proposed that only members of the council of state should be entitled to fiefs and that all other estates should be leased to the highest
bidder
  whatever his social station. At a hint from the king he laboured to get the royal charter abolished and the elective monarchy transformed into an hereditary monarchy. The clerical deputies followed him in a serried band, as the burgesses followed Nansen, and the bishop's palace was one of the meeting-places for the camarilla which was privy to the absolutist designs of Frederick III. Throughout the session Svane was chairman of " the Conjoined Estates " in their attacks upon the
nobility
 , his watchword being: Equal rights for all and a free hand for the king. It was on his motion (Oct. 8) that the Commons agreed " to offer his majesty the crown as an hereditary crown," to which proposition the
nobility
  acceded, under severe pressure, two days later. When, on the 13th, the three estates assembled at the castle, it was Svane's speech, as president of the estate of the clergy, which gave t he solemnit y its ultra-royalist character. He, too, quashed the timid attempt of the more liberal minded of the deputies to obtain a promise from the king of some sort of a constitution. In fact, excepting the king and queen, nobody contributed so powerfully to the introduction of absolutism into Denmark as the bishop of Copenhagen. He was raised to the dignity of archbishop, a title which no other Danish prelate has since borne, and as president of the academic consistory of the university (an office which was invented for and died with him) he took precedence of the
rector
  magnificus. He was also created a royal councillor, an assessor of the supreme court and a member of the scats kollegiet or council of state. His
elevation
  seems to have turned his head. The university suffered the most from his extravagant pretensions; and his quarrels with all the professors at last caused such a scandal that the king had to interfere personally. A bishop who was at the same time a privy councillor,a minister of state and a judge of the supreme court could have but little time for spiritual duties. Yet Svane was not altogether neglectful of them. Especially noteworthy is his plan for the erection of a consistorial college for managing all the temporal affairs of the church, including education and poor relief, anticipating to some extent the modern ministries of education and public
worship
 , which unfortunately was not adopted. Moreover, the privileges which he obtained for the clergy did much to increase the welfare and independence of the Danish Church in difficult times, while his representations to the king that Danish theology was not likely to be promoted by placing Germans over the heads of native professors bore good fruit. Svane died on the 26th of July 1668, in his 62nd year.
See Detlev Gotthard Zwergius, Siellandske derisie (Copenhagen, 1754). (R. N. B.)


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