Niels Hemmingsen

Niels Hemmingsen

Niels Hemmingsen (Nicolaus Hemmingius) (Taagerup 1513-Roskilde1600) was a Danish Lutheran theologian. He studied at the University of Wittenberg 1537 to 1542 under Melanchthon. Returning to Denmark, he became a prolific author of works in Latin. In 1574 he published Syntagma institutionum christianarum, but was obliged to retract it in 1576 following pressure from Augustus I of Saxony to suppress Crypto-Calvinism.^[1]

References

• Bayle Dictionary, English edition

1. ^ 'Tycho Brahe's German Treatise on the Comet of 1577: A Study in Science and Politics' by J. R. Christianson and Tycho Brahe Isis Vol. 70, No. 1 (Mar., 1979), pp. 110-140

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Name	Hemmingsen, Niels
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Date of birth	1513
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Date of death	1600
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