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- Latin:
- Paulus Helie, Paulus Eliae, or Paulus Eliesen
- Born:
- c. 1485,, Varberg, Danish Sweden
- Died:
- c. 1535
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Paul Helgesen
Danish humanist
Also known as: Paulus Eliae, Paulus Eliesen, Paulus Helie
Paul Helgesen (born c. 1485, Varberg, Danish Sweden—died c. 1535) was a Danish Humanist and champion of Scandinavian Roman Catholicism who opposed the Lutheran Reformation in Denmark. The author of several works against Scandinavian Reformers, he also translated works by the Dutch Humanist Erasmus and wrote the Skiby chronicle, a discussion of Danish religious and political events of his time. He refused to break with the pope and the Roman Catholic Church but criticized the worldliness of the church and the selling of indulgences.
A Carmelite monk, he was professor of theology at the University of Copenhagen (1519–22) and was provincial (province superior) of the Scandinavian Carmelites (1522–34).
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