Христиани Педерсен

Christiern Pedersen (ок. 1480 - 16 января 1554 г.) был датским каноном , гуманистическим ученым, писателем, принтером и издателем .

Образование

Кристиерн Педерсен родился в Хельсингоре , Дания . Он учился в Роскилде и учился с 1496 года в Университете Грейфсвальд . Он получил степень бакалавриата в 1498 году и с 1505 года был каноном в соборе Лунд .

Он учился в Парижском университете с 1508 по 1515 год, где в 1511 году он получил степень магистра искусств . Во время своего пребывания в Париже он проявил интерес к письменной форме, переводу и публикации. В то время Париж был бесспорным капиталом все еще новой печатной прессы . Рассматривая написание нового латинского - датского лексикона , он написал замену 300-летней латинской грамматики, доктринале , написанной в 1199 году Александром Вилллиеу , и все еще используется в качестве стандарта в школах Дании в то время. В 1510 году он опубликовал свой новый латино-данишский лексикон, который называется Vocabularium ad usum dacorum .

Gesta Danorum

Title page of Danorum Regum heroumque Historiae, Paris 1514

He wanted to publish the huge 300-year-old chronicle of Denmark, Gesta Danorum, written by Saxo Grammaticus, but he had difficulty in gaining access to a manuscript of the work. At that time the most knowledge of this work came from a summary called Compendium Saxonis located in Chronica Jutensis, dated about 1342. Undoubtedly this is also how Pedersen knew of it.

Pedersen began to send letters to friends all over Denmark, trying to locate a manuscript, but they either did not have one or did not want to release it to him. He finally travelled to Denmark to search through libraries and monasteries, but still could not find one. Unexpectedly a letter arrived from Archbishop Birger Gunnersen of Lund stating that he had found a copy in his district and it would be made available to Pedersen.

With the help of Jodocus Badius Ascensius (also known as Jodocus Van Asche Badius), whose relationship with Pedersen had now grown to more than just a professional one, they published this first edition, editio princeps, of the Gesta Danorum, titled Danorum Regum heroumque Historiae, 15 March 1514, in Paris. This is today the oldest known complete copy of Saxo’s Gesta Danorum.

The later years

In 1516, Pedersen returned to Lund and worked for Archbishop Birger Gunnersen. In 1522, he became Kanzler under the new archbishop, Johann Wess. However, during the reign of the next archbishop, Aage Sparre, Pedersen was accused of treason, among other things, resulting in Pedersen leaving for Germany. As he was loyal to King Christian II, he followed him in exile to the Netherlands in 1526, after meeting him in Berlin, where he spent the next five years in the then-Dutch city of Lier.

In 1529, he renounced his Catholicism (and his canon status) and became Lutheran. Consequently, Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Low Countries asked Christian II to dismiss him, but the exiled king ignored her request.

He did not return to Denmark before 1532, and got permission to settle in Malmø, where he opened a printing press shop. His continued loyalty towards King Christian II gained him no friends among the nobility, and it did not get better when later he actively participated in the Civil War (Grevens Fejde) on the losers' side.

He married Else Jacobsdatter in 1534 in Malmø, who died during childbirth in 1539. Pedersen sold his printing press shop and moved to Copenhagen in 1541. During these years he translated the Bible to Danish. This was to become his life's work, which sometimes earns him the title "the father of Danish literature". Finished in 1543, but first published in 1550, this work, Biblia, was not only a masterpiece of translation, but also technically excellent, with good-quality graphics and woodcuts. This is the first complete Danish Bible translation. 3000 copies were printed by Ludwig Dietz.

Pedersen was ill during the last 10 years of his life, but he continued to work until his death in 1554, while he was living with relatives in Helsinge.

Publications

Pedersen's notable works include:

• 1510, Vocabularium ad usum Dacorum (A Latin-to-Danish Lexicon)
• 1514, Danorum Regum heroumque Historiae (publishing of Saxo's Gesta Danorum)
• 1515, "Jærtegnspostil"
• 1529, "Det Ny Testamente" (A translation of the New Testament)
• 1533, "Nøttelig Legebog faar Fattige och Rige Unge och Gamle" (A medical book)
• 1534, "Karl Magnus Krønike" (A free re-write of Charlemagne legends)
• 1534, "Kong Holger Danskes Krønike" (A free re-write based on the French 15th century 'Ogier le Dannoys')
• 1550, "Biblia - Christian d.3.s Bibel" (Translation of the Bible,- this is the first complete Danish Bible translation)

Additionally, a revised edition of the Danish "Rimkrøniken" and a Danish translation of Saxo’s "Gesta Danorum" were produced. It was never published and was lost in the library fire at Copenhagen University in 1728.

He published and/or wrote many other smaller works.

References

• Apoteker Sibbernsens Saxobog, C. A. Reitzels Forlag, Copenhagen, 1927
• Anders Sørensen Vedel, Den Danske Krønicke Saxo-oversættelse 1575 udgivet i facsimile af Det danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab, G. E. C Gad, Copenhagen, 1967
• Helle Stangerup, Saxo Hans værk – Hans verden, Høst & Søn forlag 2004, ISBN 87-14-29949-6

Внешние ссылки

• "Педерсен, Кристиан" . Энциклопедия Британская (11 -е изд.). 1911.
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