[Milton-L] more on Milton/ Kierkegaard in Denmark and a very feisty 17th C Danish priest influenced by meeting Milton and another Miltonist, an 18th C artist

[Ann Torday Gulden]

There is no mention of Milton in the biggest Kierkegaard concordance.
But that does not prove anything. Try here. They would be the experts:
http://www.sk.ku.dk/
Søren Kierkegaard Research Center,   University of Copenhagen

Kierkegaard was deeply enamoured of the Danish language and worked
throughout his writings to assert the strengths of his mother-tongue over
the invasive, imperialistic influences of Latin and German. With respect
to the former, Kierkegaard had to petition the king to be allowed to write
his philosophy dissertation On the Concept of Irony with constant
reference to Socrates in Danish. Even though permission was granted he was
still required to defend his dissertation publicly in Latin. Latin had
been the pan-European language of science and
scholarship. In Denmark, in Kierkegaard's time, German language and
culture were at least as dominant as Latin in the production of
knowledge.>

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kierkegaard/


Milton's Latin texts may/will have been read in the original in Denmark.
Milton was known in Denmark in his lifetime.



The priest who met him:
A Danish priest visited Milton! Here are the details from the Danish 
Biographical Lexicon, my translation:

Lassenius, Johan, 1636-92, Theologian,
born 26. April 1636 in the country town Waldow in the area of 
Neufahrwasser in
Pommern, where his father
  Jeschius (Johannes) L. of the well known Polish aristocratic family
Laszcynski, was Priest; his mothe's name was Anna Sieverts. The son 
visited highschools in Stolpe and Danzig and was in 1654 admitted to the
  Universitety in Rostock, where he studied theology in his 3rd year.
As maitre chargé for a young aristocrat he travelled in France, where he 
came to the notice of Mazarin of England (?) where he made the 
acquaintance of Milton.

When home again he set out to travel again with two young princes and 
visited Spain and Portugal. After his return to Denmark he gained a 
position at the library in Berlin and resumed his studies particularly 
in Leiden and Strasburg, where he took his Magister degree.


In Nürnberg he preached for large congregations and was a passionate 
speaker against the Catholic Church, particularly against the Jesuits. 
His strongly polemical texts drew the hate of some well known Prelates 
in Bayer and he was arrested on his way to Donauwørth, and taken 
prisoner to Vienna. He was eventually tried by the Emperor at Presburg. 
When he refused to deny his faith or renege his beliefs as published in 
his texts, he was taken under heavy guard to the Turkish border where 
the intention was to deliver him up to the Turks, but he escaped. After 
travelling about for a long period, during which time he risked his life 
as a performing actor with the famous Treuske Troupe, he arrived in 1665 
with only the bare necessities via Magdeburg and Helmstadt to Itzeho 
where the mayor looked after him and gave him the vacant position of 
Rctor and Monday priest in town. In 1666 he gained his theological 
doctorate in Griefswald. Lassenius preached regularly at Breitenburg. He 
soon won the approval of the Duke D. Rantzaus  who awarded him the 
honour of being his court priest  and provost of the Ducal churches. The 
article goes on to describe his influence in Copenhagen .


The artist:
 From the Danish Biographical lexicon, my translation:
Carstens, Asmus Jacob, 1754-98, Drawings and paintings

......
When he towards the end of 1789 exhibited his large drawing 'The Fall of 
the Evil Angels'(after Milton; now in Weimar), his art elicited much 
interest and the following year he was offered Professorship of the 
Berlin Academy with a yearly salary of 150 Thlr.

( not sure of this currency!)

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