Hans Svaning (1503 – 20 September 1584) was a

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Biography

Svaning was born at the village of Svaninge on

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. He attended Vor Frue skole in Copenhagen and the

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graduating in 1529 and in 1533 receiving his master's degree. Between 1541–52, he was the tutor of Prince Frederick, later King Frederick II of Denmark and became a royal historiographer in 1553. In 1539 he became professor of rhetoric at the

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. In 1547, he received the deanery at

Ribe Ribe () is a town in south-west Jutland, Denmark, with a population of 8,257 (2022). It is the seat of the Diocese of Ribe covering southwestern Jutland. Until 1 January 2007, Ribe was the seat of both a surrounding municipality and county. It ...

. His main work was a complete Danish history in Latin, ''Danmarkshistorie'', which was completed in manuscript in 1579 and stored in the University of Copenhagen Library but lost in the

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. Svaning died in Ribe in 1584, aged 81 years. Hans Svaning ''Dansk biografisk Lexikon'' Retrieved December 1, 2020

References

1503 births 1584 deaths People from the Region of Southern Denmark University of Wittenberg alumni Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen 16th-century Danish historians Historiographers {{Denmark-historian-stub