Sir ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...

Paul Peterson Paus (1625 in

Vinje Vinje is a municipality in Telemark in the county of Vestfold og Telemark in Norway. It is part of the traditional regions of Upper Telemark and Vest-Telemark. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Åmot. General inform ...

– 1682 in

Hjartdal Hjartdal is a municipality in Telemark in the county of Vestfold og Telemark in Norway. It is part of the traditional regions of Upper Telemark and Øst-Telemark. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sauland. The munic ...

), also rendered as Povel Pedersson Paus, was a Norwegian

cleric Clergy are formal leaders within established religions. Their roles and functions vary in different religious traditions, but usually involve presiding over specific rituals and teaching their religion's doctrines and practices. Some of the ter ...

and a signatory of the 1661

Sovereignty Act The Sovereignty Act or the Absolute and Hereditary Monarchy Act ( da, Suverænitetsakten or ''Enevoldsarveregeringsakten''; no, Enevoldsarveregjeringsakten or sometimes even ''Suverenitetsakten'') refers to two similar constitutional acts that i ...

, the new constitution of Denmark-Norway, as one of the 87 representatives of the Norwegian clerical estate, one of the two privileged

estates of the realm The estates of the realm, or three estates, were the broad orders of social hierarchy used in Christendom (Christian Europe) from the Middle Ages to early modern Europe. Different systems for dividing society members into estates developed and ...

in Denmark-Norway. He is known as the author of the 1653 poem "In memoriam Domini Petri Pavli", a loving poem in Latin in memory of his father

Peter Paulson Paus Dominus (title), Sir Peter Paulson Paus (1590 in Oslo – 21 July 1653, in Kviteseid), also rendered as Peder Povelsson Paus, was a Norwegian high-ranking cleric who served as the Provost (religion)#Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, provost of ...

. Paul Paus was reputed to be a learned and contemplative personality. His descendants include the playwright

Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playw ...

Life and work

After attending

Oslo Cathedral School Schola Osloensis, known in Norwegian language, Norwegian as Oslo Katedralskole (''Oslo Cathedral School'') and more commonly as "Katta",

and the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in ...

, he served as parish priest of the district of

from 1649 to 1682.

Magnus Brostrup Landstad Magnus Brostrup Landstad (7 October 1802 – 8 October 1880) was a Norwegian parish priest and provost, hymn writer, and poet who published the first collection of authentic Norwegian traditional ballads in 1853. Biography Landstad was born in ...

describes Paul Peterson Paus as a learned and pious priest, well versed in Latin, who unusually held on to Catholic customs in post-Reformation Norway even in the anti-Catholic and strictly Lutheran climate of his lifetime. He had a habit of walking around on the cemetery after sunset. "He went back and forth, up and down, deep in thought, or stood quietly with his head bowed and his hands folded over his chest. When one asked him why he did this, he replied that he was praying for all the departed

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s that burned in

purgatory Purgatory (, borrowed into English via Anglo-Norman and Old French) is, according to the belief of some Christian denominations (mostly Catholic), an intermediate state after physical death for expiatory purification. The process of purgatory ...

. Since he was no longer allowed to celebrate

requiem mass A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead ( la, Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead ( la, Missa defunctorum), is a Mass of the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, ...

for them inside the church, he had to do it outside, and it could certainly be needed, he believed."

, ''Gamle Sagn om Hjartdølerne'', 1880, pp. 37–54 Paul Peterson Paus is noted for his 1653 poem "In memoriam Domini Petri Pavli," a loving poem in Latin in memory of his father

, the provost of

Upper Telemark Upper Telemark ( no, Øvre Telemark) is a Norwegian region comprising the inland of the traditional district Telemark in Vestfold og Telemark county. More than two thirds of the total area of Telemark, or above 10,000 square kilometres, belong to ...

. Paul Peterson Paus was the father of parish prist of Kviteseid and poet

Hans Paus Sir Hans Paus (born 1656 in Hjartdal – 18 March 1715) was a Norwegian priest and poet. He was parish priest in Kviteseid from 1683 until his death. A popular man in his parish who learned the local dialect (at a time when most church officials a ...

and of district judge of Upper Telemark Cornelius Paus, and was the 4th great-grandfather of playwright

S. H. Finne-Grønn S is the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet. S may also refer to: History * an Anglo-Saxon charter's number in Peter Sawyer's, catalogue Language and linguistics * Long s (ſ), a form of the lower-case letter s formerly used where "s ...

(1943). "Hr. Povl Pedersen Paus." In ''Slekten Paus : dens oprindelse og 4 første generasjoner'' (pp. 22–23). Oslo: Cammermeyer. He used a

seal Seal may refer to any of the following: Common uses * Pinniped, a diverse group of semi-aquatic marine mammals, many of which are commonly called seals, particularly: ** Earless seal, or "true seal" ** Fur seal * Seal (emblem), a device to impr ...

, e.g. on the Sovereignty Act, with a reversed crane in its vigilance.Allan Tønnesen (ed.), ''Magtens besegling. Enevoldsarveregeringsakterne af 1661 og 1662 underskrevet og beseglet af stænderne i Danmark, Norge, Island og Færøerne'', Heraldisk Selskab/ Syddansk Universitetsforlag, Odense 2013, p. 372, File:Paus seal on the 1661 Sovereignty Act.svg, Paul Paus used a

with a reversed crane in its vigilance File:Ms.4 744 b Paus - håndskrift fra 1653 i Nasjonalbibliotekets håndskriftsamling, minnedikt på latin forfattet av sogneprest Povel Pedersson Paus til minne om faren Peder Povelsson Paus, prost i Øvre Telemark.jpg, Poem in Latin written by Paul Paus in memory of his father Peter Paus in 1653

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Paus, Povel 17th-century Norwegian Lutheran clergy Signatories of the Sovereignty Act People from Vinje People educated at Oslo Cathedral School University of Copenhagen alumni Povel Pedersson 1625 births 1682 deaths