Peder Winstrup

Scandinavian, protestant theologian The Right ReverendPeder WinstrupBishop of LundBishop Peder Winstrup on a contemporary engraving printed in one of his own theological works in 1666ChurchChurch of Denmark and Church of SwedenDioceseLundAppointed1638Installed1638Term ended28 December 1679PredecessorMads Jensen MedelfarSuccessorCanutus HahnPersonal detailsBornPeder Pedersen Winstrup(1605-04-30)April 30, 1605Copenhagen, Denmark–NorwayDiedDecember 28, 1679(1679-12-28) (aged 74)BuriedLund CathedralParentsPeder Jensen Vinstrup Peder Pedersen Winstrup (30 April 1605 – 28 December 1679) was Bishop of Lund in Scania. Winstrup was bishop there during a period spanning both Danish and Swedish sovereignty and periods of war when the land was contested. He was married to the Danish noblewoman, Dorothea von Andersen who was an influential person in her own right in Scania and known to be strongly pro-Danish. Early life and education Winstrup was born in Copenhagen, then the capital of Denmark–Norway, on 30 April 1605. He was the son of Peder Jensen Vinstrup, Bishop of Zealand and professor of theology at the University of Copenhagen. After his father's death in 1614, his mother married h