Hans Brask
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*Hans Brask (1464–1538) was a Swedish Bishop of Linköping.[1]
Biography
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Brask was born in
Brask supported the Danish king Christian II, but was not part of the events that led to the infamous massacre in Stockholm 1520. After Gustav Vasa's rebellion, he was forced to join the new king's side, but he would become an opponent of the king's politics. The events of 1527 diet in Västerås led to Brask fleeing the country to Poland.
Brask was an active man with many ideas. He was the first man to plan a canal between the two large Swedish lakes, Vänern and Vättern. He was running a printing house in Söderköping. The correspondence between Brask and others is an important source of history in a country where not much was written down.
Bishop Brask is believed to have died in
where his tombstone is seen to this day.References
- ^ d'Aubigné, Jean Henri Merle (1880). History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin. R. Carter & brothers.
Bishop Brask of Linkoping was a priest endowed with immense energy. The outcries of the monks at Orebro were heard as far as Upsala; and in July, 1523, Brask received from the chapter of this metropolitan town a letter in which he was informed that the Lutheran heresy was boldly preached in the cathedral of Strengnaes by one Olaf Petri. It appears that this information was absolutely new to the vehement bishop. Completely devoted to the Roman Church, not even imagining that there could be any other, he was greatly agitated. He heard shortly after that emissaries of the Lutheran propaganda had made their appearance in his own diocese. He looked on this as the beginning of a great conflagration which would consume the whole Church.
- ^ Entry of Hans Brask in the Rostock Matrikelportal
- ^ "Brask". Nordisk familjebok (in Swedish). 1878. pp. 1062–1063 – via Project Runeberg.
- ^ a b "Braska och brasklapp" [Braska and brasklapp]. Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore (in Swedish). Retrieved 30 November 2019.
- ^ Hans Brask, https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/artikel/16873, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (in Swedish) (art av L. Sjödin.), Retrieved 2020-02-06.
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