Hans Mikkelsen

Hans Mikkelsen (died 1532) was a wealthy merchant who became a councillor in Malmö in 1503 and its burgomaster from 1508, and a trusted adviser of Christian II.

In 1520 he went to Stockholm to negotiate an alliance against the Hanseatic League. When Christian was driven from Denmark in 1523 he followed him, embracing Luther's teaching at Wittenberg.

He supervised the first Danish translation of the New Testament, printed in 1524, and himself translated the epistles of Paul. He followed the king to Norway in 1531 and died in 1532.