Hans Tausen

Hans Tausen (1494–1561), called the Danish Luther, was the leading theologian of the Danish Reformation. A Hospitaller monk who studied with Luther at Wittenberg from 1523, he preached the new doctrine at Viborg under the townspeople's protection, and in 1526 King Frederick I made him a chaplain. He was the first Danish priest to marry and the first reformer to conduct services in Danish instead of Latin.

He went to preach in Copenhagen in 1529. In 1535 he printed the first Danish Pentateuch, and in 1542 became Bishop of Ribe, holding the see until his death in 1561.