Haquin Spegel

Haquin ( Håkan ) Spegel (* June 14, 1645 in Ronneby, † April 17, 1714 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish Lutheran theologian, priest ( last Archbishop of Uppsala ) and poet.

Life

Spegel, son of businessman Daniel Spegel and its coming from Westphalia Ms Margareta Fischer, studied Protestant theology from 1662 in Lund, and later on a trip abroad in Germany ( among others, Heinrich Müller in Rostock and Abraham Calov in Wittenberg), Holland and England. After his return in 1666 he was a tutor in Malmö. 1671 he received his doctorate in Lund for phil Mag. and was ordained a priest. Subsequently, he worked as a court preacher at Straengnaes of Dowager Queen Hedwig Eleonora of Schleswig -Holstein - Gottorp.

1675 called King Charles XI. him to court preacher. Thanks primarily to the field trains in Skåne in the Northern War, where Spegel acted as supreme chaplain, Spegel won the confidence of the king, whose marriage with Ulrike Eleonora of Denmark and Norway, he performed in 1680.

As 1679 Spegel was appointed as superintendent of Visby. He helped to integrate the just back from Denmark conquered the island of Gotland in the Swedish Church and the Swedish Empire, but was constantly used also to work in Stockholm. Among other things, he worked on the revision of the constitution of the church, which was in 1686 completed, as well as in the new Catechism and the new translation of the Bible, and later in the new hymnal of 1694th In 1685 he became bishop in the Diocese of Skara, in 1693 bishop in the Diocese of Linköping. 1711 he was appointed as successor by Erik Benzelius Elder appointed Archbishop of Uppsala and served until his death as the highest dignitaries of the Church of Sweden. Here he fought against the invading to Stockholm pietism.

Literary work

Even from a young se Spegel operated as a poet. He wrote many hymns, one of which can still be found in the current nine Swedish hymnal of 1986. In 1685 he published his major work, the epic poem Gudz verk och hvila ( God's work and rest), which recounts the story of creation. Later he supplemented it by the epics Thet öpna Paradis, Thet Thet återvundna and tilslutna Paradis Paradis, take the example of the John Milton. In addition, he published sermons, Bible interpretation, a representation of Swedish history and a dictionary.