Background
Jesper Rasmussen Brochmand was born at Køge, Zealand. In 1617 he was appointed tutor to Crown Prince Christian, eldest son of King Christian IV, returning to the university three years later.
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Jesper Rasmussen Brochmand was born at Køge, Zealand. In 1617 he was appointed tutor to Crown Prince Christian, eldest son of King Christian IV, returning to the university three years later.
He attended Herlufsholm Academy in Copenhagen, followed by training as a theological student in the Netherlands at Leiden University and the University of Franeker.
He returned to Copenhagen in 1608 to serve as Rector of Herlufsholm Academy. He was ordained Bishop of Zealand (Bisperække for Sjællands stift) in 1639. Brochmand made the controversy with Rome a subject of his public lectures.
Against this pamphlet Brochmand delivered a series of lectures which, after his death, were collected and published under the title Apologiæ, speculi veritatis confutatio (1653).
He wrote several devotional works, of which his Sabbati sanctificatio was for more than two centuries a favorite collection of sermons with the Danish people. Dahl, Gina (2010) Book Collections of Clerics in Norway, 1650–1750 (Brill Academic Public)
Kolb, Robert (2008) Lutheran Ecclesiastical Culture, 1550-1675 (Brill Academic Public)
Garstein, Oskar (1992) Rome and the Counter-Reformation in Scandinavia (Brill Academic Public)
Grell, Ole Peter (1995) The Scandinavian Reformation.
From evangelical movement to institutionalization of reform (Cambridge University Press).
In 1610, he became a Professor Pædagogicus at University of Copenhagen, professor of Greek in 1613 and a member of the theological faculty in 1615.