Protestantism in Sweden and Denmark - James Aitken Wylie

he loathed more and more the husks given him for
food, and wished to exchange them for that bread
by which alone he felt he could live. He set out for
Witternberg; he beheld the face of the man through
whom God had spoken to his heart when
wandering in the wilderness of Scholasticism, and
if the page of Luther had touched him, how much
more his living voice!
Whether the young student's sojourn here was
known in his native country we have no means of
discovering; but in the summer of 1521, and about
the time that Luther would be setting out for the
Diet of Worms, we find Taussan returning to
Denmark. His profiting at Wittemberg was very
sufficiently attested by a most flattering mark of
distinction which was bestowed on him on his way
home. The University of Rostock conferred upon
him the degree of Doctor in Theology, an honor
which doubtless he valued chiefly because it
admitted him to the privilege of teaching to others
what himself had learned with joy of heart at the
feet of the Reformers.[11]
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