Protestantism in Sweden and Denmark - James Aitken Wylie

as if Malmoe rejoiced because "salvation was come
to it." Mass was abolished; and in 1529 the
Protestant religion was almost universally
professed by the inhabitants. By the king's
direction a theological college was erected in
Malmoe; Frederick I. contributed liberally to its
endowment, and moreover enacted by edict that the
manors and other possessions given aforetime to
the Romish superstition should, after the poor had
been provided for, be made over for the
maintenance of the Protestant Gymnasium.[9]
This seminary powerfully contributed to diffuse
the light; it supplied the Danish Church with many
able teachers. Its chairs were filled by men of
accomplishment and eminence. Among its
professors, then styled readers, were Nicolaus
Martin, the first to carry the "good tidings" of a
free salvation to Malmoe; Andreas, who had been a
monk; Wornlord, who had also worn the cowl, but
who had exchanged the doleful canticles of the
monastery for the odes of the Hebrew king, which
he was the first by his translation to teach his
adopted countrymen to sing. Besides those just
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