Peder Hansen Resen

Peder Hansen Resen (June 17, 1625 – June 1, 1688) was the Danish historian, legal scholar and the president's residence in the city. He was the son of Bishop Hans Hansen Resen.

After being carefully prepared by private teachers, he was in 1641 placed in Our Lady's School (Vor Frue Skole), where he in 1643 passed to the university. In 1645 he took theological attestats (teologisk attestats) and had since a year hear at Our Lady School until he was in May 1647 accompanied by Rasmus Bartholin went on a trip abroad, who first went to The Netherlands where Resen did a four-year stay in Leiden, and lay down after philology and jurisprudence. Here he met in 1651 with his three brothers, of which Elias was drowned on an excursion to Amsterdam. Soon after Resen traveled to France and spent several months in Paris, where he is in concert with a master's Laurids Boarding industrious visited as well as learned men bookshops and libraries. From here he went to Orleans and now trains with Corfits Trolle and his steward Conrad Hesse on one not without danger travel through France and Spain, and only the fear of being intercepted by the "Turks" discouraged them from putting across from Gibraltar to Africa. Back road went through southern France to Genoa, where Resen 1652 parted from his traveling companions to go to Padua, where he studied jurisprudence about a year and won great prestige among the students who chose him to Consiliarius nationis germanica jurisconsultorum and university vicesyndikus; as such He had an audience with Dogen and the council of Venice, acquired a hitherto missing privilege of the university and could, if he had wished, have achieved Order of St. Marcus. His portrait was stuck in copper per annum, the German jurists, expense, and his name and arms placed on a stone wall in the university. A planned trip to the Orient he gave at the direction of his father's illness and contented himself with a trip to Rome and Naples. On the way back he was in Rome announced on his father's death, and in Florence reached the word about his mother's decease him. Of Padua, where he contended that his academic honors and received the Doctor of Laws in September 1653 he guided his path of Trento, Augsburg, Regensburg, through Saxony, Brunswick and Lüneburg to Hamburg and finally to Lübeck to Copenhagen, where he arrived in November 1653 .

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