ABSTRACT
The nobleman Holger Rosenkrantz, who acquired the epithet ‘the Learned’, proved a hugely influential figure in early-seventeenth-century Denmark. His status was not only recognised within Denmark, but he had a considerable European reputation. When the Scottish minister John Dury, a prominent member of the circle around Samuel Hartlib and Amos Comenius, travelled across Europe in the 1630s seeking to unify Protestantism, he particularly wanted to seek out Holger Rosenkrantz, because he considered him to be the most learned and pious man in the whole of Germany.1
