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4 unusual facts about Niels Simonsen Glostrup


Karen Andersdatter

When Karen met the King of Denmark for the first time, she was said to have been already engaged to a pastor named Niels Simonsen Glostrup.

Niels Simonsen Glostrup

Niels Glostrup was born in a small town named Glostrup near Copenhagen, where his father, Simon Jensen, was a priest.

In 1612 he took his Master's Degree in Copenhagen and, in the same year, became a parish pastor in Køge, Denmark.

At the University of Copenhagen, he appears in 1604 as a student and in 1608 as a responder in a disputation, which was held by Professor Hans Jensen Alanus at the University.



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