Clausen, Hendrik Georg

Clausen, Hendrik Georg, a celebrated Danish preacher, was born at Sleswick in 1759. After having: been a. country curate for several years, he was appointed, in 1797, pastor at the church of Notre Dame at Copenhagen, and for nearly half a century delivered eloquent but rationalistic sermons, of which many have been published in two collections, entitled, Praedikenie (1795 and 1807). He died in 1840. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale. s.v.