Editing Christiern Pedersen (section)

==Education==
Christiern Pedersen was born in [[Elsinore|Helsingør]], [[Denmark]].  He was schooled in [[Roskilde]] and studied from 1496 at the [[University of Greifswald]]. He received a [[bachelor's degree|baccalaureate]] degree in 1498 and from 1505 was a [[canon (priest)|canon]] at [[Lund Cathedral]].

He studied at the [[University of Paris]] from 1508 to 1515, where in 1511 he received a [[Master of Arts|Master of Arts degree]]. During his stay in Paris he developed an interest in writing, translating and publishing. At that time Paris was the undisputed capital of the still-new [[printing press]]. While considering writing a new [[Latin]]-[[Danish language|Danish]] [[lexicon]], he wrote a replacement for the 300-year-old Latin grammar, ''Doctrinale'', written in 1199 by [[Alexander of Villedieu]],<ref>Nauert, Charles Garfield, "Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe" (Cambridge University Press 2006), p.45</ref> and still used as standard in the schools of Denmark at that time.  In 1510 he published his new Latin-Danish lexicon, called ''[[Vocabularium ad usum Dacorum]]''.