Jacob Peter Mynster

Who was Jacob Peter Mynster?

Jacob Peter Mynster was a Danish theologian and Bishop of Zealand, Denmark from 1834 until his death.

His father Christian Gudzon Peter Mynster who was a Chamber Councillor and inspector at Frederiks Hospital, died in 1777. His mother, Frederica Christiane Nicoline died in 1779. Mynster and his three years older brother Ole Hieronymus Mynster were then brought up by a stepfather.

Mynster received his theology candidate in 1794. He was tutor to the Adam Wilhelm Moltke. Between 1811 and 1828 he was a chaplain at Our Lady Church in Copenhagen. He was a lecturer in psychology at the Theological Seminary, in 1812 and later co-director. In 1814 he elaborated the basis for the version of Luther's Small Catechism, which authorization was for use in schools. The same year he helped to create the Bible Society, whose board he joined in 1815. He was also a member of the commission for revision of the New Testament and 1817 also Member of the University of Copenhagen and learned schools. In 1828 became the Royal Chaplain. Mynster described by several church historians as a "power factor" already from the mid-1820s.