attitudes. Though our knowledge of the life and personality of Helgesen is only fragmentary he still appears a rather living figure due to his outspoken personal engagement and his temperamental language that shows a man at the borderline of two epochs. He is the most outstanding Danish representative of late Catholic intellectual humanism. References Dansk Biografisk Leksikon, vol. 6, 1980 Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon, vol. IX, 1921 Catholic Encyclopedia External links 1480s births 16th-century deaths Danish Roman Catholics 16th-century Danish historians Carmelites