Peter Paulson Paus
Dominus (title), Sir Peter Paulson Paus (1590 in Oslo – 21 July 1653, in Kviteseid), also rendered as Peder Povelsson Paus, was a Norwegian high-ranking cleric who served as the Provost (religion)#Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, provost of Upper Telemark from 1633 until his death. He is known through a loving poem in Latin written by his son Paul Peterson Paus in his memory in 1653, ''In memoriam Domini Petri Pavli'' ("In Memory of Dominus (title), Sir Peter Paulson"). His descendants include the playwright Henrik Ibsen. Life and work He grew up in Oslo together with his brother, fellow priest Sir Hans Paus (b. 1587); the brothers have long been known as the earliest certain ancestors of the family Paus. The fact that both brothers received the best and most costly education available in Denmark-Norway and their apparent social connections to powerful men in Oslo/Eastern Norway – both easily received attractive positions; the education of Peter's nephew was paid for by Ch ...
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Dominus (title)
''Dominus'' is the Latin word for master or owner. saw use as a Roman imperial title. It was also the Latin title of the feudal, superior and mesne, lords, and an ecclesiastical and academic title. The ecclesiastical title was rendered through the French in English as '' sir'', making it a common prefix for parsons before the Reformation, as in Sir Hugh Evans in Shakespeare's '' Merry Wives of Windsor''. Its shortened form '' Dom'' remains used as a prefix of honor for ecclesiastics of the Catholic Church, and especially for members of the Benedictine and other religious orders. The title was formerly also used as is, , for a Bachelor of Arts. Many romance languages use some form of the honorific '' Don'', which derives from this term. Further, the Romanian word for God, , derives from this title through the Latin phrase Etymology The term derives from the Proto-Italic meaning " eof the house," ultimately relating to the Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to buil ...
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