Anton van Dale

Anton van Dale (Anthonie, Antonius) ( November 8, 1638 in Haarlem - November 28, 1708 in Haarlem) was a Dutch Mennonite preacher, doctor and author of religious texts.

The contemporary theologian Jean Leclerc described him as an enemy of everything supernatural . He was also a critic of the witch hunt . In his writings he mainly dealt critically with Christian interpretations of pagan oracles . His work, which was later received and popularized by the French enlightener Fontenelle , marks an important intermediate stage in the process of secularization of the West .

Works

• De oraculis veterum ethnicorum dissertationes (1683)
• Dissertationes de origine ac progressu Idolatriae et Superstitionum, de vera ac falsa Prophetia, uti et de Divinationibus Idolatricis Judaeorum (1696)
• Commentatio super Aristeam de LXX interpretibus (1705)
• Dissertation super Aristea de LXX interpretibus (1705)

Remarks

1. ↑ Jonathan Israel : The Dutch Republic. 1995, p. 925.
2. ↑ Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Hilary Marland, Hans de Waardt, Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe (1997), p. 74.
3. ↑ Ralph Häfner: Gods in Exile. Early modern understanding of poetry in the field of tension between Christian apologetics and philological criticism (approx. 1590–1736). (= Early modern times. Volume 80). Tübingen 2003, p. 393 ff.

literature

• Ralph Häfner: Gods in Exile. Early modern understanding of poetry in the field of tension between Christian apologetics and philological criticism (approx. 1590–1736). (= Early modern times. Volume 80). Tübingen 2003, p. 393 ff.
• Jonathan Irvine Israel: ch. 20 Fontanelle and the War of the Oracles . In: Radical enlightenment: philosophy and the making of modernity: 1650-1750 . Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 2001, ISBN 0-19-820608-9 , pp. 359-374.