Antonius Thysius the Elder

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Antonius Thysius the Elder

Antonius Thysius the Elder (also: Thys, Thijs, Thisius ; born August 9, 1565 in Antwerp , † November 7, 1640 in Leiden ) was a Reformed theologian.

Life

The son of the jewelery merchant Christoffel Thijs and his wife Martha Gilles had attended schools in Lier, Dendermonde and finally in Antwerp, with Bonaventura Vulcanius . He followed this in 1581 to the University of Leiden , where he studied literature, the other basic philosophical sciences with Justus Lipsius , Rudolph Snellius , Johannes Drusius (1550-1616) and theology under Lambertus Daneau (1530-1595). In 1582 he began a study trip that took him to Neustadt, Frankenthal and the University of Geneva , where he was a student of Théodore de Bèze , Isaac Casaubon and Antoine de La Faye (1540-1615). He then continued his studies at universities in Lausanne , Bern , Zurich , Basel , Strasbourg and Heidelberg . In the latter place he spent four years in the Domus Sapientiae, where he was a fellow student of Franciscus Gomarus .

1589 he moved to the University of Oxford , the University of Cambridge and returned to Leiden on 12 August 1590th Here he was briefly called to ministerial service in Harlem. In 1591 the death of his father forced him to travel to Frankfurt am Main. When he arrived in Germany, he visited the cities of Danzig , Rostock and Stade for further training . In Stade he met a sister of his father who supported him as an assistant preacher. For some time he lived in Emden , where he also worked as an assistant preacher. A year and a half later he visited Amsterdam in the winter of 1595/96, where he was offered a pastorate. He turned down this and another appointment to Dortrecht because he wanted to study more. For this purpose he went to France, where he took part in theological disputations at the universities of that time in Saumur , Toulouse and Montpellier . In 1600 he returned to Leiden, where he received the first theological professorship at the Illustre Gymnasium in Harderwijk on August 16, 1601 with the support of Gomarus . He worked here for 18 years.

When the theological dispute broke out between Gomarus and Jacobus Arminius , he became an opponent of Arminius. He was a member of the Dordrecht Synod and worked on an alternative translation of the Old Testament. After he had also written some writings, the curators of the University of Leiden appointed him full professor of theology on August 31, 1619, he was made an honorary doctor of theology and he took up the position entrusted to him on December 10 of the same year with the speech Oratio de theologia ejusque studio capessendi (Leiden 1620). In his capacity as a university lecturer in Leiden, he also took part in the organizational tasks of the educational institution and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1633/34 . Although Thysius was involved in the theological controversies of the Calvinist faith of his time, he was considered a calm and balanced theologian.

From his marriage to Johanna de Raadt († 1639) in Amsterdam in 1602, comes the later professor of rhetoric and librarian Antonius Thysius the Younger (1603–1665) and the son Francois Thysius who worked as a lawyer in Leiden.

Works

  • Anglicana scripta de Praedestinatione, duobus libris, simul edita from AT Amsterdam 1613
  • Empty ends or the Nederlandsche soo Duytsche en Waalsche Gereformeerden kercken in een ligchaem vervat. Amsterdam 1615
  • Vertalinghe van sekere Iximbethaense artyckelen. eertijds painted in Engelanti, ending now onlanghs in Latijn uytghegheven. 1616
  • Belijdenisse der Gereformeerde Nederlandsche kercke, na de copye Antonii Thysii, uytghegeven door P. Colonius. Ziriczee, 1617
  • Responsio in Remonstrantiam. 1617
  • Paraenesis, seu Oratio de sacrâ Theologiâ, ejusque studio capessendo, from AT in Leydensi Universitate habitâ. Cal. Decembris. M. DCXIX. Leiden 1620 (inaug.)
  • Synopsis purioris theologiae. Leiden 1625 (with Johannes Polyander v. K.)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ * 1522 in Mechelen, son of Nicolaes Thijs, † June 7, 1591 in Frankfurt am Main (cf. Oscar Gelderblom: Zuid-Nederlandse koopliedern en de opkomst van de Amsterdamse stapelmarkt (1578–1630). Uitgeverij Verloren, Hilversum, 2000, ISBN 90-6550-620-9 , p. 40 ff.)
personal data
SURNAME Thysius the Elder, Antonius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anton Thys; Thijs; Thisius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch Reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1565
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1640
Place of death Suffer