Antonius Walaeus

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Antonius Walaeus

Antonius Walaeus (born October 3, 1573 in Gent , † July 3, 1639 in Leiden ) was a Calvinist , Reformed theologian and professor at the University of Leiden .

Life

His father Jacques de Waele had moved from Brussels to Ghent after the execution of the Count of Egmond , married Margaretha Wagenaers there and found a job with the Treasury. In 1583, as a supporter of the Prince of Orange, he was thrown into prison by the Flemish Calvinist Jan van Hembyze and was released again through the mediation of Walheen . In 1585, after Ghent had surrendered to the Duke of Parma, the family emigrated to Middelburg in Zeeland .

Since 1581 Antonius received Latin lessons from his uncle, the Reformed preacher Titius from Edingen, and later entered the service of a Middelburg notary. In 1588, however, he turned to theology.

In 1602 he took up the office of preacher in the nearby village of Koudekerke and married Paschuntze van Isenhoudt. Three years later he was called to Middelburg as a preacher. He was also employed as a professor at the university and attended the national synod as such.

In 1617 he was a brief preacher in Hague and in 1619 he had to console Johan van Oldenbarnevelt .

After the General Synod was over and the non-Reformed were removed from the Leiden University, Walaeus was appointed professor of theology there in July 1619 . Together with his colleagues, he defended the university's independence from the Provincial Synod.

Until 1625 he created a new program for the Latin schools and worked on the translation of the Bible for the New Testament and the Apocrypha along with their revision with Festus Hemmius and Jacobus Rolandus. In addition, he headed a preachers' seminary for ten years, which the East India Company had set up in Leiden in 1622 in preparation for service to the Indian congregations. He was one of the six theologians who worked on the translation of the Bible ( Statenbijbel ), completed in 1637, on behalf of the Dordrecht Synod and the States General . Walaeus had also taken part in the organizational tasks of the Leiden University and was elected rector of the Alma Mater in 1625, 1626 and 1639 . However, he died in his last term of office.

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  1. ↑ http://www.bridica.com/EBchecked/topic/260746/Jan-van-Hembyze
  2. ^ Jacob Cornelis van Slee:  Rolandus, Jacob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 72.
  3. ^ Marus Galm, The Awakening of Missionary Thought in the Netherlands, Munich, 1915, chap. 4th
personal data
SURNAME Walaeus, Antonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Calvinist, Reformed theologian and professor at Leiden University
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1573
PLACE OF BIRTH Ghent
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1639
Place of death Suffer