Broërius Broes

Silhouette of Broërius Broes

Broërius Broes also: Brouërius Broes (* August 1757 in Velp near Arnhem ; † February 24, 1799 in Leiden ) was a Dutch Reformed theologian.

Life

The son of pastor Petrus Broes (1726–1797) and his wife Johanna Brouwer had the first name of his grandfather, the pastor in Amsterdam Dr. Broërius Brouwer, received at his baptism on August 28, 1757. He received his education at the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam and the University of Leiden . Especially Petrus Curtenius (1716–1789) and Hermannus Scholten were his formative teachers during this phase. On June 7th, 1779 he was a candidate for the ministry in Amsterdam and on June 17th in the same year he was called to Vuren and Dalem as pastor . Thereupon he passed his theological exam on August 4th of that year and on the 29th of the same month took up the pastoral office assigned to him with a sermon on Paul's second letter to Timothy, chapter 2, verses 1-7. As the successor to Jona Willem te Water , he was appointed pastor in Vlissingen on April 2, 1780 .

After he had given his farewell sermon to Vuren on July 2 of that year, he took over the new pastoral office in Vlissingen on July 23, 1780 with a sermon on Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, chapter 2, verse 2. The new congregation took him as a pastor with a large influx. He felt very much at home in Vlissingen, because in January 1782 he refused an appointment as a high school professor at the Illustrious School in Deventer. But when he received an appointment as professor of theology from the curators of the University of Leiden on February 21, 1784, he could not refuse the offer and gave his farewell sermon in Vlissingen on the book of Kohelet of King Solomon, Chapter 12. Verses 13-14. After he had received an honorary doctorate in theology from the university's senate on June 8, 1784, he took over the office assigned to him on June 14 of that year with the speech de Literarum Sacrarum studio, praecipue Theologi munere .

In Leiden he also took part in the organizational tasks of the university. After he was relieved of the task of managing the university in 1788 because of his patriotic liberal convictions, he was finally rector of the alma mater in 1792/93 . At the resignation of the office he spoke the unprinted speech de praecipuis orationibus Jesu virtutibus . Broes, who had also been in contact with Jacobus Bellamy , made a name for himself as a poet of Dutch and Latin verse. He was a member of the poet society in The Hague (1773 candidate, 1774 extraordinary member, 1785 honorary member) and on September 4, 1784 he became a member of the Zeeland Society of Sciences in Vlissingen (Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen te Vlissingen). On January 5, 1799, the curators had given him the professorship of the interpretation of the New Testament, but he died the following month.

Works

• Institutiones theologicae theoreticae, tam elencticae, quam theticae. 1788.
• Void speeches, over Ps. XV: 4. Leiden 1791.
• Nader berigt aan de Hervormde kerk van Nederland, hatching nadere Verklaaringen van eenige uitdrukkingen voor het 1st stukje of the Catech. Leerredenen van Professor Curtenius, sent dead a voorrede voor het 2de stukje. Hierbij is gevoegd de Voorrede van het 1ste stukje en de Bekendmaking in de Boekzaal van October 1790. Amsterdam 1791.
• Eerbied voor godsvrucht. Philip. I: 12-14. Leiden 1795.
• Over tied Paul. Philip. I: 20. Leiden 1795.
• Letter to mijne landgenooten who behooren other christelijke genootschappen dead. 1796.
• Paulus de Rechtsschapen bezorger van Christus eer. Jehovah's welgevallen aan the way of therechtvaardige. Void over Ps. 1: 6a. Leiden 1797.
• A note about the Evangelie van Mattheus. Leiden 1798, 11th parts.

Editing

• Empty speeches about Heidelberg's catechism. van Petrus Curtenius. 1790 ( earlydutchbooksonline.nl ).

literature

• E. Zuidema: Broes (Brouërius) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 4. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 313–314 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1918, reprinted unchanged).
• BROES (Brouerius). In: Hugo Visscher, Lambregt Abraham van Langeraad: Biographical woordenboek van protestantsche godgeleerden in Nederland. Kemink & Zoon, Utrecht 1907, Volume 1, p. 633, ( dbnl.org ).
• Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1855, volume 2, part 2, p. 1384, ( historici.nl , Dutch).
• Barend Glasius: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederlandsche Godgeleerden. Muller Brothers, 's-Hertogenbosch 1851, Volume 1, p. 187, ( historici.nl , Dutch).

Web links

• BROES Brouërius Broes at the Digital Library of the Netherlands (DBNL)