Carolus Boers

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Carolus Boers

Carolus Boers also: Carel Boers (born June 6, 1746 in Voorschoten , † May 20, 1814 in Leiden ) was a Dutch Reformed theologian.

Life

Carolus Boers came as the son of Adrianus Boers (born September 3, 1711 in Katwijk -1746) and his wife Sara Dorothea Musketeer (1725-1746) a respected middle-class family. He had received his first training in Breda , Dordrecht and Delft , where the philologist Henricus Hoogeveen (1712–1791) was his teacher. In 1766 he enrolled in the matriculation of the University of Utrecht and spent a year at the University of Groningen , where he had matriculated on September 10, 1766. Here, especially Nikolaus Wilhelm Schröder , Dionysius van de Wijnpersse , Paulus Chevallier and Michael Bertling (1710–1772) had a formative influence on his education with their lectures. When he returned to Utrecht he attended the lectures by Petrus Wesseling , Sebald Rau and Christoph Saxe . In Utrecht he was accepted as a theology candidate on October 23, 1768 and received his doctorate in theology from E. Harwood on December 8, 1768 under Gisbert Matthias Elsner on the subject of Exhibens specimen observationum ad nuperam NT versionem Brittannicam .

On December 21, 1768 he was called as pastor Roosendaal , where he took up his position on January 15, 1769 with a sermon on Matth. 28: 18-20 and served until December 16, 1770. On September 30, 1770 he took over a pastor's office in Waddingsveen and Bloemendaal, which he held until February 19, 1775. After he had received an appointment as pastor in Muiden on November 27, 1774 , he took up this position on March 12, 1775 and stayed here until April 14, 1776. On February 5, 1776 he was appointed pastor to Amersfoort received, which office he took on April 28, 1776 with the inaugural sermon Isa. 1: 7 took over. He did not last long in Amersfoort either, because on November 9, 1777 he had given his farewell sermon here on Hand 18:11, after he had received a call as pastor in Haarlem on August 29, 1777 . In Haarlem he began his pastoral service on November 23, 1777 and worked here for a year and a half until May 16, 1779.

On February 8, 1779, he had received a call from the curators of the University of Leiden as professor of theology, which he took up on June 21, 1779 with the inaugural speech de difficultatibus, quae disciplinae theologicae professionem premunt, et de potissimis quae illarum mitigationi inserviant, levamentis took over. On September 20, 1779, as regent of the Statencolleg, he took over the management of the theological seminary at the Leiden University. As a university lecturer in Leiden, he also took part in the university's organizational tasks and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1784/85 . He resigned this office with the speech de religione praeclaro sanitatis praesidio . For political reasons, because he had sided with the supporters of the inheritance holder of Orange in the clashes of the Batavian Republic , he, like his counterparts Adrian Kluit and Friedrich Wilhelm Pestel , was dismissed as professor on February 21, 1795. March 1795 he was removed from the leadership of the Staten College. When the political situation had changed, his professorship was restored on February 6, 1802 and he was again regent of the Staten College.

Boers was married twice.

His first marriage was in 1769 with Lucia (* 1743 in Amsterdam-1801 in Leiden), daughter of the Amsterdam citizen Hermann Ameshoff (* 1660 in Gildenhaus (Bentheim); † 1719 in Amsterdam). The marriage resulted in three sons and three daughters. Two sons and a daughter died young. The youngest daughter, unknown name, died in Delft in 1812 at the age of about 30. The eldest son Adrianus Theodorus Johannes Boers (* 1777 in Amersfoort; † 1799 in Amsterdam) received his doctorate in law and the daughter Philippa Johanna Petronella Boers (* March 4, 1780 in Leiden; † November 19, 1825 in Delft) married on March 15, 1803 in Amsterdam Dr. theol. Johannes Jacobus Metelerkamp (born December 31, 1777 in Gouda, † January 16, 1839 in Utrecht).

His second marriage was in 1803 with Petronella Louise Brugmans, daughter of the Groningen professor Antonius Brugmans . The marriage remained childless.

Works

  • E. Harwood's A new Introduction to the study and knowledge of the NT 1767.
  • A liberal translation of the NT with select notes. 1768.
  • Oratio de difficultatibus quae disciplinae theologicae professionem premunt et de potissimis, quae illarum mitigationi inserviant, levamentis. Leiden 1779.
  • G. West. De geschiedenis en de bewijzen voor de sekerheid van de opstanding van Jezus Christus uit de dooden, as de own steun en vaste hoop of Christens, in a nieuw light gesteld. Utrecht 1772.
  • Kort onderwijs in de godsdienst- en zedeleer in verse with four rules, tot gebruik voor eenvoudigen opgesteld.
  • Void over de woorden van Joshua 24: 15b. 1774.
  • Verklaring overde gelijkenis van den lost zoon. Utrecht 1777.
  • Oratio de religione praeclaro sanitatis praesidio. Leiden 1784.
  • Three empty words over Jacobs droom en worsteling. Leiden 1797.
  • Idle speeches about Heb. XII: 25-29. Leiden 1798. 3rd volumes.
  • Handboek voor jonge predikanten. Leiden 1807, 1866.

literature

  • BOERS (Carolus). In: Lambregt Abraham van Langeraad, Hugo Visscher: Biographisch woordenboek van protestantsche godgeleerden in Nederland. Kemink & Zoon, Utrecht, 1907, Volume 1, pp. 464-465, ( dbnl.org ).
  • HE Knappert: Boers (Carolus) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 1. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 381–382 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1911, reprinted unchanged).
  • Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem 1854, volume 2, part 1, p. 737, ( historici.nl and dbnl.org , Dutch)
  • Barend Glasius: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederlandsche Godgeleerden. Muller Brothers, 's-Hertogenbosch, 1851, Volume 1, p. 121, ( historici.nl , Dutch)
  • Levens report by Carolus Boers. In: Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde. 1814 ( dbnl.org ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maandelyke uittreksels, of Boekzaal the empty Waerelt. Dirk onder de Leiden en Zoon, Amsterdam, 1769, part 109, p. 92 f., ( Books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ Abraham Rutgers: Het tweede eeuwgetyde van Amersfoorts herrorming plechtig gevierd in an empty speech about Deuter. VI: 20-25. Abraham van Paddenburg, Utrecht, p. 79 ( books.google.de ).


personal data
SURNAME Boers, Carolus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boers, Carel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch Reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH Voorschoten
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1814
Place of death Suffer