Carolus de Maets

Carolus de Maets

Carolus de Maets (also: Dematius ; * February 25, 1597 in Leiden ; † April 20, 1651 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch Reformed theologian.

Life

Maet's parents had fled Flanders to Holland as remonstrants because of their beliefs . His father became a church servant and schoolmaster in Middelburg , where Carolus attended school. From 1615 he completed his initial philosophical studies at the University of Franeker , where he attended the lectures of Sixtinus Amama , Sibrandus Lubbertus (1555-1625) and Johannes Maccovius . He decided to pursue a theological education.

He then continued his studies at the Sedan Academy with Andrew Melville (1545-1622), Jacques Cappel (1570-1624) and Daniel Tilenus (1563-1633). After returning to the Netherlands, he became a preacher in Scherpenisse in Zealand in 1620 and a preacher in Middelburg in 1629. In Middelburg he edited the New Testament and the Apocrypha of the first official Bible in the Dutch language. In 1636 he was appointed professor of theology at Utrecht University and preacher in Utrecht.

However, since the representatives of the city of Middelburg persuaded him to stay, he did not accept the appointment until 1639 and took on the theological professorship of exegesis and the New Testament on June 2, 1640 with the speech De ecclesiae Die aedificatione serio promovenda . Shortly thereafter, he was by Gisbert Voetius to the June 3, 1640 doctorate in theology doctorate . In Utrecht, Maets made a name for himself alongside Voetius and Meinardus Schotanus (1593–1644) as an orthodox representative of the nearer Reformation . He also took part in the organizational tasks of the Utrecht University and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1647/48 .

Works

• Disputationes XIV de voto Jepthae. Utrecht 1649
• Sylva Quaestionum insignium. Utrecht 1650
• Dissertation de Christo Servatore versus Socinianos.
• De persona et officiis Christi.
• De Melchisedecho disputationes quatuordecim.
• De sepultura mortuorum disputationes tres. Utrecht 1651

literature

• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present day, and made themselves known to the learned world, After their birth, life, remarkable stories, Withdrawals and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch , Leipzig, 1751, Volume 3, Sp. 25
• Maets, Carl von. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 19, Leipzig 1739, column 184.
• Jacob Cornelis van Slee :  Maets, Karl van . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 48 f.
• Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1869, Volume 12, Part 1, pp. 64–66 ( online , Dutch)
• Knipscheer: MAETS (Carolus de). In: Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen , Petrus Johannes Blok : Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . (NNBW), Verlag AW Sijthoff's Uitgevers-Maatschappij, Leiden 1930, Volume 8, pp. 1094-1096 ( online , Dutch)
• Barend Glasius: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederlandsche Godgeleerden. Verlag Gebr. Muller, s' Hertogenbosch 1853, Volume 2, pp. 425-426 ( online , Dutch)
• GP van Itterzon: Maets (Dematius) Carolus de. In: Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme. Uitgeveru Kok, Kampen 1983, Volume 2, pp. 314-315 ( online , Dutch)

Web link

• Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno_Traiectinae