Gabriel van Oordt

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Gabriel van Oordt

Gabriel van Oordt (also: Gabriël van Oordt ; born September 24, 1757 in Rotterdam ; † November 16, 1836 ibid) was a Dutch Reformed theologian.

Life

The son of the sugar manufacturer Hendrik van Oordt (born June 4, 1710 in Middelburg; † June 24, 1805 in Rotterdam) and Wilhelmina von Charante (April 27, 1723 in Rotterdam; † October 2, 1802 there) had the grammar school in his hometown visited. Here he had dealt with the classical languages ​​and was particularly encouraged by Gerard Johan Nahuys (1738–1781), who had then gone to Rotterdam as a pastor and was given a professorship in philosophy and morals at the Rotterdam grammar school. On June 15, 1775 he enrolled as a theology student at the University of Leiden . He stayed here for seven years and then continued his studies at the University of Utrecht . In Utrecht he attended lectures at the philosophical faculty with Johann Friedrich Hennert and Johannes Theodorus Rossijn for two years .

His formative theological teacher at that time was Gisbert Bonnet . After he had given a trial sermon on June 1, 1784, he was called to pastor Oegstgeest the following month . On September 16, 1787, he moved to Vlissingen in the same capacity and from April 1789 he worked as such in Haarlem. After he had turned down an appointment as a high school professor in Haarlem and as a pastor in Middelburg, the curators of the Utrecht University appointed him professor of theology on May 22, 1804. For this purpose he received his doctorate in theology from Jodocus Heringa Eliza's zoon on October 4, 1804 and took over the position offered to him on October 11, 1804 with the speech De juvenis animis ad Christianum ministerium formanis, Doctoris Christianiae religionis academici officio cum praecipuo, tum gravissimo ac praestantissimo . In his lectures he dealt with dogmatics , exegesis and symbolism and paid attention to catechetical and homiletic exercises in the training of pastors .

He also took part in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the alma mater in 1809/10 . Oordt had experienced difficult times at the Utrecht University. When this was closed on October 16, 1815, it was achieved that it could reopen its doors on November 6, 1815 and he published a discourse on the occasion. When a new law on higher education was introduced in the Netherlands in 1822, he was no longer able to keep his chair. He had been offered a chair for nature and morality, but his health did not allow him to take on this task. Therefore he gave up his chair, retired in 1823 and withdrew from university teaching into private life. Oordt, from whom no further writings have come down to us, was then still occasionally working for the Dutch Mission Society and the Dutch Bible Society . He spent the last years of his life on his estate in Leuvenum, where he gave religious lessons and helped found a school.

Oordt was married twice. His first marriage was with Henrietta Maria Vosmaer (* 1752, † November 9, 1815 in Utrecht), the widow of Jan Jacob Momma. His second marriage was August 23, 1821 with Anna Geertruijd Jacoba Bosch van Bunschoten (* 1768 - January 10, 1826 in Utrecht), daughter of Matthias Bosch von Bunschoten and Anna Lucia Cramer van Veeren. No children are known from the marriages.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ G. du Rieu: Album studiosorum Academiae Lugduno-Batavae 1575-1875. Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1875, col. 1118
  2. ↑ Utrecht death register
  3. ^ Marriage register
personal data
SURNAME Oordt, Gabriel van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oordt, Gabriël van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch Reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1836
Place of death Rotterdam