IJsbrand van Hamelsveld

Ijsbrand van Hamelsveld

IJsbrand van Hamelsveld (also: Isbrand or Ysbrand van Hamelsveld ; * February 7, 1743 in Utrecht , † May 9, 1812 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch theologian, historian and politician.

Life

The son of the playing card manufacturer Ijsbrand van Hamesveld and his wife Elisabeth Wiggers were supposed to continue his father's factory. However, since he did not feel like doing so, he pursued his desire to devote himself to the sciences. To this end, he attended the Latin school of his hometown from September 2, 1754, which he left in 1758 to study theological sciences at the University of Utrecht . To this end, he initially attended the lectures on older literature, philosophy and all subjects that were necessary to acquire the necessary basic knowledge for the theological subjects. After he wrote on June 1, 1763 the treatise Excercitatio tertia ad Car. Ms. Houbigant Oratorii DJ Sacerdotis Prolegomena in Scripturam Sacram Cap. II, art. II had held and had defended the dissertation philologico-antiquaria de aedibus veterum Hebraeorum under Sebald Rau in 1764, he received his doctorate in philosophy on June 13, 1764.

After that he increasingly attended the theological lectures. Here were Albert Voget , Frans Burman and Gisbert Bonnet his formative teacher. They provided him with the necessary tools, which he obtained as a doctor of theology in 1765 with the theological treatise de moribus antediluvianis typo morum adventum servatoris antecessurorum and was accepted as a candidate for a ministerial office. In the following year on April 23, 1766 he was given a parish office in Durgerdam , where he continued his studies and mainly dealt with church history and the writings of the Old and New Testaments. Here he had married Susanna Flandreau, the widow of the captain in the service of the East India Company Albert Alders, in 1769. In 1770 and 1771 she gave him two children, a son and a daughter, who gave him a lot of joy. At that time he had also started to publish various articles in some journals of his time and some books.

On August 18, 1776, he moved to Grootebroek (now Stede Broec ) as pastor and on November 23, 1777 he went to Goes in the same capacity . In Goes he had conflicts with his colleague Dirk Kaas, which induced him to resign. He gave the reasons for this in his work Berigt aangaande de redenen, die hem bewogen om zyn dimissie as predikant te Goes in Zuid Beveland te vraagen, en deze hem geweigerd zynde zyn ambt intusschen aldaar neer te leggen (Utrecht 1779). He would have liked to have given a farewell sermon here. However, it did not come to that, so that this hard work could later only appear in print. In June 1779 he retired to Utrecht into bourgeois life. During his time in Utrecht he had written several poetic and theological writings. Among other things, he had begun in 1783 to write a multi-volume defense of the Bible.

His theological vacancy came to an end when the curators of the Utrecht University appointed him professor of theology on January 5, 1784, which was connected with a pastor's position in Utrecht. He entered this office on February 26, 1784 with the discussion of the question Statu rei Christianae, hodierno! Laeto an tristi? Quidque in posterum de eo sperare vel timere debeamus? (freely translated: How much Christianity is there still today? Are we happy or sad? What certainty do we have for the future?). In this capacity he also took part in the organizational tasks of the Utrecht University and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1785/86 . His most famous students at the time were the poet Jacobus Bellamy (1757–1786) and the later professor of theology in Leiden Sebald Fulco Johannes Rau .

From 1786, as in other Dutch towns, a patriotic movement had developed in Utrecht, as a result of political conditions, which wanted to bring about upheavals in the Netherlands. These were aimed at weakening the House of Orange Nassau , and those events have gone down in history as a patriotic fraud. Hamelsfeld, who had responded positively to these events, suffered a tolerable fate after the military intervention of Prussian troops. On October 1, 1787, he was forbidden to exercise his teaching and preaching office. In addition, his citizenship was revoked on October 4 of the same year, his portrait was removed from the Senate Chamber, and he had to flee from his native city. After trying unsuccessfully to find a new home in Amsterdam, he went back to Durgerdam, where he made his living as a writer for two years.

In 1789, following his son, he went to the University of Leiden , where he registered himself on March 31st as a student at the university. In Leiden he had published new annotated translations of the New Testament in quick succession, which were intended for unlearned believers, but were also gladly used later by studied theologians. When the new Batavian Republic began in 1795 , he took part in its state government. In 1796 he returned to Utrecht, where the resolutions passed against him in 1787 were repealed. He was again offered the theological professorship, which he refused out of consideration for the incumbent. Then he worked in Amsterdam and found a new sphere of activity in The Hague in 1796 as a member of the National Assembly.

In 1797 he became a member of the second National Assembly and took part in a resolution that incorporated the separation of church and state into the constitution. In the course of the counter-revolution of 1798, he was relieved of his duties on January 22nd. He was imprisoned in the Huis ten Bosch for five months , and after Von Daendel put down the counter-revolution, he retired to Amsterdam after his release. He was accepted by his son and he was active as a writer for several years. He fell ill on April 29, 1812 and finally died after a short period of suffering.

Hamelsfeld had made particular contributions in the field of church historiography in the Netherlands. His work was also fruitful in other theological areas of Bible translation and exegesis. Abroad, his biblical geography, which was also published in German, found recognition.

Works (selection)

• Het Onderzoek, of de Heidelb. Catechism, en deszelfs Opstellers, in het gevoelen v. eene Algemeene Genoegdoening v. 's Werelds Heiland zijn, enz. Amsterdam 1767
• Hanna's song, 1 Sam. II vs. 1-10, in zes empty red. en Schetse, over Pred. VII: 13. Utrecht 1773
• Vaticinium Jerem. XXX, 31 - 40 illustravit. Utrecht 1780 ( online )
• De Bijbel verdedigd Amsterdam 1783, 8th vol. (8 dln.,)
• De voortreffelijkheid. nuttigheid en noodzakelijkheid van de divorced of the OT betoogd in a redevoering over 1 Cor. X: 11. Utrecht 1783
• Aardrijksk. of the Bijbels. Amsterdam 1790-96, 6th vol.
• Het Oude en Nieuwe Testament en de Apocryfe Boeken met aanm. Amsterdam 1791, 16th vol.
• De welmeenende raadgever. Amsterdam 1791, 5th vol.
• De zedelijke toestand der Nederl. natie op het an the XVIIIe eeuw. Amsterdam 1791 ( online )
• Letter from some bijzonderheden by B. Meulman. Amsterdam 1791
• De Vraagal Leiden and Amsterdam 1791–96, 6th vol.
• Nodig report aan het publiek nopens de handelingen van P. van Hemert omtrent hem. Amsterdam 1793
• De Ongeveinsde Christians. Amsterdam 1797, 1st vol., ( Online ); 1798, 2nd Vol., ( Online ); 1799, 3rd Vol., ( Online ); 1800, 4th vol. ( Online ); 1801, 5th Vol. ( Online ); 1802, 6th Vol. ( Online ); 1803, 7th vol., ( Online ); 1855, 8th Vol. ( Online );
• Bijbelgeschiedenis Amsterdam 1797, 2nd vol.
• Algem. kerkelijke divorce. of the Christians, verified by A. Ypey. Haarlem 1799-1817, 26th vol .; 1799, Volume 1, ( online ); 1800, 2nd Vol., ( Online , Online ); 1800, 3rd Vol., ( Online ); 1801, 4th vol., ( Online ); 1802, 5th Vol., ( Online , Online ); 1803, 6th vol., ( Online ); 1803, 7th vol., ( Online , online , online ); 1804, 8th Vol., ( Online , Online )); 1804, 9th Vol., ( Online ); 1805, 10th Vol., ( Online ); 1805, 11th Vol., ( Online , ( Online )); 1806, Vol. 12, ( online ); 1806, Volume 13, ( Online , Online , Online ); 1807, Vol. 14, ( online ); 1807, Vol. 15, ( online ); 1808, 16th Vol., ( Online , Online ); 1808, 17th volume; ( Online , online ); 1809, Volume 18, ( Online , Online ); 1809, Volume 19, ( online ); 1810, 20th Vol., ( Online ); 1811, Vol. 21, ( Online ; 1813, Vol. 23, ( Online ); 1814, Vol. 24, ( Online , Online ); 1816, Vol. 25, ( Online , Online , Online ); 1817 26th Vol., ( Online );
• De gesch. Van Abraham voor kinderen. Amsterdam 1804
• De gesch. Van Jakob voor kinderen. Amsterdam 1805
• De bijbel uit het Hebr. en het Gr. Amsterdam 1805
• Rome. divorced, van M. Stuart shortened. Amsterdam 1806, 4th vol.
• Business the joden sedert de verwoesting van stad en tempel tot the tegenwoordigen tijd. Amsterdam 1807 ( online )
• Historically Handboekje van de Bijbel. Amsterdam 1830 (4th ed., ( Online ))

literature

• J. Bosma: HAMELSVELD, YSBRAND VAN In: J. van den Berg: Biographical lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme. Verlag UitGeversmaatschappij JH Kok, Kampen, 1978, ISBN 9024220912 , 1. Vol., P. 178 (Dutch)
• Jan Pieter de Bie, Jakob Loosjes: Biographical woordenboek van protestantsche godgeleerden in Nederland. Martinus Nijhoff, 's-Gravenhage 1919–1931, Vol. 3., p. 480 ( Online , Dutch)
• JG Frederiks, F. Jos. van den Branden: Biographical woordenboek of Noord- en Zuidnederlandsche letterkunde. LJ Veen, Amsterdam, 1888–1891 ( Online , Dutch)
• Knipscheer: HAMELSVELD (IJsbrand van) . In: Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen , Petrus Johannes Blok : Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . (NNBW), AW Sijthoff's Uitgevers-Maatschappij publishing house, Leiden, 1911, vol. 6, col. 693 (Dutch)
• Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1867, vol. 8, part 1, p. 140 ( online , Dutch)
• Barend Glasius: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederlandsche Godgeleerden. Muller Brothers, 's-Hertogenbosch, 1858, Vol. 2, p. 11 ( Online , Dutch)
• CG Ludolph Zimmermann: Isbrand van Hamelsfeld, a biographical sketch. In: Carl Friedrich Stäudlin, Heinrich Gottlieb Tzschirner: Archive for old and new church history. Verlag Friedrich Christian Wilhelm Vogel, Leipzig, 1814, p. 188 ( online )
• Ed / Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch , Leipzig, 1828, 2nd section, 2nd part, p. 10 ( online )
• Heinrich August Pierer : Pierer's Universal Lexicon of the past and present or the newest encyclopedic dictionary of the sciences, arts and trades. HA Pierer, Altenburg, 1859, (4th ed.), P. 907 ( online );

Web links

• Ysbrand van Hamelsveld at the DBNL
• Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae

Remarks

1. ↑ his son Wilhelm Ijsbrand († February 12, 1855 as councilor at the court in The Hague)