Wilhelm Baudaert

Wilhelm Baudartius around 1630

Willem Baudaert or Latinized Baudartius (born February 13, 1565 in Deinze , Flanders ; † December 15, 1640 in Zutphen , Gelderland province ) was a Dutch theologian .

Life

Baudaert was born in Deinze in Flanders to the Protestant parents Willem Baudaert and Maria Zach-Mortel . After the Catholic Duke of Alba invaded the Netherlands, they were expelled because of their religious affiliation and fled to Sandwich in England . He studied in Canterbury and returned to Deinze after the Ghent pacification in 1576.

He later studied in Gent , Leiden , Franeker and at the Protestant Faculty of Heidelberg University . Baudaert devoted himself there primarily to Hebrew and exegetical studies and wrote his "Triplex index" for the Latin Bible edition of Junius and Tremellius.

He was a preacher in Kampen (1593), Lisse (1596) and Zutphen (1597).

Was Baudaert as Contraremonstrant a follower of the Calvinist religion. At the Dordrecht Synod in 1618 he was commissioned to co- author the Dutch translation of the Bible (" Statenbijbel ") , which was to be organized on behalf of the States General . To promote this translation, published in 1637, he lived in the city of Leiden for a long time.

Works

• Apophthegmata Christiana, often Gedenckweerdige, leerzame en aerdige spreucken… (1605, 1620)
• Morghen alarm clock of the vrye Nederlantsche provintien (1610)
• Les guerres de Nassau (1616)
• Memories, oste cort Verhael the most commemorative soo kerkelyke als wereldlyke Geschiedenissen van Nederlant, Vranckeryck etc. (1620, 1624, 1625)
• Polemographia Auraico Belgica (1622)
  • Here events from the first years of the Eighty Years' War are described and illustrated by means of copper engravings . The work was published by Michael Colinius in Amsterdam . The engravings are largely copies of the works of Frans Hogenberg .
• Apophtegmata christiana

Others

• The Baudartius College in Gelderland Zutphen is a Christian school, which is named after him.

Engravings from the Polemographia Auraico Belgica

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  Bredevoort

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  Conquest of Briel

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  Sea battle near Bergen op Zoom

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  Rotterdam

References

1. ^ Alberdingk Thijm:  Baudaert, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 135.

Web links

• Willem Baudartius ( Dutch ) De Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren. Retrieved April 16, 2011.
• Baudartius, Wilhelmus ( Dutch ) Universiteit Leiden. Retrieved April 16, 2011.
• Prof. Dr. A.Th. van Deursen: DE STATENVERTALER Ds.WILLEM BAUDARTIUS STOND IN LISSE, deel 1 ( Dutch ) Nieuws Vereniging Oud Lisse. Retrieved April 16, 2011.