Willem van Irhoven
Willem van Irhoven (also: Wilhelm van Irhove , born November 2, 1698 in Kessel , † November 18, 1760 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch Reformed theologian.
Life
Willem van Irhoven was the son of Pieter van Irhoven and Petronella Huerminck. In 1715 he attended the Illustre grammar school in 's-Hertogenbosch , where he studied Greek by L. van Eybergen (1693-1738), by Johannes Leyendecker (1668-1722) in Hebrew and by Antonius Martini (1654-1730) in philosophy was taught. After this elementary basic education he began on September 15, 1717 at the University of Leiden to study philosophy. In Leiden he devoted himself to studying classical literature with Petrus Burman (1668–1741), with Johannes Heyman (1667–1737) he dealt with the oriental languages, and with Wolferdus Senguerd (1646–1724) he became familiar with philosophy and under the great Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738) he got to know chemistry better.
After he defended a treatise de intellectu facultate vere activa in 1720 , he acquired with the defense of the treatise De spatio vacuo (Leiden 1721) on July 7, 1721 the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy. Afterwards, as Senguerd's pupil, he was an avid visitor to the theological lectures of Taco Hajo van den Honert and completed rhetoric lectures with Johannes van Marck (1655–1731) and Johannes Wesselius (1671–1745). After he was accepted as a candidate for the office of preacher, he was given a pastor's post in Ede on December 22, 1722 . In 1724 he declined an offer as a high school professor of philosophy in Lingen with thanks, so that the curators of the University of Utrecht appointed him professor of theology on June 19, 1737. For this he acquired the academic degree of doctor of theology at the University of Utrecht on September 13, 1737 and he took over the position offered to him on September 16, 1737 with the speech de sapientiae christianae impedimentis .
After he was rector of the Utrecht University for the first time in 1738/39 , he gave the farewell speech De necessario linguarum eruditarum, antiquitatum, historiae, philosopiae, artiumque liberalum cum theologia connubio (Utrecht 1739) in 1739. Soon afterwards, on February 22, 1740, he took over the professorship of church history and held the rectorate of the Utrecht University again in 1759/60, which he resigned with the speech De praestantia Revelationis, debitaque animorum erga eam dispositione (Utrecht 1761). Shortly afterwards he was forced to stop lecturing for health reasons. Emerging from the school of Gisbert Voetius , Irhoven appeared as a tolerant and peaceful theologian. After his death, his extensive library was sold to the public.
family
From his marriage to Catharina Altius († 1739), the daughter of pastor Hermann Altius, in Barneveld on June 26, 1725, there were eight children, four of whom died in childhood. After Irhoven died, four daughters were still alive. One daughter married the Utrecht lawyer Egbert Cotius, another daughter with the Stapenhorst pastor Cornelis van Uam, another daughter married the pastor in Midwoud Johannes Locmann and the last daughter was not wed when the father died. After the death of his first wife, Irhoven entered into a second marriage on August 9, 1746 with Debora Scheering, the widow of Petrus Gemmenich. The marriage remained childless.
Works (selection)
- Conjectanea philologico- critico- theologica in psalmorum titulos. Leiden 1728.
- Gronden van het verzekert Christendom. 's Hage 1729, 1744.
- De Palingenesia veterum, see Metempsychosi sic dicta Pythagorica. Amsterdam 1733.
- Canones Synodi Nationalis Dordracenae , of Oordeel of the Synod Nationaal der Gereformeerde kerken van de vereenigde Nederlanden, owned in Dordrecht Anno 1618 and 1619 over de bekende vijf hoofdstukken of the void. Utrecht 1752, 1787.
literature
- Barend Glasius: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederlandsche Godgeleerden. Muller Brothers, 's-Hertogenbosch, 1853, Vol. 2, p. 193. ( Online , Dutch)
- Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1860, vol. 9, p. 32, ( online , Dutch)
- van Knipscheer: IRHOVEN (Willem van) . In: Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen , Petrus Johannes Blok : Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek. (NNBW), AW Sijthoff's Uitgevers-Maatschappij publishing house, Leiden, 1930, vol. 8, col. 904, (Dutch)
- Ferd. Sassen: Students from the Illustre School te 's-Hertogenbosch 1636-1810. VV Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, Amsterdam-London, 1970, pp. 44-47.
- WJvan Asselt: Irhoven, Wilhelmus van . In Biografisch Lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands Protestantisme. Verlag HJ Kok, Kampen, 1998, ISBN 9024292697 , 4th volume, p. 222
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Irhoven, Willem van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | van Irhove, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch Reformed theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1698 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | boiler |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 18, 1760 |
| Place of death | Utrecht |