Jacobus Verheiden
Jacobus Verheiden (Verheidanus Graviensis) ( fl. 15901618) was a Dutch schoolmaster known as an author. Life He was the elder brother of William Verheiden (1568–1596) from Grave. They both attended the University of Leiden in 1590, and Jacobus was at Heidelberg in 1591. He became rector of the Latin school in Nijmegen. He was a friend of Thomas Bodley.Pol, p. 416. Verheiden was a delegate from the Synod of Gelderland to the Synod of Dort in 1618. Works The ''Praestantium aliquot theologorum'' (1602) consisted of 50 engraved portraits of Protestant theologians, with a few earlier figures (Berengar of Tours, John Wycliffe, Jan Hus, Jerome of Prague, Girolamo Savonarola and Erasmus) and a few laymen, for which Verheiden supplied Latin text, including biographical and bibliographical information. Many of the images, by Hendrik Hondius I, had appeared in an earlier work. The full title presents these men as opponents of the Roman Antichrist, combining images with eulogies by Verhe ...
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