Nicolaas Grevinckhoven (Grevinchovius, Grevinghoven or Grevinchoven in German sources) (died 1632) was a Dutch Protestant minister, a combative proponent of the

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party.

Life

He studied in Leiden. From 1601 he was a preacher in Rotterdam. He attended the debate between Jacobus Arminius and

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in 1609, signed the Remonstrance of 1610, and attended the Hague Conference of 1611. Around 1610 he had a high-profile debate with William Ames; and

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later quoted from his written work against Arminians in general. In Rotterdam he was on bad terms with the

Contra-Remonstrant Franciscus Gomarus (François Gomaer; 30 January 1563 – 11 January 1641) was a Dutch theology, theologian, a strict Calvinism, Calvinist and an opponent of the teaching of Jacobus Arminius (and his followers), whose theological disputes were ad ...

minister Cornelis Geselius, who quarrelled insistently with Grevinckhoven at the prompting of the extremist Adriaan Smout. The result was an intervention of the magistrates, with the Contra-Remonstrants worshipping outside the town. With Jacobus Taurinus of Utrecht he was one of the most strident of Remonstrant pamphleteers. In

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after the

Synod of Dort The Synod of Dort (also known as the Synod of Dordt or the Synod of Dordrecht) was an international Synod held in Dordrecht in 1618–1619, by the Dutch Reformed Church, to settle a divisive controversy caused by the rise of Arminianism. The fi ...

in 1619, he tried to rally the Remonstrants, who had suffered defeat at the Synod in theological terms, and had also lost a major political battle in Holland. He was one of those reshaping the movement into the Remonstrant Reformed Brotherhood, in a committee with Johannes Wtenbogaert,

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Carolus Niellius Carolus Niellius (Charles de Nielles) (1576 – 1652) was a Dutch Remonstrant minister. Early life His father was Charles de Nielles the elder, from Tournai, a Reformed minister who worked in Antwerp and Wesel, and ended his life in 1604 at the W ...

and Johannes Arnoldi Corvinus. While there he provided shelter for

Hugo Grotius Hugo Grotius (; 10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645), also known as Huig de Groot () and Hugo de Groot (), was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, poet and playwright. A teenage intellectual prodigy, he was born in Delft ...

, recently escaped from imprisonment, in 1621.Israel p. 459. Grevinckhoven spent time in Holstein.

References

* :de:s:ADB:Grevinghoven, Nikolaus * Jonathan Israel (1998), ''The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806''

Notes and references

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