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Jacobus Verheiden (Verheidanus Graviensis) ( fl. 15901618) was a Dutch schoolmaster known as an author.
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Verheiden was a delegate from the Synod of Gelderland to the
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Life
He was the elder brother of William Verheiden (1568–1596) fromGrave
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.''Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek'', article Verheiden, Willem/ref> They both attended the
University of Leiden
Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, as a reward to the city of Le ...
in 1590, and Jacobus was at Heidelberg
Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...
in 1591. He became rector of the Latin school in Nijmegen
Nijmegen (;; Spanish and it, Nimega. Nijmeegs: ''Nimwèège'' ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole, located on the Waal river close to the German border. It is about 6 ...
. He was a friend of Thomas Bodley
Sir Thomas Bodley (2 March 1545 – 28 January 1613) was an English diplomat and scholar who founded the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
Origins
Thomas Bodley was born on 2 March 1545, in the second-to-last year of the reign of King Henry VIII, ...
.Pol, p. 416.
Verheiden was a delegate from the Synod of Gelderland to 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 1618.
Works
The ''Praestantium aliquot theologorum'' (1602) consisted of 50 engraved portraits of Protestant theologians, with a few earlier figures (Berengar of Tours
Berengar of Tours (died 6 January 1088), in Latin Berengarius Turonensis, was an 11th-century French Christian theologian and archdeacon of Angers, a scholar whose leadership of the cathedral school at Chartres set an example of intellectual i ...
, John Wycliffe
John Wycliffe (; also spelled Wyclif, Wickliffe, and other variants; 1328 – 31 December 1384) was an English scholastic philosopher, theologian, biblical translator, reformer, Catholic priest, and a seminary professor at the University of O ...
, Jan Hus
Jan Hus (; ; 1370 – 6 July 1415), sometimes anglicized as John Hus or John Huss, and referred to in historical texts as ''Iohannes Hus'' or ''Johannes Huss'', was a Czech theologian and philosopher who became a Church reformer and the inspir ...
, Jerome of Prague
Jerome of Prague ( cs, Jeroným Pražský; la, Hieronymus Pragensis; 1379 – 30 May 1416) was a Czech scholastic philosopher, theologian, reformer, and professor. Jerome was one of the chief followers of Jan Hus and was burned for heresy at ...
, Girolamo Savonarola
Girolamo Savonarola, OP (, , ; 21 September 1452 – 23 May 1498) or Jerome Savonarola was an Italian Dominican friar from Ferrara and preacher active in Renaissance Florence. He was known for his prophecies of civic glory, the destruction of ...
and Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (; ; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus;''Erasmus'' was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae. ''Desiderius'' was an adopted additional name, which he used from 1496. The ''Roterodamus'' wa ...
) and a few laymen, for which Verheiden supplied Latin text, including biographical and bibliographical information. Many of the images, by Hendrik Hondius I
Hendrik Hondius I (born Hendrik de Hondt; 9 June 1573 – ) was a Flemish-born and trained engraver, cartographer, and publisher who settled in the Dutch Republic in 1597.
Life
He was born as the son of Guillam (Willem) de Hondt, a philo ...
, had appeared in an earlier work. The full title presents these men as opponents of the Roman Antichrist, combining images with eulogies by Verheiden; the work is also known by the short ''Imagines et elogia''. The Dutch translation of 1603, as ''Afbeeldingen van sommighe in Godts Woort ervarene Mannen'', was by Pauwels de Kempenare. A second edition appeared in 1725, edited by Friedrich Roth-Scholtz.
The ''Praestantium'' was used at the University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
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, and some of the images influenced the painted frieze of the Bodleian Library. An English adaptation appeared as ''The History of the Moderne Protestant Divines'' (1637) by Donald Lupton; it included also material from the ''Heroologia Anglica'' of Henry Holland.
His first work was ''De jure belli belgici adversus Philippum'' (1596). He wrote also a biography of his brother, ''Vita Guillelmi Verheiden Belgae'' (1598).References
*E. Hulshoff Pol (1975), ''The First Century of Leiden University Library'' *Tobias Weger (2009), ''Grenzüberschreitende Biographien zwischen Ost- und Mitteleuropa: Wirkung - Interaktion - Rezeption''Notes
External links
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Verheiden, Jacobus 16th-century Dutch people Dutch male writers Participants in the Synod of Dort People from Grave, North Brabant Leiden University alumni