Lewis Du Moulin (''Ludovicus Molinaeus''; pseudonym: ''Ludiomaeus Colvinus''; 1606–1680) was a French

Huguenot The Huguenots ( , also , ) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Be ...

physician and controversialist, who settled in England. He became Camden Professor of History at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

Life

He was born in Paris, the son of theologian

Pierre Du Moulin Pierre Du Moulin ( Latinized as Petrus Molinaeus; 16 October 1568 – 10 March 1658) was a Huguenot minister in France who also resided in England for some years. Life Born in Buhy in 1568, he was the son of Joachim Du Moulin, a Protestant minis ...

, and brother of Wolfgang Du Mulin,

Peter Du Moulin Peter du Moulin (1601–1684) was a French-English Anglican clergyman, son of the Huguenot pastor Pierre du Moulin and brother of Lewis du Moulin. He was the anonymous author of ''Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum adversus paricidas Anglicanos'', ...

. He qualified M.D. at the

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, and came to England to practice medicine as a young man. He was a moderate critic of

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, identified as an

Erastian Thomas Erastus (original surname Lüber, Lieber, or Liebler; 7 September 152431 December 1583) was a Swiss physician and Calvinist theologian. He wrote 100 theses (later reduced to 75) in which he argued that the sins committed by Christians sho ...

. He was on good terms with John Owen and

Richard Baxter Richard Baxter (12 November 1615 – 8 December 1691) was an English Puritan church leader, poet, hymnodist, theologian, and controversialist. Dean Stanley called him "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen". After some false starts, he ...

, but also Joseph Hall. He obtained the Camden Professorship in 1646 after petitioning Parliament. He was ejected from the position in 1660. Trevor Henry Aston, Nicholas Tyacke (editors), ''The History of the University of Oxford: Volume IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford'' (1984), p. 348-9.

Works

*''Vox populi'' (1641) as Irenaus Philadelphus *''Aytomaxia, or, the self-contradiction of some that contend about church-government'' (1643) as Ireneus Philalethes *''The power of the Christian magistrate in sacred things'' (1650) *''Morum exemplar seu caracteres'' (1654) *''Paraenesis ad aedificatores imperii in imperio'' (1656) *''Of the Right of Churches'' (1658) *''Kern der Alchemie'' (1750
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References

*Concise Dictionary of National Biography

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Du Moulin, Lewis 1606 births 1680 deaths 17th-century English medical doctors 17th-century French physicians French Protestants Erastians Camden Professors of Ancient History