Peter Werenfels (May 20, 1627 – May 23, 1703) was a Swiss theologian, professor at the

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and

antistes Antistes (from Latin ''ante'' "before" and ''sto'' "stand") was from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century the title of the head of a church in the Reformed Churches in Switzerland. It was the highest office in churches with synodal church gover ...

of the

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church. He served as the

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of prominent mathematician

Jacob Bernoulli Jacob Bernoulli (also known as James or Jacques; – 16 August 1705) was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He was an early proponent of Leibnizian calculus and sided with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz during the Le ...

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1623 births 1703 deaths Swiss Calvinist and Reformed theologians 17th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians 18th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians People from Basel-Stadt {{theologian-stub