Samuel Naeranus (1582–1641) was a Dutch

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minister and

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poet, exiled in 1619 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 ...

Life

He was born in

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, where his father Servatius was a preacher, and attended the Latin school there under Rekenarius, moving to Amsterdam when his teacher did. :de:s:ADB:Naeranus, Samuel He studied at Saumur Academy and then at the

Academy of Sedan The Academy of Sedan ( Fr.: ''Académie de Sedan'') was a Huguenot academy in Sedan in the Principality of Sedan, founded in 1579 and suppressed in 1681. It was one of the main centres for the production of Reformed pastors in France for a hundred ...

, where he was rector of the Latin school from 1608 to 1610. Martin Opitz, Klaus Conermann, Harald Bollbuck, ''Briefwechsel und Lebenszeugnisse: kritische Edition mit Übersetzung'', Volume 1, p. 777
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At Sedan

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was his pupil. He was minister of

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, in 1613, when he made the French translation of the '' Ordinum Pietas'' of

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 ...

. He witnessed with other ministers disputations in 1614 and 1615 between Jan Geesteran and

Conrad Vorstius Conrad Vorstius (german: Konrad von der Vorst; la, Conradus Vorstius; 19 July 1569 – 29 September 1622) was a German-Dutch heterodox Remonstrant theologian, and successor to Jacobus Arminius in the theology chair at Leiden University.'Vorstius ...

. At the time of his exile he was minister at

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, where he had moved in 1617. He participated in the

, where he complained during the 46th and 54th sessions of the injustice of the Remonstrants not being allowed to present their own views. Exiled, Naeranus initially went to

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, where the Remonstrants were regrouping. In 1623 he was at

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, and was invited by Martin Ruar to move to Danzig. He was there at a merchants' church until 1631. He then moved back to Amersfoort.

Works

At Sedan in 1606 he published a ''Disputatio de libera voluntate'', which he translated from Latin to Dutch and published in 1611 as ''Dispvtatie van de vrye wille''. His ''Onderwysinge in de Christelijcke religie'' was the first short Remonstrant catechism, and reached a fourth edition in 1664 (Rotterdam); it was subjected to criticism by

Abraham Heidanus Abraham van Heyden or van Heiden ( la, Abraham Heidanus or '; 1597–1678) was a Dutch Calvinist minister and controversialist, sympathetic to Cartesianism. Life He was born in Frankenthal in the Palatinate, son of Gaspar van der Heiden the Younge ...

, and supported by

Simon Episcopius Simon Episcopius (8 January 1583 – 4 April 1643) was a Dutch theologian and Remonstrant who played a significant role at the Synod of Dort in 1618. His name is the Latinized form of his Dutch name Simon Bisschop. Life Born in Amsterdam, in 160 ...

. In exile in Danzig he published ''Senatus Gedanensis anagrammaticus'' (1632).

Family

Johannes Naeranus (1608–1679) was his son with his wife Maria Junius, daughter of

Franciscus Junius the Elder Franciscus Junius the Elder (born François du Jon, 1 May 1545 – 23 October 1602) was a Reformed scholar, Protestant reformer and theologian. Born in Bourges in central France, he initially studied law, but later decided to study theology ...

. Samuel helped Franciscus Junius the Younger with translation from Greek for his ''De pictura veterum'' (1637).Rolf Hendrik Bremmer, ''Franciscus Junius F.F. and his Circle'' (1998), p. 23
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