Portret van Willem Baudartius, RP-P-1878-A-1421(R)

Willem Baudaert or Wilhelmus Baudartius (13 February 1565 in

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, to 15 December 1640

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), born Willem Baudart, was a Dutch theologian.

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, a Christian secondary school in Zutphen, is named after him. He was the maternal grandfather of Dutch

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colonist and mayor of New York City

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Life

Born to Protestant parents in Deinze, Flanders and a fervent

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, Baudartius left the Netherlands on the Duke of Alva's arrival, and landed in England at

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. He studied at

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as well as on the continent at

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, and

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. He served as a preacher at Kampen (1593),

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(1596), and Zutphen (until 1640). Highly knowledgeable in Hebrew, he was asked to take part in the Statenvertaling translation of the Bible. Baudartius was a student under David Pareus, a Professor of Theology at

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from 1573 until his death. His colleague from 1589 to 1596 was Jacobus Kimmedonck. He had previously studied under Kimmedonck from 1578 till 1584 at Ghent University. Kimmedonck, then minister at Middleburg in Zeeland, introduced him to the Church of Leiden. In 1585, after the fall of Ghent and Antwerp before the Spanish army under Parma, Baudartius moved to Leiden, in Holland, where his sister Johanna lived.

Works

Baudartius compiled a collection of Christian

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s under the title ''Apophthegmata Christiana, ofte gedenckweerdige, leerzame en aerdige spreucken'' (1605, 1620), and wrote a pamphlet opposing the

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under the title ''Morghen-Wecker der vrye Nederlantsche provintien'' (1610). He also produced a series of illustrations of major events during the first phase of the

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, ''De Nassausche oorloghen'' (Amsterdam, 1615). File:14-4002_Print_Baudartius_Triumphal_entry_of_Prince_of_Orange_in_Brussels_1577_1.jpg, The triumphal entry of the

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. File:Print_Baudartius_Siege_of_Gent_Spanjaardenkasteel_1576.jpg, The

seizes the 'Spanish Castle' in

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on 11 November 1576. File:Print_Baudartius_funeral_procession_Duke_of_Parma.jpg, The arrival of the funeral procession of

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, Duke of Parma,

1592. File:Print_Baudartius_Capture_of_Duke_of_Aerschot_28_October_1577_1.jpg, Philipe de Croÿ, Duke of Aarschot and other nobles are taken prisoner in the Court of St. Baeffs in

on 28 October 1577. File:14-4007_Print_Baudartius_Arrival_Don_Juan_in_Brussels_1577_1.jpg, The

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of John of Austria in

on 1 May 1577. File:14-4003_Print_Baudartius_Arrival_Duke_of_Alba_Brussels_1567_1.jpg, The arrival of the

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, 1567.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Baudartius, Willem 1565 births 1640 deaths People from Deinze Dutch Calvinist and Reformed theologians Translators of the Bible into Dutch Protestant writers Dutch members of the Dutch Reformed Church 16th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians 17th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians