Antonius Thysius the Elder
Anthony Thysius the Elder ( also: Thys, Thijs, Thisius; born August 9, 1565 in Antwerp, † November 7, 1640 in Leiden ) was a Reformed theologian.
Life
The son of the gem merchant Christoffel Thijs and his wife Martha Gilles had visited the schools in Lier, Dendermonde and finally in Antwerp, at Bonaventure Vulcanius. This he followed in 1581 at the University of Leiden, where he ( 1530-1595 ) completed a study of the literature, the other philosophical sciences at Justus Lipsius, Rudolph Snell, John Drusius ( 1550-1616 ) and Lambertus Daneau theology. In 1582 he began a study trip that took him to New Town, Frankenthal and to the University of Geneva, where he became a pupil of Theodore Beza, Isaac Casaubon and Antoine de La Faye ( 1540-1615 ). He then continued his studies at the universities of Lausanne, Bern, Zurich, Basel, Strasbourg and Heidelberg. At the latter place he spent four years at Domus Sapientiae, where he was a fellow student of Franciscus Gomarus.
1589 he moved to the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge and returned to Leiden on August 12, 1590. Here he received a calling to pastoral ministry in Harlem for a short time. 1591 compelled him his father's death to Frankfurt am Main to travel. In Germany arrived, he visited the cities of Gdansk, Rostock, Stade for further training. In Stade he was officially introduced to a sister of his father, who supported him as assistant pastor. For a time he lived in Emden, where he also worked as assistant pastor. Eighteen months later he visited in winter 1595/96 Amsterdam, where he was offered a pastorate. These and a further appeal by Dortrecht he lashed out because he wanted to study more. For this purpose he went to France, where he took part in the then universities in Saumur, Toulouse and Montpellier, in theological disputations. In 1600 he returned to Leiden, where he received the first theological professor at the Gymnasium Illustre in Harderwijk by supporting Gomarus on 16 August 1601. Here he worked for 18 years.
As the theological dispute between Gomarus and Jacobus Arminius broke out, he was an opponent of Arminus. He was a member of the Synod of Dort and worked on an alternative translation of the Old Testament. After he had also written some fonts, the curators of Leiden University appointed him on 31 August 1619 ordinary professor of theology, he was appointed the honorary Doctor of Divinity and he stepped entrusted to him office on 10 December of the same year with the speech Oratio de theologia ejusque studio capessendi (Leiden 1620) on. In his capacity as the Leiden university teacher, he also participated in the organizational tasks of the educational institution and had 1633/34 Rector of the Alma Mater. Although Thysius was involved in the theological controversies of the Calvinist faith of his time, he was regarded as a quiet and balanced theologian.
From his 1602 self Amsterdam marriage with Johanna de Raadt († 1639 ), dates the later Leyden professor of rhetoric and librarian Anthony Thysius the Younger ( 1603-1665 ) and the son of Francois Thysius who worked as a lawyer in Leiden.
Works
- Anglicana scripta de Praedestinatione, dual-powered bus libris, simul edita from AT Amsterdam 1613
- Empty the end of the order Nederlandsche soo Duytsche en Waal Gereformeerden kercken in een ligchaem Vervat. Amsterdam 1615
- Vertalinghe van sekere Iximbethaense artyckelen. eertijds gemaeckt in angels anti, end nu onlanghs uytghegheven in Latijn. 1616
- Belijdenisse the Gereformeerde Nederlandsche Kercke, na de copye Antonii Thysii, uytghegeven door P. Colonius. Ziriczee, 1617
- Responsio in Remonstrantiam. 1617
- Paraenesis, seu Oratio de Sacra Theologia, ejusque studio landscape sendo, from AT Habita in Leydensi Universitate. Cal decembris. M. DCXIX. Leiden 1620 ( inaug. )
- Synopsis purioris theologiae. Leiden 1625 ( with John Polyander v. K. )