Antonius Walaeus

Anthony Walaeus ( born October 3, 1573 Ghent, † July 3, 1639 in Leiden ) was a Calvinist, Reformed theologian and professor at the University of Leiden.

Life

His father, Jacques de Waele was pulled after the execution of the Count of Egmond from Brussels to Ghent, had there Margaretha Wagenaers married and found a job with Treasury. In 1583 he was, as followers of the Prince of Orange, thrown by the Flemish Calvinist Jan van Hembyze into prison, and came through the mediation Walheens again. 1585, after Gent had surrendered to the Duke of Parma, the family immigrated to Zeeland Middelburg.

Anthony received since 1581 Latin lessons from his uncle, the reformirtem preacher Titius from Enghien, and entered the services of a notary Middelburg later. 1588 he turned, however, to theology.

1602 he went to the preacher office in nearby village Koudekerke and married Paschuntze van Isenhoudt. Three years later he was appointed preacher to Middelburg. There he was employed at the university as a professor, and lived as such the national synod at.

In 1617 he was briefly preacher in Hague and in 1619 he had to comfort the Johan van Oldenbarnevelt.

After completion of the General Synod and removal of the unreformed of the Leiden University Walaeus received in July 1619 the Chair in theology. He and his colleagues defended the independence of the University of the Provincial Synod.

Until 1625 he created a new program for the Latin schools and worked on the Bible translation of the New Testament and the Apocrypha, together with their revision with Festus Hemmius and Jacobus Rolandus. In addition headed for ten years a seminary that had the East India Company in 1622 built in Leiden in preparation for service to the Indian communities .. Walaeus had also participated in the organizational tasks of the Leiden University and was in the years 1625, 1626 and 1639 been elected president of the Alma Mater. However, in his last term, he died.