Johannes Bogerman

Johann (es) Bogerman ( s) ( * 1576 Upleward in Ostfriesland, † September 11, 1637 in Franeker ) was a Reformed theologian of the 17th century.

Life

The son of a preacher studied from 1591 in Franeker, Heidelberg, Geneva, Zurich, Lausanne, Oxford and Cambridge, and became a preacher in 1599 in Sneek, 1603 in Enkhuizen and 1604 in Leeuwarden.

As an avid follower of the doctrine of predestination Calvi niches he took a lively part in the Arminian disputes through writings against Hugo Grotius and the Remonstrants. He was elected by the Synod of Dort in 1618-19 to the Church President, and worked from 1636 as Dr. and professor of theology at the University of Franeker. He was a member of the " Statenbijbel ," the Dutch Bible translation of 1637th

Although itself is not above suspicion of heterodoxy, he was filled with such zeal for orthodoxy and such Ketzerhaß that he published Theodore de Beza 's treatise on the right to punish the heretics alive in a Dutch translation. His management in Dordrecht was not made without reason accusations of partiality and violence, and even sordid avarice and greed, he was accused by opponents. On learning he was not up to the Remonstrants.