Johannes Polyander van den Kerckhoven (28 March 1568, in Metz – 4 February 1646, in Leiden) was a Dutch Calvinist theologian, a Contra-Remonstrant but considered of moderate views. Life He was born in Metz, France. His father was from Ghent, but had gone into exile in Lorraine where he was a Protestant pastor. The family then moved to Heidelberg.Gustave Cohen, Écrivains français en Hollande dans la premiere moitié du 17e siecle (1920), pp. 222–3; archive.org. He studied at Heidelberg under Franciscus Junius, graduating M.A. in 1589; and then for a doctorate in Geneva in 1590, under Theodore Beza.
He became French preacher at Dordrecht in 1591, and later succeeded Franz Gomarus as professor of theology at the University of Leiden, where he taught from 1611. Polyander was considered a conciliatory figure, in the aftermath of the affairs at Leiden of Jacobus Arminius and Conrad Vorstius.C. C. Barfoot and Richard Todd, The Great Emporium: the Low Countries as a cultural crossroads in the Renaissance and the eighteenth century (1992), p. 90; Google Books.
His epitaph is displayed in the Pieterskerk, Leiden.
Family His son was Johan Polyander, lord of Heenvliet. He was a Dutch diplomat.Henk F. K. van Nierop, The Nobility of Holland: from knights to regents, 1500-1650 (1993), p. 15; Google Books. He married Katherine Wotton, Countess of Chesterfield. She was the widow of Henry Stanhope, Lord Stanhope.
Works He was invited by the States of Holland to revise the Dutch translation of the Bible (the Statenvertaling), and it was he who edited the canons of the synod of Dort (1618–1619). His published works include:
Responsio ad sophismata A. Cocheletii doctoris surbonnistae (1610), against the Carmelite Anastasius Cochelet, an opponent of Justus Lipsius;Wolfgang Neuber, Cognition and the Book: typologies of formal organisation of knowledge in the printed book of the early modern period (2005), p. 85; Google Books. Dispute contre l'adoration des reliques des Saints trespasses (1611); Explicatio somae prophetae (1625).
References
Further reading A. J. Lamping (1980), Johannes Polyander, een dienaar van Kerk en Universiteit
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