Friedrich Spanheim
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Friedrich Spanheim the Elder (January 1, 1600, Amberg – May 14, 1649, Leiden) was a Calvinistic theology professor at the University of Leiden.
Life
He entered in 1614 the University of Heidelberg where he studied philology and philosophy, and in 1619 removed to Geneva to study theology. In 1621 he became tutor in the house of Jean de Bonne, Baron de Vitrolle, governor of Embrun in Dauphiné, and after three years he visited Geneva, and Paris, and England, returning to Geneva in 1626 and becoming professor of philosophy. In 1631 he went over to the theological faculty, and was rector of the academy from 1633 to 1637.
In 1642 he moved to Leiden as professor of theology. There Spanheim became one of the most prominent defenders of the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination against Amyraldism.
Works
He published anonymously, Le Soldat suedois (1633), a history of the Thirty Years' War until 1631 and Le Mercure suisse (1634); Commentaire historique de la vie et de la mort de . . Christofle Vicomte de Dohna (1639).
His principal theological works are:
- Dubia evangelica (3 vols., Geneva, 1631-1639)
- Disputatio de gratia universali (3 vols., Leiden, 1644-1648)
- Epistola ad Buchananum super controversiis...in ecclesiis Anglicanis (Leiden, 1645).
Against the Anabaptists he wrote Variae disputationes anti-Anabaptisticae (1643) and Diatribe historica de origine, progressu, sectis et nominibus anabaptistarum (1645; English translation, Englands Warning by Germanies[1] Woe, London, 1646).
References
- A. Heiden, Oratio funebris in obitum...F. Spenhemii, Leiden, 1849.
- Pierre Bayle, Dictionary, v. 193-195.
- Nicéron, Mémoires, xxix. 35
- J. Senebier, Hist. littéraire de Genève, ii. 191 sqq., Geneva, 1786
- Lichtenberger, ESR, xi. 656.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jackson, Samuel Macauley, ed. (1914). "Spanheim, Friedrich, the Elder". New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (third ed.). London and New York: Funk and Wagnalls.
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- 1600 births
- 1649 deaths
- 17th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians
- Dutch Calvinist and Reformed theologians
- Heidelberg University alumni
- Academic staff of Leiden University
- Academic staff of the University of Geneva
- People from Amberg