About Abraham Heidanus
Lived 1597 – 1678 (aged 81). Abraham Heidanus was a German university teacher and protestant theologian.
Abraham Heidanus, 1672 engraving by Abraham Blooteling, after Jan André Lievens. Abraham van Heyden or van Heiden ( or ; 10 August 1597 – 15 October 1678) was a Dutch Calvinist minister and controversialist, sympathetic to Cartesianism.
Life He was born in Frankenthal in the Palatinate, son of Gaspar van der Heiden the Younger, a Reformed minister and Counter-Remonstrant, and his wife Clara van den Borne.
In 1648 Heidanus was appointed professor of theology at the University of Leiden. Heidanus believed that theology and philosophy should be kept separate, and that a person did not have to have a definite opinion on philosophy in order to be a Christian. His daughter Maria married the son of Johannes Crucius.
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Who was Abraham Heidanus?
Dutch Calvinist minister
When was Abraham Heidanus born?
Abraham Heidanus was born on 10 August 1597 in Frankenthal.
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Abraham Heidanus died on 15 October 1678 in Leiden.
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Abraham Heidanus was a university teacher and protestant theologian.
What nationality was Abraham Heidanus?
Abraham Heidanus was German.
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