Cornelis Brouwer

Cornelis Adriaensen (Dutch: Cornelis Adriaansz; also called Cornelis Brouwer; 1521–1581) was a Dutch or Flemish preacher of the Order of Saint Francis and an author, active mainly in Bruges. He is most notorious for founding and running a cultish Disciplina Gynopygica in Bruges where women and girls were encouraged to strip naked to receive light castigation.

Life and works Title page of the 1628 edition of the Historie van B. Cornelis Adriaensen He was born at Dort (Dordrecht) in 1521, and died at Ypres on 14 July 1581. He wrote sermons full of invectives against the leaders of the Huguenots in the Low Countries.