Friedrich Spanheim the Younger
Calvinist theologian
About Friedrich Spanheim the Younger
Lived 1632 – 1701 (aged 69). Friedrich Spanheim the Younger was a Dutch church historian, theologian, librarian, university teacher and protestant theologian.
Friedrich Spanheim the Younger (1 May 1632 – 18 May 1701) was a German Calvinist theologian of conservative views, son of Friedrich Spanheim.
Life He was born in Geneva, and studied at the University of Leiden, graduating M.A. in 1648. He joined the faculty of the University of Heidelberg in 1655. Spanheim encouraged the Voetians to stamp their orthodoxy on the Leiden theological faculty, and in 1676 pushed for the publication of 20 deprecated positions, marking out the Cocceian/Cartesian views. In the university Abraham Heidanus, Wittichius and Burchardus de Volder resisted strongly, and Heidanus lost his position. In the longer term, however, the Voetian victory was pyrrhic, in that Cartesianism quite soon prevailed.
Spanheim died in 1701 in Leiden.
Works His collected works were published as Opera (1701–1703).
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Calvinist theologian (1632-1701)
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Friedrich Spanheim the Younger was born on 1 May 1632 in Geneva.
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Friedrich Spanheim the Younger died on 18 May 1701 in Leiden.
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Friedrich Spanheim the Younger was a church historian, theologian, librarian, university teacher and protestant theologian.
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Friedrich Spanheim the Younger was Dutch.
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