Gerard Joseph Van der Meer
Clergyman, controversialist and historian
About Gerard Joseph Van der Meer
Lived 1684 – 1730 (aged 45–46). Gerard Joseph Van der Meer was a latin Catholic priest.
Gerard Joseph Van der Meer (1684–1730) was a Catholic clergyman, controversialist and historian from the Low Countries.
Life Van der Meer was born in Tongeren in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège on 18 March 1684, the son of Christiaan Van der Meer and Elisabeth Somers. He studied at the school of the Canons Regular of St Augustine in Tongeren and at the Diocesan Seminary of Liège.
He received the tonsure on 22 March 1704, and was ordained to the priesthood on 14 June 1710. Rubrum sigillum noxium (Maastricht, Hertus, 1719)
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clergyman, controversialist and historian (1684 – 1730)
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Gerard Joseph Van der Meer was a latin Catholic priest.
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