About Jan Pietersz Beelthouwer
Lived 1603 – 1665 (aged 61–62). Jan Pietersz Beelthouwer was a sculptor, schoolmaster, publisher, writer, sick comforter and poet.
Jan Pieterszoon Beelthouwer was a Dutch Collegiant controversialist of unorthodox beliefs from Enkhuizen. He propagated Socinian views.
From around 1644 he had public debates with Isaac Montalto, Jacob Judah Leon and Menasseh ben Israel, Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam. He was regarded as a heretic in Enkhuizen from 1656. He wrote against the conservative Mennonite apothecary Lambert Bidloo.
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Dutch Collegiant
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Jan Pietersz Beelthouwer was born in 1603 in Enkhuizen.
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Jan Pietersz Beelthouwer died in 1665 in Amsterdam.
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Jan Pietersz Beelthouwer was a sculptor, schoolmaster, publisher, writer, sick comforter and poet.
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