Valerius Andreas

Wouter Dries or Walter Driessens (1588–1655), Latinized Valerius Andreas, was an academic jurist, Hebraist, and historian from the Duchy of Brabant in the Habsburg Netherlands.

Life Valerius was born in Dessel on 27 November 1588, the eldest son of Henricus Dries and Adriana Pauwels. He was educated by schoolmaster Walter van Hout in Dessel and then by the Jesuit Andreas Schott. He learned Hebrew from the Scottish Jesuit John Hay and graduated B.A. from Douai University. De Initiis et progressu collegii trilinguis Buslidiani (1614). Dissertatio de toga et sago (Cologne, 1618). Bibliotheca Belgica in qua Belgica seu Germaniae inferioris provinciae urbesque, viri item in Belgio vita scriptisque clari et librorum nomenclatura (Leuven, 1623). Second edition Leuven, 1643. Fasti academici studii generalis lovaniensis (Leuven, 1635). Works at Lovanensia

A collection of his legal writings was published posthumously as Synopsis sive erothemata juris canonici (Cologne, 1660, 1672; Leuven 1680).