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Jacobus Revius
Jacobus Revius (born "Jakob Reefsen"; November 1586 – 15 November 1658) was a Dutch poet, Calvinist theologian and church historian. His most renowned collection of poems, "the Over-ysselsche Sangen en Dichten" (1630), forms a high point of Dutch baroque. According to Pieter Geyl,
Life.
Revius was born in Deventer, the son of the town's mayor, Ryck Reefsen, during the Dutch Revolt. Not long after his birth, in 1587, Deventer fell
depravity. It was answered by John Goodwin. Steuart is mentioned (as A. S.) in John Milton's poem "On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament", a caudate sonnet, along with Samuel Rutherford and Thomas Edwards (and, implicitly, Robert Baillie).
In 1644 he took up a position as Professor of Physics at the University of Leiden . With Jacobus Triglandius and Jacobus Revius he attacked Cartesianism there. In what is now known as the Leiden Crisis, coming to a head in 1647