Antonius Walaeus [SEP] place of death
Antonius Walaeus
Antonius Walaeus (Antoine de Waele, Anton van Wale) (October 1573, Ghent – 3 July 1639, Leiden) was a Dutch Calvinist minister, theologian, and academic.
Early life.
He was born at Ghent, where his father Jacques de Waele had moved from Brussels, after the execution of Lamoral, Count of Egmont in 1568. Jacques de Waele being a supporter of William I, Prince of Orange, the family left for Zeeland in 1585.
Walaeus was educated at Middelburg school
in Remonstrantium remonstrantiam" (1617).
With Johannes Polyander, André Rivet and Antonius Walaeus, he published in 1625 a "Synopsis purioris theologiae", long in use in the university. He wrote also "De natura Dei et divinis attributis" (1625).
Family.
In Harderwijk in 1602 Thysius married Johanna de Raadt. Their son (1613?-1665) was from 1637 professor of poetry at the university, and later state historiographer in place of Daniel Heinsius.
Constantine L'Empereur married Catherine Thys, niece of