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Name
  
Johannes Bogerman


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Died
  
September 11, 1637, Franeker, Netherlands

Johannes Bogerman (1576 – 11 September 1637) was a Frisian Protestant divine.

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He was born in Uplewert (Now Ostfriesland, Germany), the son of a preacher. From 1591 onwards, he studied in Franeker, Heidelberg, Geneva, Zürich, Lausanne, Oxford and Cambridge. In 1599, he became pastor in Sneek, 1603 in Enkhuizen and 1604 in Leeuwarden. In 1636, he became professor for theology in Franeker.

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He helped translate the Bible into Dutch (the Statenbijbel), and was President of the Synod of Dort. As a Calvinist, he preached against Anabaptists, Mennonites, Jesuits and the Arminians. He died in Franeker.

Literature

  • BWGN I, 466 ff.
  • NNBW I, 390 ff.
  • Christelijke Encyclopedie I, Kampen 1956, 687 f.
  • RGG I, 1345.
  • H. Edema van der Tuuk: J. Bogermann, Gröningen 1868.
  • Vriemoet: Series Prof. Franeker. p. 265.
  • Julius August Wagenmann (1876), "Johann Bogermann", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 3, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 39–40 
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1975). "Bogermann, Johann". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). 1. Hamm: Bautz. col. 671. ISBN 3-88309-013-1. 

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