a Dutch theologian, was born at Amsterdam, June 13, 1806. He studied at Leyden, and was in 1839 doctor of theology. After having served several congregations with great success, he was in 1843 called to Amsterdam, and was made professor of theology in 1854 at Utrecht. In 1874 he retired to Velp, near Arnheim, and died November 19,1880. He published, Jean et Theogene (Arnheim, 1838): — Histoire de la Reformation (1845; 5th ed. 1854): — De Historiae Ecclesiasticae et Theologia Moralis Studio (Utrecht, 1854): — De Historicae Religionis Christianae Indole (1860): — L'Historiographie de l'Histoire Ecclesiastique (1870-71, 2 volumes). See Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religieuses, s.v. (B.P.)