Jacobus Revius
Dutch writer, poet, Calvinist theologian and church historian (1586-1658) · Netherlands · On the map · Writers · Died at 72
Jacobus Revius 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.
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About this person
According to Pieter Geyl,…the real spirit of Calvinism, in its unimpeachable austerity, in its ferocity as well as in its self-abnegation, was personified in Revius […]
Country
Netherlands
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1586 to 1658 · aged 72
