Jacobus Arminius (1560-1609)
- Subject Fields
- Theology
- Subject Fields
- Theology
- Born
- Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Famous for
- Being the "theologian and minister of the Dutch Reformed Church who opposed the strict Calvinist teaching on predestination and who developed in reaction a theological system known later as Arminianism". Famous for the heated struggle with theologian and colleague professor, Gomarus, who opposed Arminius's belief that man chooses for God.
- Researcher in Leiden
- 1603-1609
- Today in Leiden
- Research about Arminius (in Dutch), Pieterskerkhof, where Arminius lived and died.
