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COORNHERT, DIRCK VOLCKERTSZOON (1522-1590)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 92 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COM-COR
COORNHERT, DIRCK VOLCKERTSZOON (1522-1590) , Dutch politician and theologian, youngest son of Volckert
Coornhert
 , cloth merchant, was born at Amsterdam in 1522. As a child he spent some years in Spain and Portugal. Returning
home
 , he was disinherited by his father's will, for his
marriage
  with
Cornelia
  (Neeltje) Simons, a portionless gentlewoman. He took for a time the post of major-domo to Reginald (Reinoud), count of Brederode. Soon he settled in Haarlem, as engraver on copper, and produced works which retain high values. Learning Latin, he published Dutch translations from Cicero, Seneca and Boetius. He was appointed secretary to the city (1562) and secretary to the burgomasters .(1564). Throwing himself into the struggle with Spanish
rule
 , he drew up the manifesto of William of Orange (1566). Imprisoned at the Hague (1568), he escaped to Cleves, where he maintained himself by his art. Recalled in 1572, he was secretary of state for a short time; his aversion to military violence led him to return to Cleves, where William continued to employ his services and his pen. As a religious man, he wrote and strove in favour of tolerance, being decidedly against
capital
  punishment for heretics. He had no party views; the
Heidelberg
  catechism, authoritative in Holland, he criticized. The
great
  Arminius, employed to refute him, was won over by his arguments. He died at Gouda on the 29th of October 1590. His Dutch version of the New Testament, following the Latin of
Erasmus
 , was never completed. His works, in
prose
  and verse, were published in 1630, 3 vols.
See F. D. J. Moorrees, Dirck Volckertszoon
Coornhert
  (1887) ; N. Delvenne, Biog. des Pays-Bas (1829); A. J. van der Aa, Biog. Woordenboek der Nederlanden (1855). (A. Go.*)


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