TIELE, CORNELIS PETRUS (1830-1902)

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TIELE, CORNELIS PETRUS (1830-1902) , Dutch theologian and scholar, was born at Leiden on the 16th of December 183o. He was educated at Amsterdam, first studying at the

Athenaeum

ATHENAEUM

Illustre, as the communal high school of the

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

was then named, and afterwards at the

seminary

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

of the Remonstrant Brotherhood. He was destined for the pastorate in his own brotherhood. After steadily declining for a considerable period, this had increased its influence in the hecond half of the 19th century by widening the inelastic tenets of the Dutch Methodists, which had caused many of the liberal clergy among the Lutherans and Calvinists to go over to the Remonstrants. Tiele certainly had liberal religious views himself, which he early enunciated from the pulpit, as Remonstrant pastor of Moordrecht (1853) and at Rotterdam (1856). Upon the removal of the

seminary

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

of the brotherhood from Amsterdam to Leiden in 1873, Tiele was appointed one of its leading professors. In 1877 followed his appointment at the university of Leiden as professor of the history of religions, a chair specially created for him. Of his many learned works, the Vergelijkende geschiedenis van de egyptische en mesopotamische Godsdiensten (1872), and the Geschiedenis van den Godsdienst (1876; new ed. 1891), have been translated into English, the former by James Ballingall (1878-1882), the latter by J. Estlin Carpenter (1877) under the title " Outlines of the History of Religion "(French translation, 1885; German translation, 1895). A French translation of the Comparative History was published in 1882. Other works by Tiele are: De Godsdienst van Zarathustra, van het Ontstaan in Baktrie, tot den Val van het Oud-Perzische Rijk (1864) a

work

WORK

now embodied, but much enlarged and improved by the latest researches of the author, in the History of Religions (vol. ii. part ii., Amsterdam, 1901), a part which appeared only a short time before the author's death; De Vrucht der Assyriologie voor de vergelijkende geschiedenis der Godsdiensten (1877; German ed., 1878) ; Babylonisch-assyrische Geschichte (two parts,

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, 1886-1888); Western Asia, according to the most

Recent

RECENT

Discoveries (London, 1894). He was also the writer of the article " Religions " in the 9th edition of the Ency. Brit. A volume of Tiele's sermons ' appeared in 1865, and a collection of his poems in 1863. He also edited (1868) the poems of Petrus

Augustus

AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

de Genestet. Tiele was best known to English students by his Outlines and the

Gifford

Lectures " On the Elements of the Science of Religion," delivered in 1896-1898 at Edinburgh University. They appeared simultaneously in Dutch at Amsterdam, in English in London and Edinburgh (1897-1899, 2 vols.). Edinburgh University in 1900 conferred upon Tiele the degree of D.D. honoris ceusd, an honour bestowed upon him previously by the universities of Dublin and Bologna. He was also a fellow of at least fifteen learned societies in Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy,

Great

GREAT

Britain and the United States. He died on the 1th of January 1902. In 1901 he had resigned his professorship at Leiden University. Tiele's zeal and power for

work

WORK

were as extraordinary as his vast knowledge of ancient languages, peoples and religions, upon which his researches, according to F. Max Muller, have shed a new and vivid light. With Abraham Kuenen and J. H.

Scholten

SCHOLTEN, JAN HENDRIK (181r-1885)

, amongst others, he founded the " Leiden School " of modern theology. From 1867 he assisted A. Kuenen, A. D. Loman and L. W. Rauwenhoff editing the Theologisch Tijdschrift.
His brother PIETER ANTON TIELE (1834-1888) acted for many years as the librarian of Utrecht University, and distinguished himself by his bibliographical studies, more especially by his several works on the history of colonization in Asia. Among these the most noteworthy are: De Opkotnst van het nederlandsch Gezag in Oost-Indie (1886); De Vestiging der Portugeezen, in Indie (1873), and other books on the early Portuguese colonization in the Malay Archipelago.

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