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HOFSTEDE DE GROOT, PETRUS (1802–1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 566 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GROOT, PETRUS (1802–1886) , Dutch theologian, was See also:born at See also:Leer in See also:East See also:Friesland, See also:Prussia, on the 8th of See also:October 1802, and was educated at the Gymnasium and university of See also:Groningen. For three years (1826–1829) he was pastor of the Reformed See also:Church at Ulrum, and then entered upon his lifelong duties as See also:professor of See also:theology at Groningen. With his colleagues L.G. Pareau, J. F. See also:van Vordt, and W. Muurling he edited from 1837 to 1872 the Waarheid in Liefde. In this See also:review and in his numerous books he vigorously upheld the orthodox faith against the Dutch " See also:modern theology " See also:movement. Many of his See also:works were written in Latin, including Disputatio, qua ep. ad Hebraeos cum Paulin. epistolis comparatur (1826), Institutiones historiae ecclesiae (1835), Institutio theologise naturalis (1842), See also:Encyclopaedia theologi christiani (1844). Others, in Dutch, were: The Divine See also:Education of Humanity up to the Coming of Jesus See also:Christ (3 vols., 1846), The Nature of the See also:Gospel See also:Ministry (1858), The " Modern Theology " of the See also:Netherlands (1869), The Old See also:Catholic Movement (1877). He became professor See also:emeritus in 1872, and died at Groningen on the 5th of See also:December 1886.

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