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JORIS, DAVID

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 512 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JORIS, See also:DAVID , the See also:common name of See also:JAN JORISZ or JoRISZOON (c. 1501–1556), Anabaptist heresiarch who called himself later JAN See also:VAN BRUGGE; was See also:born in 1501 or 1502, probably in See also:Flanders, at See also:Ghent or See also:Bruges. His See also:father, Georgius Joris de Koman, other-See also:wise Joris van Amersfoordt, probably a native of Bruges, was a shopkeeper and See also:amateur actor at See also:Delft; from the circumstance that he played the See also:part of See also:King David, his son received the name of David, but probably not in See also:baptism. His See also:mother was Marytje, daughter of Jan de Gorter, of a See also:good See also:family in Delft. As a See also:child he was See also:clever and delicate. He seems then or later to have acquired some See also:tincture of learning. His first known occupation was that of a See also:glass-painter; in 1522 he painted windows for the See also:church at See also:Enkhuizen, See also:North See also:Holland (the birthplace of See also:Paul See also:Potter). In pursuit of his See also:art he travelled, and is said to have reached See also:England; See also:ill-See also:health drove him homewards in 1524, in which See also:year he married Dirckgen See also:Willems at Delft. In the same year the Lutheran See also:reformation took hold of him, and he began to issue appeals in See also:prose and See also:verse against the See also:Mass and against the See also:pope as See also:antichrist. On See also:Ascension See also:Day 1528 he committed an See also:outrage on the See also:sacrament carried in procession; he was placed in the See also:pillory, had his See also:tongue bored, and was banished from Delft for three years. He turned to the See also:Ana-See also:baptists, was rebaptized in 1533, and for some years led a wandering See also:life. He came into relations with See also:John a Lasco, and with Menno Simons.

Much influenced by Melchior Hofman, he had no sympathy with the fanatic violence of the See also:

Munster See also:faction. At the See also:Buckholdt See also:conference in See also:August 1536 he played a mediating part. His mother, in 1537, suffered martyrdom as an Anabaptist. Soon after he took up a role of his own, having visions and a See also:gift of prophecy. He adapted in his own See also:interest the theory (constantly recurrent among mystics and innovators, from the See also:time of See also:Abbot See also:Joachim to the See also:present day) of three dispensations, the old, with its See also:revelation of the Father, the newer with its revelation of the Son, and the final or era of the Spirit. Of this newest revelation Christus David was the See also:mouthpiece, supervening on Christus Jesus. From the 1st of See also:April 1544, bringing with him some of his followers, he took up his See also:abode in See also:Basel, which was to be the New See also:Jerusalem. Here he styled himself Jan van Brugge. His identity was unknown to the authorities of Basel, who had no suspicion of his heresies. By his writings he maintained his hold on his numerous followers in Holland and See also:Friesland. These monotonous writings, all in Dutch, flowed in a continual stream from 1524 (though none is circumstances. He has also himself suffered much from the in-accuracy of copyists.

But nothing has really been more unfortunate for the reputation of Jordanes as a writer than the extreme preciousness of the See also:

information which he has preserved to us. The See also:Teutonic tribes whose dim origins he records have in the course of centuries attained to See also:world-wide dominion. The See also:battle in the See also:Mauriac plains of which he is really the See also:sole historian, is now seen to have had important See also:bearings on the destinies of the world. And thus the hasty pamphlet of a See also:half-educated See also:Gothic See also:monk has been forced into prominence, almost into rivalry with the finished productions of the See also:great writers of classical antiquity. No wonder that it stands the comparison badly; but with all its faults the Getica of Jordanes will probably ever retain its See also:place See also:side by side with the De moribus Germanorum of See also:Tacitus as a See also:chief source of information respecting the See also:history, institutions and modes of thought of our Teutonic forefathers.

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