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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 754 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KERCKHOVEN, See also:JAN POLYANDER See also:VAN DEN (1568-1646) , Dutch See also:Protestant divine, was See also:born at See also:Metz, in 1568. He became See also:French preacher at See also:Dort in 1591, and afterwards succeeded See also:Franz See also:Gomarus as See also:professor of See also:theology at See also:Leiden. He was invited by the States See also:General of See also:Holland to revise the Dutch See also:translation of the See also:Bible, and it was he who edited the canons of the See also:synod of Dort (1618–1619). His many published See also:works include Responsio ad sophismata A. Cocheletii doctoris surbonnistae (161o), Dispute contre l'See also:adoration See also:des reliques des See also:Saints trespasses (1611), Explicatio somae prophetae (1625).

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