Quotes:Vossius, Gerhard Johann

Zirkoff, Boris

Vossius (Voss), Gerhard Johann. German classical scholar and theologian, b. near Heidelberg in 1577; d. at Amsterdam, March 19, 1649. Educated at Univ, of Leyden, where he became a life-long friend of Hugo Grotius, studying the Classics, Hebrew, church history and theology. He was director of the theological college at Leyden, 1614-19. His work on the history of the Pelagian controversies published in 1618 resulted in his being suspected of heresy; he resigned his position, but was appointed later to the chair of Greek. After a brief residence in England where he was made LL.D, at Oxford, he became professor of history in the newly-founded Athenaeum at Amsterdam. His Collected Works were publ. at Amsterdam in 6 vols., 1695-1701. Ref. in the present Volume is to his *De theologia gentili, at physiologia Christiana; sive de origine ac progressu idolatriae, etc., Amsterdam, 1642 and 1668, 2 vols. Vossius was among the first men to treat theological dogmas and the heathen religions from the historical point of view.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 670