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[[File:Goes_door_Bakhuizen.jpg|300px|thumb|right|''Joannes Antonides by L. Bakhuizen, 17th century.<br />
Source: [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Goes_door_Bakhuizen.gif Wikipedia Commons]'']]
Joannes Antonides (usually called Antonides van der Goes, after [[Goes (Zeeland, Netherlands)|Goes]], Holland, the place of his birth) was born 3 May 1647 and died 15 September 1684 in [[Rotterdam (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)|Rotterdam]]. By his contemporaries he was regarded as one of the greatest poets, but that opinion is no longer held. His parents were simple members of the Mennonite congregation at Goes; his father, [[Goes, Antoni Jansen van der (17th century)|Anthoni Janssen]], also tried to write verse. When Joannes was four years old, his parents moved to [[Amsterdam (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)|Amsterdam]], where Joannes attended the Latin school and then worked in an apothecary shop. Later he studied medicine at the university of [[Utrecht (Utrecht, Netherlands)|Utrecht]] and received his doctor's degree on 5 June 1674, after which he became a physician in Rotterdam. Antonides took no active part in the congregational life. It is not even certain that he joined that church, although [[Muller, Samuel (1785-1875)|Samuel Müller]] regards him as having been a member.
= Bibliography =
<em class="gameo_bibliography">Doopsgezind Jaarboekje</em> (1840): 113.

<em class="gameo_bibliography">Doopsgezinde Bijdragen</em> (1899): 187.
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