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Daniel de Breen (van Breen), born 1594 at [[Haarlem (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)|Haarlem]], died 1664 at [[Amsterdam (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)|Amsterdam]], was secretary of the group of Remonstrant ministers at the Reformed Synod of [[Dordrecht (Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)|Dordrecht]] in the [[Netherlands|Netherlands]] in 1618, but he soon withdrew from the [[Remonstrants|Remonstrants]] and joined the [[Collegiants|Collegiants.]] He founded the <em>college </em>of Amsterdam, of which he was an influential leader together with [[Boreel, Adam (1602-1665)|Adam Boreel]], the Mennonite minister [[Galenus Abrahamsz de Haan (1622-1706)|Galenus Abrahamsz]], and Michiel Coomans. De Breen, who is said to have had much influence on Galenus, ardently defended the principle of [[Nonresistance|nonresistance]] and the doctrines of [[Apocalypticism|millennialism]]. He wrote numerous theological books, including a compendium of the works of [[Erasmus, Desiderius (1466-1536)|Erasmus]]. His <em>Opera Theologica </em>were edited at Amsterdam in 1664 by his nephew Frans de Kuiper.
= Bibliography =
Hylkema, C. B. <em>Reformateurs: Geschiedkundige studiën over de godsdienstige bewegingen uit de nadagen onzer gouden eeuw</em>. Haarlem, 1902. Reprinted Groningen : Bouma’s Boekhuis ; Amsterdam : Bert Hagen, 1978: II, 195.

Visscher, H. and L. A. van Langeraad. <em>Het protestantsche vaderland: biographisch woordenboek van protestantsche godgeleerden in Nederland, </em>8 vols. Utrecht, 1903-1918: v. I, 604-606.
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