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Bartholomeusvan van Leuvenig (Leuvenigh, Loevenigh), born 15 April 1691 at [[Burtscheid (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)|Burtscheid]], [[Germany|Germany]], died 18 December 1759, at  [[Amsterdam (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)|Amsterdam]], was a son of Bartholomeus van Loevenich, a cloth merchant at Burtscheid and a member of the well-known [[Leuvenig, Van, family|von Loevenich]] family. Bartholomeus van Leuvenig, who received his theological training at the Amsterdam Athenaeum and from the Remonstrant professors [[Clericus, Johannes (1657-1736)|Clericus]] and van Limborgh, and who was married to Joanna de Clercq, of Amsterdam, in 1713 became an assistant preacher of the [[Lamist Mennonite Church (Amsterdam, Netherlands)|Amsterdam Lamist congregation]], being its pastor 1716-1739, in which year he resigned because of his health. He was a member of the [[Fonds voor Buitenlandsche Nooden (Dutch Relief Fund for Foreign Needs) |Dutch Mennonite Committee of Foreign Needs]], and frequently corresponded with the West Prussian churches; a number of these letters are found in the [[Amsterdam Mennonite Library (Bibliotheek en Archief van de Vereenigde
Doopsgezinde Gemeente te Amsterdam)|Mennonite Archives at Amsterdam]]. He published <em>Lykreden ober het Afsterven van D. Eekens </em>(his Amsterdam colleague) (Amsterdam, 1732); <em>Gods Tugtles aen Jerusalem </em>(Amsterdam, 1734); <em>Stichtelyke Gezangen </em>(Amsterdam, 1744); and <em>De Brief aan de Gemeente van Laodicea verklaard en toegepast </em>(13 sermons) (Amsterdam, 1746). [[Heyningen, Gerardus van (1716-1801)|G. van Heyningen]] delivered his funeral sermon, published at Amsterdam in 1759.
= Bibliography =
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. ''Mennonitisches Lexikon'', 4 vols. Frankfurt &amp; Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: II, 686.

Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. <em>Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam</em>, 2 vols. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: II, No. 2641.

Visscher, H. and L. A. van Langeraad. <em>Biographisch Woordenboek von Protestantsche Godgeleerden in Nederland. </em>Utrecht, 1903-: V: 770-772.
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