Vos, Willem de (1737-1823)
Willem de Vos, born 1737 at Amsterdam, died there 8 January 1823, married to Elizabeth Kops in 1766, a member of the de Vos family, was a Dutch Mennonite pastor. It is not known how or where he was trained for the ministry, but it is certain that he received a good education, including a Th.D. degree. In 1759-62 he was pastor of the Mennonite congregation of Haarlem and from 1762 of the Lamist church, and after the merger (1801), of the United Mennonite congregation at Amsterdam, until he retired in 1814. He was a cofounder of the Algemeene Doopsgezinde Sociëteit in 1811, and its first moderator 1811-12. He also acted as curator of its seminary. He promoted the merger of the Amsterdam Lamist and Zonist churches, which came about in 1801. Willem de Vos was a man of great learning, specializing in philosophy. His studies on (a) "De Grondregel der Protestanten . . . om in zaken van den godsdienst voor zich zelven te oordeelen," (b) "In hoeverre Jezus en zijne apostelen . . . zich naar de toen heerschende volksbegrippen hebben geschikt," and (c) "De genoegzaamheid van het inwendig bewijs voor de goddelijkheid der Evangelieleer" (these essays are also known under somewhat modified titles) were given awards by the Teyler Foundation at Haarlem and published in its Verhandelingen, vols. IX (1789), XI (1791), and XV (1795). De Vos wrote an appreciative sketch of his colleague Allard Hulshoff, d.1795, in Leven en Character van A. H. (Amsterdam, 1795). In 1786 he taught philosophy and religion in the Mennonite seminary. He was a member of a number of learned societies, for which he sometimes delivered addresses on religious and timely subjects.
Bibliography
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1863): 16; (1898): 13, 20, 26, 32.
Doopsgezind Jaarboekje (1840): 112; (1850): 113, 122, 143, 170, note 1.
Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam, 2 vols. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: II, Nos. 692, 697, 2505 f.
Molhuysen, P. C. and P. J. Blok. Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek, 10 vols. Leiden, 1911-1937: 1137 f.
Naamlijst der tegenwoordig in dienst zijnde predikanten der Mennoniten in de vereenigde Nederlanden. Amsterdam. (1829): 24.
| Author(s) | Nanne van der Zijpp |
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| Date Published | 1959 |
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