Johannes Arnoldi Corvinus

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Johannes Arnoldi Corvinus born Joannes Arnoldsz Ravens (c.1582, Leiden – 2 January 1650, Amsterdam)[1] was a Dutch Remonstrant minister and jurist.

Life[]

He was born in Leiden, and in 1606 was a Calvinist preacher there. A pupil of Jacobus Arminius,[2] he took up the Arminian views, he was a public supporter of them by 1609, and in 1610 signed the Five Articles of Remonstrance. Subsequently, as a consequence of the Synod of Dort, he lost his church office in 1619. He left the country, being abroad until 1630. Studying law, he then had a career as advocate in Amsterdam.[3] In 1629 he converted to Roman Catholicism. [4]

Works[]

Theological writings
  • Christelicke ende ernstighe vermaninghe tot vrede aen R. Donteclock (1609), against
  • Teghen-bericht jeghens D. Francisci Gomari (1610), against Franciscus Gomarus
  • Responsio ad Bogermanni adnotationes, pro Grotio (1613), reply to Johannes Bogermann
  • Censura anatomes Arminianismi etc. (1614), against Pierre du Moulin
  • Petri Molinaei novi anatomici mala encheiresis (1622). Reply to Du Moulin's Anatome Arminianismi (1619).[5] This work follows Hugo Grotius on the Ten Commandments, suggesting they are divine positive law, rather than the law of nature.[6]
Title page from Jurisprudentia romana H[ermanni] Vulteii contracta (1644), a summary of a work by (1555-1634)
Legal writings

Corvinus had been quite close to Grotius, in the 1610s, and from around 1632 taught the law. With and Pieter de la Court he was one of a group of legal writers with Remonstrant sympathies who commented on reason of state; Corvinus did this in an edition of the De arcanis rerumpublicarum of Arnoldus Clapmarius (1641).[2] Other works were:

  • Posthumus Pacianus (1643) on Giulio Pace
  • Jurisprudentia romana (1644)
  • Conclusiones de ivre pvblico (1644) with Arnoldus Clapmarius, Christoph Besold, and
  • Enchiridium seu institutiones imperiales (1649)
  • Jus canonicum per aphorismos strictim explicatum (1648)

Family[]

His son Arendt became a professor of law at Mainz.[7]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Joannes Arnoldsz. Ravens at biografischportaal.nl
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Anthony Pagden (editor), The Idea of Europe: from antiquity to the European Union, Volume 13 (2002), p. 105; Google Books.
  3. ^ de:s: ADB:Corvinus, Johann Arnold
  4. ^ "Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme".
  5. ^ John Platt, Reformed Thought and Scholasticism: the arguments for the existence of God in Dutch theology, 1575-1650 (1982), p. 184; Google Books.
  6. ^ Richard Tuck, Philosophy and Government, 1572-1651 (1993), p. 188; Google Books.
  7. ^ (in Italian) treccani.it page

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