Lewis Du Moulin
Lewis Du Moulin (Ludovicus Molinaeus; pseudonym: Ludiomaeus Colvinus; 1606–1680) was a French Huguenot physician and controversialist, who settled in England. He became Camden Professor of History at the University of Oxford.
Life[]
He was born in Paris, the son of theologian Pierre Du Moulin, and brother of , Peter Du Moulin. He qualified M.D. at the University of Leiden, and came to England to practice medicine as a young man.[1][2]
He was a moderate critic of episcopacy, identified as an Erastian. He was on good terms with John Owen and Richard Baxter, but also Joseph Hall.[3]
He obtained the Camden Professorship in 1646 after petitioning Parliament. He was ejected from the position in 1660.[4]
Works[]
- Vox populi (1641) as Irenaus Philadelphus
- Aytomaxia, or, the self-contradiction of some that contend about church-government (1643) as Ireneus Philalethes
- The power of the Christian magistrate in sacred things (1650)
- Morum exemplar seu caracteres (1654)
- Paraenesis ad aedificatores imperii in imperio (1656)
- Of the Right of Churches (1658)
- Kern der Alchemie (1750) Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
References[]
- Concise Dictionary of National Biography
Notes[]
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654 1660 by David Masson - page 22". Knowncrafts.net. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
- ^ Anne Dunan-Page, The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750 (2006), p. 64-5.
- ^ Trevor Henry Aston, Nicholas Tyacke (editors), The History of the University of Oxford: Volume IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford (1984), p. 348-9.
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