Wilhelmus Wilhelmius
Wilhelmus Wilhelmius (1720–1771) was a Dutch minister, mathematician and philosopher.
Life[]
He was baptised on 19 March 1720 in Rotterdam, son of Johannes Wilhelmius, a minister, and grandson of the philosopher . He matriculated at the University of Leiden in 1735, and graduated at the University of Utrecht in 1739. His dissertation, under , was on the mind-body problem.[1]
In 1742 he travelled to England and became a Fellow of the Royal Society, with an introduction from Petrus van Musschenbroek. On his return in 1743 he became a minister in Lekkerkerk. After some other positions he settled in Middelburg in 1749.
He married Aletta Maria van den Brande in 1751, and she brought him a large fortune. They bought an estate at Brakel.
References[]
- (in Dutch) NNBW entry
- Wiep van Bunge et al. (editors), The Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers (2003), Thoemmes Press (two volumes), article Wilhelmius, Wilhelmus, p. 1082-3.
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Categories:
- 1720 births
- 1771 deaths
- 18th-century Dutch philosophers
- 18th-century Dutch Calvinist and Reformed ministers
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Clergy from Rotterdam
- Utrecht University alumni