Education
University of Franeker.
theologian university professor
University of Franeker.
In 1636 he was transferred to Franeker, where he held the chair of Hebrew, and from 1643 the chair of theology also, until 1650, when he succeeded the elder Friedrich Spanheim as professor of theology at the University of Leiden. His chief services as an oriental scholar were in the department of Hebrew philology and exegesis. He taught that before as much as after the fall of man, the relation between God and man was a covenant.
The first covenant was a Covenant of His most distinguished pupil was Campeius Vitringa.