Background
He was born in Schiedam, where his father Petrus Taurinus was a preacher of the Reformed Church.
He was born in Schiedam, where his father Petrus Taurinus was a preacher of the Reformed Church.
He studied theology at the University of Leiden from 14 November 1590, under Franciscus Junius the Elder, Lucas Trelcatius, Petrus Bertius and Franciscus Gomarus. And associated with Willem van Zyll, Karl Ryckewaert, Everardus Booth, Johann Narsius, Eduardus Poppius, and Simon Goulart the Younger.
In 1600 Taurinus took the post of lecturer in the ‘t Woud parish of Delft. In the following year he had a call to Delftshaven, and in 1605 to Utrecht. There he collaborated with Gilles van Ledenberg.
In 1617 a polemical pamphlet involved Taurinus in serious political trouble, it having offended James I of England.
The political changes of 1618, in which Maurice of Nassau took control, made him leave the Netherlands, and he died that year at Antwerp with Johannes Wtenbogaert.