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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 11:23:08 +0100
From:         George Welling <welling@FREYA.LET.RUG.NL>
Subject:      Re: De Marees
              Jan 6, 93 09:21:33 am

> The quotation mentioning "de Marees" indicates him as a
> theologian of strongly worded opinions. A possible candidate
> for this role is listed in Biographie Universelle ou
> Dictionnaire Historique, Paris, Furne 1833 :
>
>   Desmarets (Samuel), en latin Maresius, eocrivain et
>   ministre protestant, neo a` Oisemont en Picardie l'an
>   1599, mort a` Groningue en 1673, se livra a si bonne heure
>   a` l'eotude, qu'avant l'aoge de 7 ans il avait deoja lu
>   deux fois la Bible en entier.  Desmarets professa
>   successivement la theoologie a` Seodan, a` Maestricht, a`
>   Bois-le-Duc, a` Franeker et a` Groningue.  C'eotait, dit
>   Burmann, un homme d'un eosprit vif, et d'une eorudition
>   profonde, mais d'un caracte`re virulent, et qui ne
>   meonageait pas assez les personnes tout en attaquant les
>   opinions.  Desmarets a publieo un treos-grand nombre
>   d'ouvrages de theoologie et de controverse, dont on peu
>   voir la liste dans les Meomoires de Niceron, qui en compte
>   plus de 100; son collegium theologicum sive breve systema
>   universae theologiae, a eu 4 e'ditions, 1645, 1649, 1656,
>   1673 in-4.  Il donna avec Desmarets (Nicolas), son fils
>   ai^neo, ministre a` Delft, une eodition de la Ste-Bible
>   franc,.  de la version de Gene`ve, Amsterdam, Elzevir,
>   1669,, 2 vol.  in-fol.
>
> Thus this Desmarets was remembered also 50 years after
> Riem's article. However, in order to conclude that Riem
> had in mind this Samuel Desmarets, we ought to know more
> about the discussions in contemporary journals whose readers
> Riem obviously assumed to know whom he meant.
>
> May this correspondent ask why Andreas Riem is considered
> important enough to be tranlated ?
>
> Walter Felscher, Tuebingen
>
Walter's comment made me very curious about this man, so I looked it up in a
dutch encyclopedia and he probably is very right.
Samuel Maresius (Desmarets and sometimes De Maret) became a minister of the
Dutch reformed Church of Groningen in 1643, when he also became professor in
Theology at this university. He was a follower of Gomarus, an extreme orthodox
school of thinking in the Dutch reformed church. He was fond of a fight (with
words that is) and vehemently attacked Lutherans, Roman Catholics, Socinians.
And in the end he even had a fight with Voetius, with who he had fought the
followers of Cartesius and Coccejus before (these favoured the suppremacy of
the state over the church, while Maresius liked it the other way around).
Maresius was an extreme believer in "infralapsism", one of the more stricter
forms of believe in predestination.
If there was a theologic debate in his days, Maresius would make sure that his
point of view on the issue would be heard. (Must have been a really irritating
person, I am afraid.)

The only other De Marees I found were two painters, of whom only George de
Marees (1677-1776) is from about the same period. This was a rococco-painter,
originally from Sweden, who went to Munich (via Amsterdam). But there is no
mention of his bad temper. The other De Marees is from the 19th century.

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