DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11085203
title: The Collegiants in Rotterdam

description: Rotterdam was one of the Dutch cities where the Nonconformist religious group known as the Collegiants began to meet. This dataset lists the names of people known to have attended meetings of this group, either occasionally or regularly. The list has been compiled using primary sources, such as the minutes of the consistory of the Reformed Church in Rotterdam and other documents from the Collegiants found in the Amsterdam City Archive. Biographical data for each name has been collected via the database OpenArchieven.nl.
description: Methodology

This dataset hase been compiled from two main sources: the minutes books of the Reformed consistory of Rotterdam and the archive of the orphanage "de Oranjeappel." These documents can now be found in the Stadsarchief in Rotterdam and in the Amsterdam city archive. Only the names of those who were mentioned in these documents as attending the meetings of the Collegiants in Rotterdam were included in the dataset. This means that additional names could be found by widening the number of sources. This also means that some of names usually associated with the Rotterdam College in the historiography are not listed here, unless they also appear in the sources mentioned. On the other hand, in some cases it has been decided to include unnamed persons in order to show the bias and the difficulties a research faces when dealing with these types of sources.

As for the biographical data for each name, these have been collected via the database OpenArchieven. This means that this dataset relies only on digitalized documents whose records have been included in OpenArchieven. In other words, further research in Dutch archives may provide additional biographical information for each of the names listed. This dataset should not be regarded as conclusive, but rather as the beginning of a more comprehensive understanding of the Collegiant movement in Amsterdam.

Notes

It should also be noted that:



When transcribing manuscript sources, the abbreviations have been resolved in square brackets, while the spelling of words and names has been left as in the original document;

In some cases, it has been decided not to transcribe an entire document, but only the passages relevant to the aims of this dataset.

Some of the manuscripts are numbered in folios, others in pages. Accordingly, it is possible to find references both to folio numbers (with "r" and "v" for recto and verso) and page numbers. If neither the folio number nor the page number is given, the dates of the document are given.

In some cases, a person's profession has not been translated into English, but the original Dutch word for that profession is given. This is because there is no equivalent in the English language and a circumlocution would be necessary to explain this profession.

In the "Source" column, it is reported only the document that mentions the first proven presence in a College of the person in question.


List of abbreviations



ACA: Amsterdam City Archive, followed by access number and inventory number (i.e. ACA 376/8, p. 83: Amstercam City Archive, access no. 376, inventory no. 8, p. 83).

SAR: Stadsarchief Rotterdam, followed by access number and inventory number (i.e. SAR 23-01/3, 29 December 1649: Stadsarchief Rotterdam, access no. 23-01, inventory no. 3, document dated 29 December 1649).

HUA: Het Utrechtsarchief, followed by access number and inventory number (i.e. HUA 711/126, p. 753: Het Utrechtsarchief, access no. 711, inventory no. 126, p. 753).

EL: Erfgoed Leiden en omstreken archief, followed by access number and inventory number (i.e. EL 700/1219, 28-05-1717: Erfgoed Leiden en omstreken archief, access no. 700, inventory no. 1219, document dated 28-05-1717):

BWPG: Biographisch woordenboek van protestantsche godgeleerden in Nederland, 6 vols., 1907-1949.

NNBW:Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek, 10 vols., 1911-1937;

BLNP: Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands protestantisme, 6 vols, 1978-2006.

RDK: RKD Research. Wetenschappelijk platform voor kunsthistorisch onderzoek

GAMEO: Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online.

Lidmaten Lam&Toren: list of the membership of the Lamist Mennonite congregation, which can now be found at the library of the Faculteit Religien en Theologie, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.