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Born March 18, 1890 • The Hague • Netherlands
Died November 18, 1950 (aged 60) • Utrecht • Netherlands
Cornelis Petrus Tiele
Dutch theologian
Daniel Ernst Jablonski
German theologian
Johannes Cocceius
German theologian
Gisbertus Voetius
Dutch theologian
John Calvin
John Calvin
French theologian
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Karl Barth
Karl Barth
Swiss theologian
Theodore Beza
Theodore Beza
French theologian
Jacobus Arminius
Dutch theologian
Emil Brunner
Swiss theologian
Schaff, engraving by J.J. Cade
Philip Schaff
American theologian
Willem Adolph Visser ’t Hooft
Dutch theologian
Ames, William
William Ames
English theologian
Thomas à Kempis
clergyman
St. Peter Canisius
Jesuit scholar
Franciscus Gomarus
Franciscus Gomarus
Dutch theologian
Adolphe-Théodore Monod, lithograph by Étienne Rey.
Adolphe-Théodore Monod
French clergyman
Henry Ainsworth
British theologian
Claude Pajon
French theologian
Florentius Radewyns
Dutch theologian