Jan Pietersz Beelthouwer
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Jan Pieterszoon Beelthouwer (c.1603—c.1665) was a Dutch Collegiant controversialist of unorthodox beliefs from Enkhuizen
Enkhuizen
Enkhuizen is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia.Enkhuizen was one of the harbour-towns of the VOC, just like Hoorn and Amsterdam, from where overseas trade with the East Indies was conducted. It received city rights in 1355...

. He propagated Socinian views.

From around 1644 he had public debates with Isaac Montalto, Jacob Judah Leon and Menasseh ben Israel
Menasseh Ben Israel
Manoel Dias Soeiro , better known by his Hebrew name Menasseh Ben Israel , was a Portuguese rabbi, kabbalist, scholar, writer, diplomat, printer and publisher, founder of the first Hebrew printing press in Amsterdam in...

, Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam. He was regarded as a heretic in Enkhuizen from 1656. He wrote against the conservative Mennonite
Mennonite
The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named after the Frisian Menno Simons , who, through his writings, articulated and thereby formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders...

 apothecary Lambert Bidloo.

External links

NNBW page Jan Pieterszoon Beelthouwer (ca.1603-ca.1669) en de Joden
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