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Petrus Serrarius (Peter Serrarius, Pieter Serrurier, Pierre Serrurier, Pieter Serrarius, Petro Serario, Petrus Serarius; 1600, London – buried October 1, 1669,[2] Amsterdam) was a millenarian theologian, writer, and also a wealthy merchant, who established himself in Amsterdam in 1630, and was active there until his death. He was born "into a well-to-do Walloon merchant family by name of Serrurier in London."[3] He has been called "the dean of the dissident Millenarian theologians in Amsterdam".[4]
He studied at Christ Church, Oxford from 1617 to 1619, and at the Walloon College in Leiden from 1620 to 1623.[5] The French speaking college was then a part of the new Leiden University, where Serrarius met John Dury, and they remained closely associated, right up to Serrarius' own death in 1669.[6]
- ^ Stronks, Els. "Never to Coincide: the Identities of Dutch Protestants and Dutch Catholics in Religious Emblematics, Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, Vol3.2. DOI: 10.5092/jhna.2011.3.2.1". jhna.org. doi:10.5092/jhna.2011.3.2.1. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
.. the Amsterdam publisher Salomon Savrij...produced copies of copperplate engravings originally made for a 1628 Latin edition of Hugo's Pia Desideria published by Henrick van Hastens in Antwerp. The new title engraving for Hastens's edition, less erudite and more emotional than the original title engraving Boetius à Bolswert made for the 1624 edition of Pia Desideria, was also reused by Savrij... a second Dutch translation of Herman Hugo's Pia Desideria, titled Goddelycke aandachten (Divine Meditations), in 1653, by the Dutch mystic and chiliast Petrus Serrarius.
- ^ van der Wall, Ernestine G. E., De mystieke chiliast Petrus Serrarius (1600-1669) en zijn wereld, Leiden 1987, page 610-611. She states that Serrarius probably died of the pest.
- ^ Ernestine G. E. van der Wall (1988), "The Amsterdam Millenarian Petrus Serrarius (1600-1669) and the Anglo-Dutch Circle of Philo-Judaists", p. 74; Johannes van den Berg (1977), "Quaker and Chiliast: The Contrary Thoughts of William Ames and Petrus Serrarius," p. 186, states:
- Serrarius ... was born in London, where he was baptized as Pierre Serrurier in the French church of Threadneele Street on 11 May 1600.
- ^ Richard H. Popkin (1986), "Some New Light on the Roots of Spinoza's Science of Bible Study," p. 177.
- ^ van der Wall (1988), p. 74; van den Berg (1977), pp. 186-187
- ^ van den Berg (1977), p. 75.