Lodewijk Meyer

Jan van der Heyden: View of Oudezijds Voorburgwal with the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, 1670. Bierkaai (beer quay) where Meyer was born in 1629.
(Anonymous, Lodewijk Meijer): Philosophia S. Scripturae interpres, "1674". Published in one book together (convolute) with Benedictus de Spinoza's here also anonymous Tractatus theologico-politicus. Added in handwriting: "Benedicto de Spinosâ".
Lodewijk Meyer: De materia, ejusque affectionibus motu, et quiete, dissertation Leiden University, 1660.

Lodewijk Meyer (also Meijer) (bapt. 18 October 1629, Amsterdam – buried 25 November 1681, Amsterdam) was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, translator, lexicographer, and playwright. He was a radical intellectual and one of the more prominent members of the circle around the philosopher Benedictus de Spinoza.[1][2]

He is generally considered the author of an anonymous work, the Philosophia S. Scripturae Interpres, although there are indications that his friend Johannes Bouwmeester may have been the co-author or even the author.[3] It was initially attributed to Spinoza, and caused a furor among preachers and theologians, with its claims that the Bible was in many places opaque and ambiguous; and that philosophy was the only criterion for interpretation of cruxes in such passages. Just after the death of Meyer his friends revealed that he was the author of the work, which had been banned by the Court of Holland together with Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus in 1674.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Meyer, Lodewijk - The Spinoza Web". spinozaweb.org. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  2. ^ Lagrée, Jacqueline (2001). Ad captum auditoris loqui: theology and tolerance in Lodewijk Meyer and Spinoza. Mededelingen vanwege het Spinozahuis. Vol. 79. Delft: Eburon. ISBN 978-90-5166-847-6.
  3. ^ Mertens, Frank (2017-01-01), "Van den Enden and Religion", in Lavaert, Sonja; Schröder, Winfried (eds.), The Dutch Legacy: Radical Thinkers of the 17th Century and the Enlightenment, BRILL, pp. 62–89, doi:10.1163/9789004332089_005, ISBN 978-90-04-33207-2 See note 4.
  4. ^ "Meyer Spinoza | University Press | Marquette University". www.marquette.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  5. ^ Michiel R. Wielema, ed. (2011). Adriaan Koerbagh, A Light Shining in Dark Places, to Illuminate the Main Questions of Theology and Religion. Brill. p. 6. ISBN 9789004214583.