Jan Pieterszoon Beelthouwer () was a Dutch

Collegiant In Christian history, the Collegiants (; ), also called Collegians, were an association, founded in 1619 among the Arminians and Anabaptists in Holland. They were so called because of their colleges (meetings) held the first Sunday of each month, ...

controversialist of unorthodox beliefs from

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. He propagated

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views. From around 1644 he had public debates with

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, Jacob Judah Leon and

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, Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam. He was regarded as a heretic in Enkhuizen from 1656. He wrote against the conservative

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apothecary Lambert Bidloo.GAMEO page
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''Jan Pieterszoon Beelthouwer (ca.1603-ca.1669) en de Joden''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Beelthouwer, Jan Pieterszoon 1603 births 1665 deaths Dutch Unitarians People from Enkhuizen