Lewis Du Moulin (''Ludovicus Molinaeus''; pseudonym: ''Ludiomaeus Colvinus''; 1606–1680) was a French

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physician and controversialist, who settled in England. He became

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at the

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Life

He was born in Paris, the son of theologian

Pierre Du Moulin Pierre Du Moulin ( Latinized as Petrus Molinaeus; 16 October 1568 – 10 March 1658) was a Huguenot minister in France who also resided in England for some years. Life Born in Buhy in 1568, he was the son of Joachim Du Moulin, a Protestant mini ...

, and brother of Wolfgang Du Mulin,

Peter Du Moulin Peter du Moulin (1601–1684) was a French-English Anglican clergyman, son of the Huguenot pastor Pierre du Moulin and brother of Lewis du Moulin. He was the anonymous author of , published at The Hague in 1652, a royalist work defending Salma ...

. He qualified M.D. at the

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, and came to England to practice medicine as a young man. He was a moderate critic of

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, identified as an

Erastian Thomas Erastus (original surname Lüber, Lieber, or Liebler; 7 September 152431 December 1583) was a Swiss physician and Calvinist theologian. He wrote 100 theses (later reduced to 75) in which he argued that the sins committed by Christians shou ...

. He was on good terms with John Owen and

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, but also Joseph Hall. He obtained the Camden Professorship in 1646 after petitioning Parliament. He was ejected from the position in 1660.Trevor Henry Aston, Nicholas Tyacke (editors), ''The History of the University of Oxford: Volume IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford'' (1984), pp. 348–9.

Works

*''Vox populi'' (1641) as Irenaus Philadelphus *''Aytomaxia, or, the self-contradiction of some that contend about church-government'' (1643) as Ireneus Philalethes *''The power of the Christian magistrate in sacred things'' (1650) *''Morum exemplar seu caracteres'' (1654) *''Paraenesis ad aedificatores imperii in imperio'' (1656) *''Of the Right of Churches'' (1658) *''Kern der Alchemie'' (1750
Digital edition
by the

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References

*Concise Dictionary of National Biography

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Du Moulin, Lewis 1606 births 1680 deaths 17th-century English medical doctors 17th-century French physicians French Protestants Erastians Camden Professors of Ancient History