- First name
- Friedrich
- Last name
- Spanheim
- Date of Birth
- 1632
- Date of Death
- 1701
- Born in
- Geneva
- Died in
- Leiden
Friedrich Spanheim was the son of the German polemicist and theologian Friedrich Spanheim (1600–49). He took out (1655) his doctoral degree in Theology, and held a Leiden chair of theology (1 November 1670) in succession to Johannes Coccejus. A prolific writer, Spanheim published Summa historiae ecclesiasticae, … (Leiden, 1689) and Controversiarum de religione cum dissidentibus hodie christianis, … (Amsterdam, 1694). In the appendix of the latter compendium of Christian controversies and sects, he qualifies Spinoza as a pseudo-philosopher, a libertine rationalist and anti-scripturist (pp. 622–3 and 638–9). See: NNBW, vol. 10, cols 955–6; BLGNP, vol. 2, pp. 411–3; Drüll, 1991, pp 144–5.