- First name
- Gisbertus
- Last name
- Voetius
- Date of Birth
- 1589
- Date of Death
- 1676
- Born in
- Heusden
- Died in
- Utrecht
Gisbertus Voetius studied theology at the Statencollege in Leiden. He became professor of theology and oriental languages in Utrecht (1634). He was an orthodox Calvinist adherent of Greek Aristotelian philosophy and opponent of Cocceian theology and of Cartesianism. This brought him in 1642 into a serious conflict with Descartes during the so-called ‘Utrecht crisis’ which ultimately led to a ban on Cartesian philosophy. See: NNBW, vol. 7, cols 1279–82; BLGNP, vol. 2, pp. 111–3; Duker, 1989; DDP, vol. 2, pp. 1030–39.