- First name
- Johannes Theodoor
- Last name
- Braun
- Date of Birth
- 1628
- Date of Death
- 1708
- Born in
- Leipzig
- Died in
- Leipzig
Johannes Theodoor Braun studied theology (1654) in Leiden under Johannes Coccejus. He was Walloon minister in Delft and Nijmegen (1661–80). Braun earned a reputation with Vestitus sacerdotum hebraeorum (1680) which would lead to his appointment as professor of Hebrew and theology in Groningen (in succession to Jacob Alting). Braun crossed swords with the Voetian reformer Johannes a Marck (1656–1731) on the implications of Cocceianism. In 1702, he published Futilis spinozismi depulsionis nominatim circa corporis peccata & poenas … depulsio necessaria (Groningen, 1702), in which he replies Spinosismi depulsio, nominatim circa corporis peccata et poenas, … (Groningen, 1702). In the latter work, Paulus Hulsius (1653–1712) rebuts a spinozist proposition—maintaining that the body does not sin and acquires no moral virtue—put forward by mathematician Johann Bernoulli (1667–1748). See: NNBW, vol. 6, cols 189–91; Steenbakkers, 1977; DDP, vol. 2, pp. 151–2.