Abraham Aurelius

Abraham Aurelius (1575 – 1632) was an English pastor of the French Protestant church in London.

Abraham Aurelius
1631 engraving of Abraham Aurelius by Robert van Voerst
Born1575 (1575)
Died1632 (aged 56–57)
OccupationProtestant minister

He was a son of John Baptist Aurelius, also a Protestant minister, probably in London, where Abraham was born. He studied at Leyden, in the Low Countries, and took his degree there in 1596.[1] He kept up a correspondence with Gerardus Vossius.[2]

In 1613, on the occasion of the marriage of Frederick V, count palatine, and Elizabeth, daughter of James I, he published a Latin epithalamium. He died in the beginning of 1632, whilst his Latin paraphrase on the Book of Job was in the press; the dedication of the work to Albert Joachim, Belgian ambassador at the Court of St. James, bears his signature, but the paraphrase itself is preceded by some Latin verses in praise of the deceased pastor.

References
  1. "Aurelius, Abraham" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  2. (in Dutch) C. S. M. Rademaker, Leven en werk van Gerardus Joannes Vossius (1577–1649) (1999), p. 79; Google Books.
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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Aurelius, Abraham". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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